Quote ="Conroy"The first thing they need to sort is the format. Stick with the same as in 2010 for me.
The group games can be played as double headers with the group B/C game acting as the curtain raiser to group A. That would effectively give you:
Samoa v Tonga
England v NZ
Ireland v Wales
Aus v France/PNG
Make the tickets to the early games as cheap as possible and as accessible as possible. Also, don't play a game like PNG v America at a ground like Wigan. Play it at Widnes/Leigh etc. Decent ground and not too big. Get into schools early and give away tickets. Advertise the thing to people outside the RL community instead of telling guys like us when games we're already going too are (this is the biggest c0ck up with the magic weekend).'"
I agree that the 2010 format worked and I can see what you mean about the double headers. If we are going to go down that route then I think stadiums like Leigh should be ignored as too small. If you're going to have four teams playing on the same day, you need to be holding games in 20,000+ seater grounds, no excuses.
I wouldn't give too many free tickets away, not even to kids. I've never liked the idea of freebies as I think people value something more if they've had to pay for it, however cheap it may have been.
