Magic Weekend

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expense of who? The easiest way to do it goes 15 teams, two by rounds each, right? You want to keep Magic Weekend because it's already locked in.

So you just make, rather than Magic Weekend being a loop fixture, Magic Weekend is part of a 28-round season.

So you play everyone home and away.

Everyone gives up over the course of...

No one.

Because over the course of two seasons, everything evens out.

The only difference is the likes of Catalan and Toulouse, if they're doing it like they do this year, where they just play home and away, they're always guaranteed to be playing at Magic Weekend.

So...

Yeah, the weekend prior was Magic Weekend, wasn't it? And I was with Craig Lingard and we were talking about Jordan Abdul and we were talking about how he sort of sets the team up around him, knowing some of the strengths he's got with his people, but also some of his limitations.

It was really interesting to hear him talk about that.

How to get a six to play with him so that he does a little less running and all that kind of stuff and sort of preserves himself.

what a statement.

Um, and then the other moment I would say probably a bit different to what the guys have said was probably the Magic Weekend.

I just, I absolutely loved it there at Everton.

We're all waiting for fan-fans that were bouncing.

Um, my best game, probably...

There, there's so many, isn't there? But I'd think of it as a collective.

I think Magic Weekend, the, the game against Cas is always brilliant.

And I, I, I think of it as well, uh, we, you know, I, I'd actually got home from holiday at 2:00 AM from Portugal, made the effort to get over to Liverpool, watched us batter Cas, come home, and then watched England beat Mexico in the, in the, um, Azteca as well.

It just looked a backward step when it happened to me.

Are you going with Welsby to be fair? I am exactly the same I would have gone Welsby and like we've said on a couple of shows this year we've got Hastings going to all the press conferences Magic Weekend stuff like that on the media days I thought Welsby Harry Robinson both of them kids should be on the main face set in the W League for me not Jackson Hastings who's going to be captain of the year then piss off somewhere else but yeah Welsby Welsby all day long and then like I said Dagnall and Robinson and players like that coming through take them on the media days and put them in the spotlight of being a face for a good a percent of them

yeah i'm not i'm not sure it's the right face for the club isn't

Like you said, you want to be promoting kids who are going to be here for a long time.

Uh, and the momentum it creates, the competition doesn't really slow down.

Then we got Magic Weekend, Origin.

Yeah

And then we're into the finals, so.

It's full.

And, um, probably as close to the English conditions as you'll ever get.

They created a great atmosphere, singing and chanting and, um, I know at Magic Weekend, they were everywhere.

Yeah.

There's also, away from the music world, one thing that Aaron and his team at Everton have done really successful, I think, in this first year is bringing a host of other sports events to Hill Dickinson Stadium.

So the FA came and brought England's women's team, Magic Weekend, the Super League, Blockbuster weekend where every team plays in the same stadium was held there and very successfully by the sounds of it too.

They've had a golf event there over the summer.

They hosted Fiji, a sort of Fiji home game in Rugby Union against England.

And I don't know if that's got any effect on the players, but the fans must be delighted because not expected to get to the final, but they might well do at this rate.

Yeah, and looking at their fixtures that they've had this year, the results, they've had probably three really good blocks in the season, haven't they? They started with four wins in a row, then had six wins in a row from round nine to round 14, and now they're on a six-match winning streak as well with, obviously, they lost at Magic Weekend, they lost to Leeds early on in the year, they lost to Leeds twice, actually lost to Wigan, but most of the consistency has been a big thing they've been missing out on, but they've definitely gained that this year.

That's right.

They've just been ticking them off, haven't they? A bit like that big block that we had up until sort of beginning of August.

It was awful.

One of the worst games in the Super League.

It was 6-4 until the last minute and won 12-4. scraped through against St. Helens at home, got thumped by Leeds at home, scraped through by Catalan at home, and then lost Magic Weekend, and they were really poor there.

So there were six weeks where I thought, they've gone.

Well, I say typically, my husband went typically Oli Asher-Bott back to play against Hull FC.

So he's fully expecting that Oli's going to run right, the same way he run right against Catalan at Magic Weekend.

So, you know, but my only thing for Silvan is how is he going to keep this current squad all in the team? Because no one deserves to be dropped right now.

And just to complicate that further, whilst we've been recording, Toulouse have announced that they've signed Sam Hall from Castleford for next year, for 2028.

... and your favorite Salford shirt home or away.

Now, Cozzy went for the, um, he went for a St Helens Magic Weekend shirt, and I co- I couldn't find it 'cause I said in at the time, I'll stick it up on the screen, but I...

There were so many of the ones.

He described it as it was the one with blue on the front, but, like, loads of their Magic Weekend kits have blue on the front.

Um, so yeah.

Um, but his, he, he said his favorite ever Salford shirt was this season's away.