He did suggest that the Magic weekend could be moved back a few weeks. In which case the Soccer season would be over anyway.

I love the idea of the Magic Weekend, been to all 4 now, but preferred Cardiff. What about moving it to the bank holiday at the end of May. The soccer season would be finished and maybe some financially strapped team would be grateful of the cash. A Birmingham team? Birmingham could cope with the amount of spectators and a smaller venue would be better.

Yeah I saw that, when we were at Brentford we had to be away from the ground for 6 weeks to allow the pitch to be maintained and that wasn't the bowling green surfaces the Premier League now demand, there is what around 9 to 10 weeks between the end of one season and the start of another that doesn't leave a huge window for us.

I'm not even sure it is what damage that does happen, it is what could happen and who gets the bullet for it later on. Add in the whinging from the footy fans and media there aren't many stadium managers who'd take a risk.

Last time Newcastle ripped up their pitch it cost £500k and took six weeks to complete, it wasn't any good for the first year and a bit until it got a decent year of bedding in and growing, the cr@p with the Wembley pitch only magnifies any doubts clubs would have.

I'd love to see an event like this at Newcastle BTW, a great ground and a fantastic city. I can't see it happening though.

How about the Ricoh Arena , Coventry?

It holds 32,500 and they’re still only a Championship side. It’s easy to get to, being right next to the M6, and there’s lot’s of places to see nearby – Warwick Castle and Stratford Upon Avon etc.

It’s a lovely stadium and the RFL will have no problem selling it out. It’s near the heartlands as well as in a development area. It would look great packed out on T.V.

Yup but it is way way out of the centre and a few here have been moaning about a 2mile walk from city centre to the ground.

It can only be Murrayfield or Cardiff IMO, if not them then not at all. Move the CC back to May.

Fair enough but...

For those that don’t like traveling there’s a hotel built into the ground.
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For the rest you can get a taxi for about £12.00 from the city. There’s a bus that goes every 10 minutes to the stadium from the railway station. There are lots of park and ride services at a cost of £5 - £7 too. So there shouldn’t be any problem getting to the ground.
There’ll always be a reason to dismiss any venue as suitable. I’m not saying it’s perfect and, as my team won’t be there anyway, it makes no odds to me where they hold it next year, but it looks like a decent option to me; not perfect, but nowhere is it seems.

The reason for a non double header for CC semi is the fact that BBC want a game on Saturday and a game on Sunday.

I always thought of balmy as meaning pleasantly cool.

Like a light breeze on a fine evening.

Or a soothing ointment on a nasty case of athletes foot.

Typical glass half empty RL fans - not sold out so let's move to a smaller stadium, 200 miles is too far to travel? good job we're not in North America - it's a fantastic idea that the RFU would copy in an instant if we dropped it so let's look at this another way, how do attract another 15 - 20 thousand fans to go? that's what we should be looking at.
If some people on this site had been round in 1895 the Northern Union would probably have been doomed after 2-3 years!!

...based on what did happen their clubs would have converted to association football....

Mild and pleasant