Attendance for todays 3 games 29627, e or what!!!

a merged thred awaits

Don't think it's that bad really. If the same 3 games were played at harlequins, wakey and wigan there'd only have been a similar cumulative amount.

and that is so not the point!
and probably not true.


its total farce is the magic weekend, and a bad advert for the sport, in all honesty our game was played in an almost pre season atmos.

and sky angles are hiolarious i dont think they have panned out to top tier yet!

it doesnt work and never has scrap it now!

It would be nice to know how many where regular followers and how many where paying locals.

Anyone new to the game would have been watching and wondering if the magic refered to some magician fella making the spectators dissapear!!!!!

especially that bit from what ive heard from a mate whos up there!

bet your glad you have now booked for france and not this weekend

hehehe
have i????
oh yes i have havnt i?

was talking about kinley cat going to france

I dont think the attendance is that bad tbh. salford v quins would have attracted a crowd no bigger than 3000. Your match v Bradford only got 6500 easter Monday and Wigan v saints around 20k so the combined attendance is about right.

Plus im pretty sure there was a smaller crowd for the first day last year. Its a weekend away and a chance for rugby league to show how great the fans are look at all the supporters of different clubs together having a great time. If anything it is a great advert for the game.

This is the 3rd year of this weekend and the crowd seems to be growing every year i remember the first grand final only attracting aroud 40k and it grew every year and now its a sell out. If we give the magic weekend a chance i believe the same will happen.

and you are sat where?

you realy really really think mm is ever going to get 70k fans?

Why not if word spreads what a great weekend is i believe it will grow evey year. Your saying scrap it when the concept is clearly getting more popular. These things take time.

Also your forgetting there are 4 games tommorow so dont be suprised if the crowd is pushing 40k.

As for where im sat im at home buddy due to reasons beyond my control i havent been able to make this year i planned on been there and even purchased tickets. However i was there last year and will be there next year.

The real issue is the publicity for the sport, and a nice weekend away for those who could travel. You will never fill Murrayfield for a RL event unless you host the CC final there (and even then, it will depend on who's playing).

The problem with the Magic weekend attendence figure is that at no time during the day all the fans will have been in the ground at once.

i agree but theres 2 sorts of publicity good and adverse!
and frankly i dont think mm gets us type a

and gets us quite a lot of type b

What kind of publicity does playing in an empty stadium give us, yes it's a good up fair enough but it ain't good pr

Bella grazi, comrade bull

You got back very smartish from the game matey. Almost as fast as the silly opinions you have posted. Oh and fwiw how would you know if you havent been?

Well if fans get up there, say 3/4 k from each club and back the teams/players then the whole concept it will be fine, you can do the day for £35 if you want to, now i understand that some just can't find that money and have famillies to consider but i'll bet 500 plus Wakey fans spent that in the pub on Sat, the same ones who moan about £18 quid to get in at BV with a £3 quid bottle in their hand.

i thought we took a decent following, as we did to cardiff last year, went up on the day easy to get to 4 hours with a stop so fans have options if they get off there backsides. if they can watch in the pub then they could save up and go its a year away

the money people spend isnt the issue really, never can be for me after the amount i spent in canet du plage last year!

My issue is mainly the change in focus of what is what there for, originally it was for promotion of rl and over the weekend the focus became just how good it had been as an economic stimulus, so in essence we played 7 random games to stimulate scotlands economy?

and 10 million is a lot of cash, over 3 years its easily a purpose built rl stadium for the game as a whole, location, well you can argue that one for ever and a day.

If all the critics of the concept had their way we'd still be playing rugby union cos that new fangled "northern union" will never work!

True, but hey we are Wakey fans after all and we prefer the moan option

I couldn't afford to go Al, too much expense even at £35 on top of spending every week throughout the season to watch us, although I tried to watch it on telly and I have to say that the standard on show was very poor made worse by the lack of atmosphere that came over, I even found it difficult to get excited about our game, in fact I'm ashamed to say that I found the Cardiff v Leicester game more compelling, I would have been greatly disappointed had I spent money to go up there to watch having seen the lack of quality on show.

I've noticed somewhere on here, someone compared the MM weekend to the G/F and how long it took for that to build up to what it is, I think the point that they're missing is that at the time the only other expensive away day or weekend was for the CC final, now the MM weekend has got far too much to compete with in our own sport never mind everything else that families can find to do on a B/H. Can't see how they can possibly make this any bigger than it already is when they are depending solely on existing fans to support it.

BTW, I take it from the 27 text messages that the pork pies went down alright