well i was glad for the big screen. watched the leeds vs bradford game in the sun!



activities are good for the kids and should be kept. What I couldn't believe was seeing tons of people @ the stobart trucks zone.

If it as @ the Eithad it has to be after the EPL season has finished. They not gonna do it same weekend as CL final so I was just guessing it would be in July.

1. There is a bloody long time between the middle of May and July.
2. Man City only allowed us to use the pitch because it was being ripped up the next day.
3. If they are replacing the pitch again they will want to do it way before July.

my bad

I meant June.

Are you suggesting that the weather is sentient and deliberately makes itself worse if it knows there is a bank holiday?

For what it's worth, the weather has been really nice on that weekend in Manchester for 5 years. It's the one weekend I can speak with certainty about as it was a mate's daughter's 5th Birthday on Saturday, and every year I've had to go to help out at a party at a local cricket club and then we've ended up basking in the sun afterwards.

if this is to be a stand alone event, there needs to be something extra special about it. derby's, as much as everyone wants to see a close game don't always add up to that. the fairest way i can see is that if competition points are available, then you have to play your nearest rivals in the table. so 1st should play 2nd. 13th play 14th etc. however this is the add on game, its a stand alone, its a special event and therefore should have something extra up for grabs. if you are playing the nearest rivals in the table, how about an extra point which will really make every game worth winning.

Every game to be worth 10 "magic" points.

normal points for win-lose-draw but magic tries worth 8, magic goals worth 4, magic drop-goals worth 2 and gaz hock worth nothing

Yep, there's a window of 3 -4 weeks at the end of the season for City to put on events of this type and rock concerts (Coldplay next week) before the pitch is replaced. There's no chance of Magic Weekend being staged at the Etihad beyond mid June.

Force the people inside and they will not go. Very few fans have the appetite for several hours of non stop rugby. Switch off the big screens and they'll either head for the nearest pub, only turn up for their team's match, or not go in the first place.

Its the nature of the event. Either accept that there will always a large number outside the ground or dont bother with it.

To paraphrase the Chemical Brothers......

HERE WE GO!

They ought to get all the teams kitted up on the Saturday and draw two teams out five minutes before the kick off time of each game, the same on the Sunday. That would be fun.

The only pre planned act should be that Ganson referees the FC game

And how many dressing rooms does the average stadium have?

Have you never been to a local park on a Sunday morning, they use the bogs, backs of cars etc. If the will is there, we can make it happen

jumpers for goalposts..

Don't forget the dog $hit. Oh, the memories

Edited. Sorry, couldn't resist. (I'm still upset by Ganson)

All teams to remain inside their Stobart Truck/Trailer until their name is drawn , that'd get them focussed on the match



The trailers would just be reversed up to entrances at each end , and the players would just run out into the sunshine to meet their opponents

can you guarentee decent weather for the next 3 years!? bank holiday weather is usually known to be a damp squid in this country

Can you just leave ours locked in...

...thought they were last weekend...at least until they'd shipped too many points.

I think they should just get rid of it. The crowd is hardly much better than it was in Cardiff and that's with it being on the doorstep of most clubs. You have to ask what its purpose is really?

And yes, I didn't go, but that was as I had prior plans on the Sunday, and my team was playing on the Sunday, so I didn't want to go and not watch my team.

Obviously not, but I can confirm that the last four late May bank holiday weekends which apparently are known to be a damp squid (whatever one of those is) have actually been glorious; added to this year's non-bank holiday on the same weekend - just offering facts rather than wives tales. It's not a bad run of weather. The point remains that the weather doesn't actually take a turn for the worse just becasue a day is designated a bank holiday.

Have you ever been?