Magic Weekend 2025 - Back To Newcastle Super League's Magic Weekend is heading back to Newcastle next May – and fans have two weeks to snap up tickets at a special early rate to take their pick of the six fixtures at St James' Park. On top of the 50% discount on tickets for all season ticket holders when they purchase through their clubs, anyone can take advantage of a 40% discount across all ticketing categories until midnight 2nd December 2024 (Cyber Monday). Magic Weekend will celebrate its 18th birthday in 2025, and will return to the first May Bank Holiday, just as when it was launched in Cardiff in 2007 as a trailblazing concept for Rugby League and for British sport. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Magic Weekend 2025 - Back To Newcastle Super League's Magic Weekend is heading back to Newcastle next May – and fans have two weeks to snap up tickets at a special early rate to take their pick of the six fixtures at St James' Park. On top of the 50% discount on tickets for all season ticket holders when they purchase through their clubs, anyone can take advantage of a 40% discount across all ticketing categories until midnight 2nd December 2024 (Cyber Monday). Magic Weekend will celebrate its 18th birthday in 2025, and will return to the first May Bank Holiday, just as when it was launched in Cardiff in 2007 as a trailblazing concept for Rugby League and for British sport. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Makes you wonder the rationale for moving it to Elland Road in 2024...

Wow Wigan at Magic, never thought that would happen

I won't be going not because it's Wigan (aren't the fixtures based on the previous league placings) but because I'm bored of Newcastle.

I think the nightlife is over hyped and whilst I understand the concept of supply and demand the hotel prices are dear.

Agree with this but also was the concept of Magic Weekend to take it to venues to sell the sport. Going the same place all the time will get boring but there are people that go to Benidorm 25 years on the trot for holiday.

I've nothing against Benidorm, it's not for me personally as I do like a change of scene, travel broadens the mind is a good maxim IMO.

BUT to be fair to Benidorm, they seem to know their market and try to give their punters what they want, cheap beer and accommodation. Newcastle's hospitality sector on the other hand....So much so, you'd probably be able to weekend cheaper on the Costa Blanca.

Was not singling out Benidorm particularly, my point being seeing different venues is nice. Granted it maybe a poor choice sometimes but that’s part of traveling. I just think people get comfortable if it’s something that was nice so will just keep going. In fairness I think Newcastle was/is as good a venue as Cardiff. I just think with this concept it should go to other places. Dublin would be a good call.

The "spreading the game" argument is a little weak for the North East and it's a real shame. Newcastle / Gateshead was once a development area and then had it's own SL club in 1999 called "Gateshead Thunder" they finished 1999 above us coached by McRae. Anyone remember them?

Following season it merged with Hull Sharks, changed it's name to Hull FC and played it's home games in Hull...

Of course now we have the Newcastle Thunder who started again in 2001.

Apologies for going slightly off topic here, but Wires71's point leads me to one of my real RL irritations - that the present Hull FC seem to have had the merger wiped from their memory by the Men in Black. The present Hull FC has existed since 1999, when - as Wires71 rightly states - Hull Sharks merged with Gateshead Thunder to create a NEW club called Hull FC (i.e., NOT the same as the former Hull FC). The new club was even given a payment of £1.25m by the RFL to pay off creditors of both Hull Sharks and Gateshead Thunder. But the present Hull FC claim to have been founded in 1865, and won six Championships and five Challenge Cups. Their club badge even has 'Est. 1865' on it, for God's sake! It should actually say 'Est. 1999', and their achievements should be zero Championships and three Challenge Cups. They are living a lie and it just annoys me!

Blinking 'eck and breath!

It doesn't grind my gears, but on the other hand, and the merger malarkey might not be exactly the same, but Huddersfield do tend to get called out on it more openly/regularly Shudders...