Please see below an email received from the Etihad Stadium this morning follwoing my follow up e.mail.

Thank you for your email and highlighting this website.
Please allow me to clarify, Food and drink is not allowed to be taken into the stadium unless it is for medical reasons. Drinking however will be allowed in the stands, and also supporters will get a wristband or stamp allowing them to re-enter the stadium if they choose to leave to smoke or to skip a game.
I apologise for any confusion this may have caused.
Kind Regards
Dean
Supporter Services

This clarifies the situation and I apologise for any confusion I may have created in my desire to inform people.

That rule about standing does it apply in unreserved seating

I just hope Trawlerman's misinformation hasn't put off any prospective fans, although I fear it has since I've already heard these rumours started on another website.

I was going to go but not after readiing what Trawlerman has put. I think it's an absolute disgrace!

Hotel cancelled, train tickets and entrance tickets binned

Bit disappointing about the food rules, will have to talk to our friendly GP ASAP for a letter for the older child.

There has to be a pass system as the fanzone & (non-rugby) entertainment is in city square.

The only thing the website doesn't make clear is regards city square. Is that Manchester (city square ) which is about 30mins walk towards the city centre?
Or is it (Manchester City) square which would be (hopefully)in the grounds of the Etihad stadium complex?

AFAIK City Square is the area behind the North Stand. There's some food and drink outlets and a big screen.

Just to back up what's been said, here's the reply I got from the RFL;

"In reply to your questions re the Magic Weekend.

Does your ticket allow re-entry into the ground - i.e. watch one game, go out of the stadium and the re-enter to watch the next game or the game after?

A pass out/return system will be operated on both event days allowing spectators to move between City Square

and the stadium bowl. Hand stamps will be issued.

Can you take alcoholic beverages purchased at the stadium into the viewing area?
Alcohol purchased in the stadium can be taken back to your seats in the stadium bowl.

Can you bring your own food and drink into the ground?

You are not allowed to bring your own food or drink into the stadium, only for health reasons."



Regards

Does anyone if the fanzone has beer tents or is a more kids/family orientated area.

Does anybody know if any buses are being put on from Manchester Victoria station to the stadium? If not its a 45 min walk.

It's a slightly shorter walk from Piccadilly Station. I think 45 minutes is an over estimate though.

Get a train to Ashburys its a ten minute walk
Picadilly to Ashburys its about 5 mins on the train but saves about 20 mins walk

I'm still reeling from the news that someone is considering watching the 1st and 3rd game on Saturday and NOT watching Warrington play. It's like being in Shea Stadium when the Beatles came to town and deciding to nip out for a fag.

Doubt it. Walk to Piccadilly and get the bus from there. Failing that, "Charles" it up and get a taxi. It's only money.

Cheers.

I got the 45 min walk from google maps.

I certainly wont be 'Charlsing' it, need to save my money for my £4 rat burger in the ground.

Is it FOOK, you're good but you're not THAT good, jesus you y fans need to get over yourselves, Beatles at the Shea in '65 was a once in a lifetime opportunity for some (despite the following years performance), you can watch a very good team in primrose & yellow play every week if you really wanted to but comparing it to one of the very best music groups of all time in an iconic stadia such as the shea is overegging your importance, you're not even the best team in SL atm

You Sir, have just made my day. They should put this post in the dictionary next the word "Whoosh".

If I were you, I'd delete your post before someone quotes it.

He's got a point though!

Those who attend early on Saturday need to be posting details of what they are allowed to take in. You never know, it might be different on the day.

Oh, that is an absolute whopper. Like, the sort of catch you used to get in the early internet days, before people wised up.

having tasted the stadium food before, i can assure you there are lots of health reasons for bringing your own

Quote away I say, life is too short to worry about anything said on this fora.
We can all play the irony card when it suits huh? Frankly I was half thinking that your fans are so far up your own s that one of you might actually think you were something special, given the bollox that comes out of some fans mouth's it wouldn't be the first nor the last time that some self important $h1te was spouted.
Still in the interests of completing the circle of irony & just to be sure I thought I'd wade in with a handful of my own you know just on the off chance and all that. I guess I made the classic faux pas of not using emoticons to show that my reply was ironic also?
Should one have used one of these

or indeed one of these

I'd hazard a guess that maybe that wouldn't even be enough for some of the afflicted here

Perhaps if the RFL could have been ar$ed to answer his email, he wouldn't have had to, quite legitimately, share the response from the Etihad on here.

This shouldn't take any more than a mouse click to answer - standard answer referring them to a web page listing stadium rules for the day. But then maybe that's a little more complicated than organizing a p-up in a brewery and thus beyond Mr. Wood's capability to sort out.

One superb reason for slipping away from the stadium (or even arriving late) are the excellent ale spots in the Northern Quarter.

One of the stewards works with me and he's looking forward to this event: he knows what rugby fans are like from Barton stewarding.

ROAR!!!

You didn't make the faux pas of not using emoticons. You made the faux pas of having no wit whatsoever and taking the suggestion that watching a Rugby League team was like watching the Beatles seriously. You then followed this up with a mega bite. You then made another one by not understanding what irony means and then you finished it off by claiming that you were being ironic.

You're right about one thing though - life is too short. Stop taking yourself and life so seriously and take your medicine.

Ground Rules

[i"With the exception of authorised press representatives holding official passes, the taking of photographs or cine/video photography inside the ground is prohibited."[/i

Was anyone planning on bringing a camera? Don't know whether to take mine now?