Re: How did Magic weekend Go? : Tue May 24, 2016 12:31 pm  

Personally I've always been put off Newcastle by travel cost and expensive hotels. If it looks like it's going to stay there for years, though, I *might* try it in the next year or two. But it's just a fluke of geography, really; fans in the North-East and Scotland obviously are going to find Newcastle much more convenient. I'm used to travelling up to Wigan for games, and when the MW was at the Etihad, I stayed overnight in Wigan as I usually do. It's not a long journey by motorbike on a warm summer evening, and, as noted, the stadium is in a rather wasteland area of Manchester.

Cardiff (just an hour away) is definitely my favourite, though!

Re: How did Magic weekend Go? : Tue May 24, 2016 12:49 pm  

goobervision wrote:

Camp Nou - OK, it's a long trip but flights can be pretty cheap as can hotels, major city in a sunny place different culture etc. Should pull in a few from Catalan too.

Unfortunately between Barcelona and Marseilles there aren't many stadiums above 30k capacity and a local airport.

The Olympic stadium in Barca holds 54k. Wire played Catalans a few years back there .

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: How did Magic weekend Go? : Tue May 24, 2016 1:07 pm  

B0NES wrote:

The Olympic stadium in Barca holds 54k. Wire played Catalans a few years back there .

They only sold non alcoholic beer, and didn't tell us either


I'm not a fan of newcastle, the stadium, agree that all the stuff outside and in the local area seems to be geared up to welcome visitors, but watching the game i felt like i was at odsal, that far back and that far up, plus you don't feel like your sat together with your fans, certainly not where warrington have been 'allocated' this last two years.

Re: How did Magic weekend Go? : Tue May 24, 2016 1:57 pm  

Surprised at people saying you couldn't move around the ground! You could.

Only the reserved stand had restrictions.

Re: How did Magic weekend Go? : Tue May 24, 2016 4:04 pm  

dboy wrote:

Surprised at people saying you couldn't move around the ground! You could.

Only the reserved stand had restrictions.

This absolutely, I watched out game with Wakey fans (obv) spent 1st half of next game with Saints fans in same stand.

Then for the Hull derby i spent the 1st half with FC fans, but they were too drunk and rowdy for me and so went and sat with the KR fans for the 2nd half.

Re: How did Magic weekend Go? : Tue May 24, 2016 4:25 pm  

It should be held at Hillsborough, easier/closer for fans from ALL clubs to get to as well as consideration for those of us not living in the heartlands and a 10 hour round trip drive to places like Newcastle.
The stadium has the required capacity and if the RFL sort out the games so they don't finish too late on a Sunday as they have this year then using the trains is less of an issue.
I also think the tickets are far too cheap, it continues to devalue the sport, £10 for a concession ticket two full days or £25 for a full priced adult ticket is ridiculous.

Re: How did Magic weekend Go? : Tue May 24, 2016 4:58 pm  

whats it done for gateshead thunders crowds? are the geordies going to watch them ?!

not really.

back to manchester for me.

but if we want to continue with this spread the game theme then maybe coventry next... do Ireland deserve magic weekend too?

Re: How did Magic weekend Go? : Tue May 24, 2016 5:38 pm  

brearley84 wrote:

whats it done for gateshead thunders crowds? are the geordies going to watch them ?!

not really.

back to manchester for me.

but if we want to continue with this spread the game theme then maybe coventry next... do Ireland deserve magic weekend too?

You do realise that cities pay millions of pounds to host this event? It's not just some whimsical idea from the RFL to give a minor boost to the local semi pro team.

BTW you don't even know what Newcastle (not Gateshead) Thunder's crowds are, do you? Even though it's ridiculous to expect there to be any type of increase or even try to measure any increase based on a single one-off event, they could've received a massive boost and you wouldn't even know, you don't even know what the team is called.

Re: How did Magic weekend Go? : Tue May 24, 2016 5:49 pm  

brearley84 wrote:

whats it done for gateshead thunders crowds? are the geordies going to watch them ?!

not really.

back to manchester for me.

but if we want to continue with this spread the game theme then maybe coventry next... do Ireland deserve magic weekend too?

Having it at the emptyhad hardly helped Salfords crowds did it

Regards

King james

Re: How did Magic weekend Go? : Tue May 24, 2016 7:54 pm  

If the RFL had any sense they'd get Newcastle and Manchester to enter a bidding war (both cash and marketing spend) and get the cash in, no doubt they'I'll have some other random idea though!