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Looks like I put the kiss of death on them here. Shame.

Mackems will win this. They're by far the better team and Sheff Wed don't look up for it at all.

Leaves West Brom with a win percentage of 5.6%.

Aye we would have been 2 or 3 up at half time with a good striker up front.

What a horrible little team Huddersfield are. The niggly fouls, the kicking the ball away, the constant whining to the ref. Hope these go down with Stoke and West Brom.

Disappointed they won but on the flip side I had £25 on them @ 7/1 which will pay for my day out at the match later and the rest of my drink over the Bank Holiday weekend.

Thought Derby had some huge injury crisis and that's why Cardiff accused them getting the game called off last week? Players that were missing are all back for this week, hence why they wanted that game off. Good news then!

Thought Derby had some huge injury crisis and that's why Cardiff accused them getting the game called off last week?

If someone asked me who I support I would never dream of saying "The Mags" or "I'm a Mag".

Oh yes. I fucking hate league. Awful awful sport. The fans are bellends too. There’s no segregation at Union games, yet at League it’s worse than some football games you go to with the vitriol and hate towards one another Yet Newcastle has hosted the Magic weekend for the past 3 seasons, 12 different sets of Rugby League fans all drinking in the same city with virtually no trouble other than the odd isolated incident. Now imagine if 12 different football teams were all playing in the same weekend in such a small city. There would be hell on! I'm sure there was footage a year or so ago of it all kicking off inside the stadium...? Aye a Leeds fan fighting with a Hull fan. Lasted all of 10 seconds and that is as bad as it's got in the 3 years it's been held here.

Oh yes. I fucking hate league. Awful awful sport. The fans are bellends too. There’s no segregation at Union games, yet at League it’s worse than some football games you go to with the vitriol and hate towards one another Yet Newcastle has hosted the Magic weekend for the past 3 seasons, 12 different sets of Rugby League fans all drinking in the same city with virtually no trouble other than the odd isolated incident. Now imagine if 12 different football teams were all playing in the same weekend in such a small city. There would be hell on!

Objectively it's not. Evidence = national and international attendance and TV figures Rarely if ever do you see an empty seat at Twickenham, as opposed to Wembley for England games. The International games are extremely popular. The English national team are hopeless at football and boring to watch which is why Wembley is hardly ever full whereas the England Rugby Union team are one of the best teams in the World (up until the 6 Nations just gone!). There's no comparison in Popularity between football and Rugby which would suggest many more people enjoy watching football to Rugby.

Each to their own. I'd far sooner watch a game of Rugby League before Union. Well done to the Falcons for yesterday though. Seems it was a huge success. Would be good if a few of those fans got themselves along to Kingston Park to support them.

League is great to watch. It's pretty much non stop and the 5 tackle rule encourages attacking play. I've been to the last 3 Magic Weekends at SJP and thoroughly enjoyed every one. Already booked our tickets for this year. Can't get away with Union. I just find it too stop start and the game never seems to flow.

Aye, expecting 25k. Told it will be happening again if it's a success. Aye, they have a date pencilled in for next year and want to sell out the entire lower bowl next year. I think 26k tickets have been sold so far, with them expecting to sell between 27k-30k. £10 for two games, and a fan park around the ground isn’t bad. No doubt food and drink will cost a fortune though, at least there will be drinking in the stands. I've got no interest in Rugby Union so I'll be giving it a miss but fair play that Newcastles Rugby team now appear to be a bigger draw than Sunderlands football team these days.

Holy shit. I think someone needs to check he's ok. That's quite the meltdown that is

I don't think they do, I also seem to remember the mackems not beating NUFC at their own place for nearly 25 years. But hey ho. It was over 28 years. 12 games in total.

Aye there's certainly a pattern developing here. Mag in Peace, Wolves fan in peace, Smoggie in Peace. They all blow smoke up the mackems backsides as well. How strange.

Fair enough. Maybe your post didn't come across as you intended. Happens to me all the time.

Eh? There's not many more traditional working class places in the UK than Newcastle so that's a strange stick you've used to beat them with. There's so many other things you could have laughed at them up for as well. It's not like they don't give us much ammunition!

Sunlun till I die marra! Or maybe just until they got relegated from the PL.

67th minute apparently.

https://twitter.com/AwayDayFooty/status/975450862981087234 From the opposite end of the ground.

If he'd been a nonce he'd still be playing.

How much truth is there in this? Appears to be quite a sore point.. the Keegan side. Comes up a lot. (Not from the North East. ) But they didn’t ‘lose’ any fans did they? Their numbers didn’t go down. Ours went up but that was more in line with the general increase across the country following the increase in exposure/popularity due to the formation of the PL. You hear plenty of Mackem accents in the ground on matchdays. They could quite easily just be from South Shields or Washington tbf. Mackem accent is quite a bit different to the Washington or South Shields accent.