It will be interesting to see what happens to the Magic Weekend once this new league format has been ratified some time this week.
I've got a feeling it could be used during the second half of the season, during the league of eight thing, let's just look at an example for the all important middle group, this group will be used to determine Promotion and relegation, so for example lets suppose it is made up of:
Batley Bulldogs
Bradford Bulls
Featherstone Rovers
Hull KR
London Bronco's
Sheffield Eagles
Widnes Vikings
Whitehaven
So, under proposals hinted at last week, this mini league is meant to play each other only once each, making a total of seven games each in total. So the way I look at it, the only way this could be made fair to everyone is if three matches are played at home, three away and the spare game would have to be played at a neutral venue, such as the Magic weekend.
Otherwise, teams that just missed out on promotion could complain that other teams got four home games, while they had to play four away games and missed out on promotion because of this.
There is also issues about whether the home and away games will be organised in a way that's fair to everyone, and they are not biased towards any one club in particular.
This is only my idea's and the RFL is yet to explain it all properly, but I do think this new formula is flawed when you think it through properly.
