League Express editor MARTYN SADLER reflects on a big weekend for Super League

After the Magic Weekend we can say with some certainty that Super League is now two competitions in one, with the top seven breaking away from the bottom seven.
Catalans may be lying in eighth place, only six points outside the top six, but the reality is that they have virtually no chance of mounting a challenge for the play-offs.
And the clubs below them are now playing only for pride.
On the other hand, of the top seven, it looks clear to me that Leigh Leopards will burst into the top six. But who will they replace? That is the question that isn’t easy to answer and it will be a continuing story as the rest of the season unfolds.
The weekend’s action attracted record crowds as well as the next Prime Minister, with Andy Burnham being persuaded to say that he would strongly support Rugby League when he moves into 10 Downing Street.
It was played in a great stadium and we will be at Everton again next year for the next instalment of the Magic Weekend, although it will be played on the first two days of May, which will be a bank holiday weekend.
“We are saving the best until last,” said commentator Mark WIlson, as the clash between Wigan and St Helens was about to start and he was right. The final game was much closer and more intense than anything that had gone before and I would like to send my best wishes to Wigan youngster Nathan Lowe, who suffered a serious injury. I wish him a very speedy recovery.
Of course the one thing the RFL can’t control about the Magic Weekend is how the individual matches actually turn out.
And unfortunately this year’s Magic Weekend was characterised by games that were far more one-sided than I’m sure the RFL would have liked.
The average winning margin of the first six matches was 27 points, with the largest margin being 42 points, which Toulouse registered against Catalans and Leeds against Bradford, while the smallest margin was York’s 12-point victory against Huddersfield, which was the first game of the weekend.
Incidentally, that game was played by two teams wearing strips that looked very similar, particularly for viewers on television.
Why on earth was that allowed to happen?
I assume the fault was Huddersfield’s, whose colours are supposed to be claret and gold but those colours were not apparent in the strip they wore.
Why do so many clubs ignore their established colours when turning out teams on big occasions?
The RFL really needs to do something about colour clashes in big games.
And perhaps it needs to reconsider the matches it selects for the Magic Weekend.
It’s no surprise that the closest game (before the last one) was the game between the two lowest placed clubs in the competition.
Perhaps the RFL, rather than allocating derby games, should allocate first v second, third v fourth and so on from the finishing positions this season, in the hope of producing games that keep the fans guessing until the 80th minute.