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Salford first game on the Saturday.

The Tigers take on the Red Devils at #MagicWeekend 2021!

Castleford vSalford will open the festival of rugby league on Saturday, 4th September in Newcastle at St James' Park!

Starting to get a buzz for new season ...

If only :pray:

Why Salford?? I thought the idea of magic weekend was to have derbies, or as near as possible derbies on the road. Could it be that our neighbour's got fed up of being beat..

Do you mean like when we’ve played Warrington and saints ahah ?

Tigers1926 wrote: ↑23 Feb 2021, 21:18 Why Salford?? I thought the idea of magic weekend was to have derbies, or as near as possible derbies on the road. Could it be that our neighbour's got fed up of being beat..

I think the fixtures have been done by looking at 2020's finishing league positions.

Yeah, if I remember rightly, we smashed warrington, leeds and wakey but can't remember saints. I'm sure the original idea was derbies on the road..

Tigers1926 wrote: ↑23 Feb 2021, 22:15 Yeah, if I remember rightly, we smashed warrington, leeds and wakey but can't remember saints. I'm sure the original idea was derbies on the road..

Saints was at Anfield, wasn’t it?

Yes fumper it was

If the Magic games end up being a ‘regular’ fixture with one team simply giving up home advantage, they are probably trying to keep the derby games as these provide much-needed finances for the club involved when they are played at home.

I have always liked the idea of fixtures against teams who you finished near last season. 1 v 2, 3 v 4....

What I don't want to set is last year's best side getting to play the promoted team.

Salford have been the better team than us for the last 2 seasons, its pretty fair is that.