safeway60 Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 The so called *Magic Weekend* is being held next season in rainy old Manchester. I could be wrong but wasn't the weekend meant to satiate the dreams of the expansionists? Holding the weekend in east Manchester couldn't in any way be called spreading the gospel in unkown lands unless of course the area has turned jungle and gone cannibalistic. Due to other commitments my spare time is an extended weekend and usually at that time of the year we go camping(please,no limp wrist jokes)May would be an ideal weekend for us to combine our interest in RL and sleeping beneath the stars but in east Manchester ? No way. They play tick with hatchets round there. I'm starting to think the hierarchy of the game has gone crackers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latchford Locks Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 I think(hope)that after the Wesh debacle, expansion is definitely on the backburner for a good long time. Guess the concept now is aimed at giving fans of all clubs a good day out in a great stadium especially those fans who follow sides that otherwise would never get the chance to play in a totally different "big occasion" setting with a decent crowd and atmosphere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safeway60 Posted November 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 I suspect the purpose of the weekend is mainly for the benefit of SkyTV...It gives them the opportunity to broadcast six games without the need to move the equipment around.The RL are the pipers, Sky calls the tune. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wireboy Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 I have only ever been to one of these and that was the first one in 2007 at Cardiff. It was a good weekend but I did think it was missing something. 12 teams (as it was at the time) couldn't fill a 75,000 stadium. I thought it made us look a little bit of a laughing stock. Maybe Manchester would be better. We wait and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theinsider Posted November 27, 2011 Report Share Posted November 27, 2011 The only reason they stage this event is so they can say the team that finishes top of the league are not the true champions because of an inbalance of home and away games - and to cream hundreds of thousands of pounds off supporters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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