Magic Weekend 2019 - Suncorp

[Loose Cannon]

Watch the NRL allocate the Broncos an "away" game.

 

[Marlins]

I’m excited for this. Thank f**k it’s over 3 days and not on a Thursday.

 

[beave]

Watch the NRL allocate the Broncos an "away" game.

Penalty Broncos.

 

[Captain Apollo]

A bunch of teams whose fans dont turn up. Parra v Souths got about 5000 fans on thursday. Take that game somewhere else.

So you think Souths v Parra played at Suncorp in Brisbane will draw a bigger crowd?

 

[Diesel]

Watch the NRL allocate the Broncos an "away" game.

With the amount of away games in Sydney for Sydney teams, it should be 8 Sydney teams having home games against the other 7 non-Sydney teams and one Sydney v Sydney match

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Nrl will work out a way to count this as 1 game at with a 200k crowd

 

[Diesel]

Nrl will work out a way to count this as 1 game at with a 200k crowd

So they’ll use the AFL crowd calculator?

 

[T-Boon]

So you think Souths v Parra played at Suncorp in Brisbane will draw a bigger crowd?

As part of magic weekend....totally.

 

[Raiderdave]

Broncos V Manly as the 8pm Friday night game just announced

 

[DC_fan]

Nrl will work out a way to count this as 1 game at with a 200k crowd

Actually some here (not I) will suggest that it will be eight games of 52,000 each. Giving a weekend total attendance of 416,000.

That would considerably boost eight teams season crowd average. There could be a fight between teams, to be named the home team that weekend.

 

[Diesel]

Broncos V Manly as the 8pm Friday night game just announced

Friday night Broncos strike again guaranteeing the team playing on Friday 12 months out and before the draw is even made

 

[Raiderdave]

Actually some here (not I) will suggest that it will be eight games of 52,000 each. Giving a weekend total attendance of 416,000.

That would considerably boost eight teams season crowd average. There could be a fight between teams, to be named the home team that weekend.

no
the NRL method
it'll be 3 .. events .. with a total attendance of 156K or whatever it ends up divided into the total season aggregate
not 400K plus

it should be 156K divided by 8 & some sites will report it this way & in my opinion it should be this way.

 

[jim_57]

3 reasons why this really works in Super League.

1. It is one of few "events" in the calender that can draw 30k+ outside of the 2 major finals and sporadic internationals.
2. Fans are for the most part very close geographically and these weekends aren't much travel for 90%+ of fans.
3. It is an extra round so no team loses a home game.

Literally none of those apply to Australia/NRL. Who are the lucky 8 teams who are forced to move a home game? You can be sure too that games places like Bathurst, Mudgee, Adelaide, Toowoomba etc are the ones who will lose games out of this by knock-on effect.

Only way I think this could be a good idea would be to have "Magic" for one off events like opening new stadiums, even then 8 games is too much.

Allianz
Manly, Roosters, Sharks & Dragons all host a home game, 2 Double headers over Saturday & Sunday.

ANZ
Tigers V Dragons, Souths V Roosters - Saturday
Penrith V Manly, Bulldogs V Eels - Sunday

 

[Marlins]

Broncos V Manly as the 8pm Friday night game just announced

Where does it say that?

 

[The Marshall]

What’s the point in doing this? It’s in Brisbane so it’s not growing the game and unless you were traveling to watch your team in the first place I doubt this would change your mind.

 

[Raiderdave]

Where does it say that?

Ch 9 confirmed it on their sports sunday show this morning

 

[DIOGENES]

3 reasons why this really works in Super League.

1. It is one of few "events" in the calender that can draw 30k+ outside of the 2 major finals and sporadic internationals.
2. Fans are for the most part very close geographically and these weekends aren't much travel for 90%+ of fans.
3. It is an extra round so no team loses a home game.

Literally none of those apply to Australia/NRL. Who are the lucky 8 teams who are forced to move a home game? You can be sure too that games places like Bathurst, Mudgee, Adelaide, Toowoomba etc are the ones who will lose games out of this by knock-on effect.

Only way I think this could be a good idea would be to have "Magic" for one off events like opening new stadiums, even then 8 games is too much.

Allianz
Manly, Roosters, Sharks & Dragons all host a home game, 2 Double headers over Saturday & Sunday.

ANZ
Tigers V Dragons, Souths V Roosters - Saturday
Penrith V Manly, Bulldogs V Eels - Sunday

2. Fans are for the most part very close geographically and these weekends aren't much travel for 90%+ of fans.

Isn't there a proposal to take Magic Weekend to New York?
That's a long way from Wigan

 

[beave]

Super Rugby have the Reds playing NSW at Suncorp that saturday (18th May).


Awkwaaaaaaaaaaard.

 

[jim_57]

2. Fans are for the most part very close geographically and these weekends aren't much travel for 90%+ of fans.

Isn't there a proposal to take Magic Weekend to New York?
That's a long way from Wigan

Maybe, a proposal doesn't really mean much though. Magic weekend is the wrong event to take too far away from the UK for that reason. There are plenty of nore reasonable options for promotional games in New York and there are plenty of better options if the NRL wants to give Brisbane more games, like, I dunno, a second team?

 

[DIOGENES]

Super Rugby have the Reds playing NSW at Suncorp that saturday (18th May).


Awkwaaaaaaaaaaard.

By then I hope RU will be lucky to be able to use Ballymore