*Magic Weekend* - KO: 12:00

That is useless from Kear

Sammut needs to spark second 40.  Brad have nothing else on the pitch.

It's not all over yet.

Of course not but I am holding out little hope.  Bar the chalk off Brad have offered zero near the line. Very one dimensional.

That's poor....

I think the Bulls could stay out there all day without scoring.

I was thinking the same thing earlier about Widnes, but the difference is that Bradford are playing a team who can tackle. Very well.

They're sh1tting themselves any time they get in the final 10.

Hallelujah

Done well there. Impossible to go through this Hudds team physically, so you have to try your luck other ways.

Hudds definitely a proper team this year then.

Hope the next game is a bit more interesting.

Wigan by as many as they want, We have no go forward without Delaney & Peacock.

Wigan wear Red and Leeds in Pink

These buffoons couldnt run a p!ss up in a brewery

And correct me if i'm wrong are not Leeds the home team??

Not great, but a long way from the worst kit clash we've seen. No idea why Leeds aren't wearing their home kit.

McIllorum at it again. Not the worst thing we've ever seen, but clearly illegal. There seems to be a massive range of things in superleague that you can do to cause damage to opponents with only a penalty as punishment.

amazing how different a side can look in 6 days

what a great ball from Tompkins - love the camera angle on that

Wigan are so good in those situations. Really made Leeds work, then swung it wide and found an extra man easily.

Vickery caught wandering YET again.

about time wigan stepped up

This is quite tasty.

leeds on the rack cant believe they are kicking this

charnley hard done by there

Some fascinating officiating so far

Well, thats an extraordinary finish.

astonishing finish

easily the game of the weekend so far

Not up against much from what i've seen today Vis, but this is a cracker for sure.

Brilliant

what a try that is

3 defenders on him and he still found room for the ball carrying arm

excellent stuff from this game

wigan are fkin terrible here

Ryan Bailey is a cok.

McIllorum had his go, so now Bailey has to top him for dangerous stupidity.

2pts lost from having a complete buffoon on your team. Sad.

FFS

rancid

dammit - second time this weekend a team has let a try in on the buzzer

Concussion can be the only explanation for that....

could so easily have been 12-14 at HT

Yep but 1.2 for Wigan at HT is WAY too short.

Having laid quite a lot at 1.3 and only managed to shift about a fifth of it at 3.75, I hope you're right, Moaner!

Draw trading lower with the favs 8pts ahead than it was at 0-0

Rhinos will only get weaker with their young forwards tiring and McDermott's criminal under use of McShane with Burrow, Sinfield & McGuire all in terrible form.

McShane must be getting bored on the bench. Easily good enough to start for most Superleague teams, but rarely seems to get a go at Leeds. Real wasted talent at the moment.

He's been in superb form this season and when he gets a real run going McDermott limits his minutes or drops him, I agree the way Widnes form picked up last season when he joined was no surprise, That rated him massively there.

FFS

obstruction here

Surely that one only takes one look.

Right I'm effectively on the draw at 11 and Rhinos at 2.26 

Well I certainly don't think Widnes have improved for losing McShane and gaining Brown, for all Eddie's talk of "Marquee signing" (possibly because he's as much use as a big tent).

McShane comes on and instantly has a hand in a Try...

One more and you can level up Lata

Coooooome on.

what has happened to Sinfield's kicking this season?  He hardly ever used to miss

I could get rid of the red now, Vis, but I hate laying the draw at double figures.

blatant cheatin is ok then with this idiot in charge

"Both sides realise that this is not in the bank yet"

Thanks Stevo, seeing 16-20 on the scoreboard must have confused everyone.

yes so often comes back to bite you when you do

worst trade I did all season was laying off most of my green in Ire v Fra 6N at about 30 - hell knows what I was thinking that day

leeds way more clinical than wigan here

Leeds will be f*cked come Friday. That's 3 games in a short period.

Leeds are certainly riding their luck here. Silverwood never seems to show any bollocks when teams are constantly messing around.

Man taken out.  Quite right

these pens keeping leeds in it, only way look like getting good field position

That's a pen, yet too cases of killing an attack by 2 or 3 efforts at a clearly completed tackle aren't.

leeds lovin ref again

*two

Come on.

yep clear pen, not having go at ref more wigan

Feck

that bailey again

Another blatant pen.

Only a matter of time.  Leeds look dead/

I kind of agree with the comms, but when there is a hand on the ball and it comes flying out how can it sometimes be a pen and sometimes a knock-on? Makes for such ridiculously fine lines.

Unbelievable Jeff!!!

GET IN

Cor blimey, here's an interesting finish.

Undeserved

No Try for me

Nope, maybe not. Probably no try

been very interesting having cummings in the box this weekend

Arse

ffs

That's beyond awful for my position.

Right decision though, sadly....

For how long has the clock been running without nothing happening?

Forget ref cam - having a real ref in the Sky box has been an excellent feature of this weekend.

Totally, Vis.

Destroys my League winners back of Leeds!

tired bodies and minds

yep vis Sky comms finally learning the laws

That's it.

Fair play to Wigan.

The only proper match of the weekend as it turned out.

the best  team won, wigan made fewer mistakes and lacked a bailey. however the McGuire try being disallowed, was on a par with the whiffy hull decision yesterday. that was not an obstruction, either technically(if you look at the direction of the wigan players movement, or in the spirit of the law)and in any other game would not have been looked at. if the refs are going to be picky why no sending off for the early shoulder charge? or no penalty for the soon  following play the balls ( or not)
leaves a bad taste
wtf is going on?

The Hull decision stands out on its own as a clear mistake and is not on the same level at all.

The Leeds one was called in the box by Cummings and the TMO also came to same conclusion, so I don't have a major issue with it.

I reckon this might have been the last "Magic" weekend. It must cost close to the gate receipts to hire the ground for 2 days, the chances of attracting sponsors must be damaged when they see one of the showpiece events in a stadium which is rarely more than a quarter full, and most of the matches were largely meaningless due the ridiculous structure of RL (at least they are supposedly doing something about that). What is the point of Salford v Widnes, or Leeds v Wigan for that matter. The only "interest" is around whther teams get in the top 8, and how interesting is that for most people. Not a lot.

Luckily we've got a refereeing decision to distract attention from the state of SL ....

Not sure, looked a healthy enough crowd.

Think it will be back next year.

I think just a couple of double headers in the summer, one in Manchester, one in Leeds might be a better way to go - similar to what RU does at the start of the season with the London clubs.  The whole MM weekend concept is looking a bit long winded and as a fan who has attended there is not really that much interest in sitting through 3 or 4 games back to back.  Even for the most die hard RL fans that is too long a stint.

As a punter, having seven matches to bet on live over the weekend was awesome and I wish we could have that every week!

Having attended for the first time this year, how anybody can crab the magic concept is beyond me? I watched 3 games on the Sunday and really enjoyed all of em. The standard and intensity clearly cranked up a notch for each game and it was a fantastic event. Havong watched on the television on the Staurday im amazed there wasnt larger disparity in the crowds each day?

There seemed to be significantly more there on Sunday than Saturday. The RFL sure makes mistakes but this isnt one of them. If the fans arent prepared to get behind it and turn up, maybe the game gets what it deserves. I reckon out of the 30000 that were there on Sunday half were Wigan fans even though the 5000 Leeds fans that were there made considerably more noise.

vis, if the video refs are going to technically super picky, when will they disallow tries that come from a scrum fed to second row?(which ridiculously is all of them) now that will be interesting to see.

The Hull/KR decision at the weekend was totally disgraceful.  You can forgive a ref on the pitch for giving a wrong decision but not a Video ref!  How could he have not seen it! It cost me and I'm still fuming now.  Even if I didn't have money on it I would still be angry.  The video ref should be demoted.  It was clearly offside as pointed out by the tators.  What was his thinking or logic .  I'm not an expert on RL but even I could see it was offside! Ruined an otherwise good weekened.  No Magic for me

£4.20 a pint (£3.60 for city home games), families been refused in with drinks and food (allowed last year). I won't be going again, I just hate been ripped off. Then again I'm a Wakey fan so no amount off field distractions could made it a good weekend.