Probably the best stadium in Britain after Wembley (I inc Millenium in that before anyone asks). If we are to use it maybe for a Magic weekend but not the CC Semis. It is only on the end of the train line for Yorkshire clubs and London. We have the final in London a month later so would be asking far too much for fans. The locals won't be that interested even with tickets at a fiver. 10000 in there would be lost imo.

By all means have a double header in Yorkshire / Lancashire but not in London

Probably go with this.
Perhaps re worse this around:

Magic Weekend at Arsenal (is that allowed since we can't alliterate the M like Millennium/Murrayfield/Manchester Magic?!)
CC Semi Final Double Header at Man City.

Best of both worlds then. I think asking clubs' fans to go to London twice in such a short space if time is what would kill off the idea. A double header though would be great.

Not sure London would be the best place for it, especially with the final not long after . Can see the reasoning behind a double header at a neutral stadium though. I think Anfield or Bramall Lane would be better.

I think having all four games in first round of the play-offs over a weekend at somewhere like St James Park would be good as well.

I’ve said before, the game needs to sell itself, building around a few tent-pole events really does help us do that. The Magic Weekend, the GF, the CC final, are our current ones, lets start the play-offs with a bang with another, look to a heritage round somewhere in there, Carry on building the tradition with the easter weekend. The game seems to have forgotten it not only needs to sell itself to sponsors and corporates and tv companies (which don’t get me wrong, its very very very important) but it also has nearly 200 events a year it needs to sell to the public.

eMirates Magic?

Surely if the Magic Weekend is to continue, it should be in London? I think the concept is great, but wasn't the whole idea of it to expand the game beyond the heartlands? I'm absolutely astounded that they haven't taken it there already what with all the noises about developing the game's presence in the capital.

Beltin idea , if you want the clubs and the RFL to lose money on playing in the semi final of the cup

The cost of renting would take all your gate reciepts

How much is it?

Agreed a double header up north is something that could be looked at Elland road, the Reebok possibly.

is this A JOKE?

We can't fill Widnes for a Semi....NO NO NO! Nobody would go!

Its expensive enough at the moment for fans getting to their own grounds....If the powers that be want to do this...do it local...Reebok, Anfield, Etihad etc etc....NOT LONDON!

No, no, no.

What planet are some people living on? CC crowds have been on the decline for years, we can't even sell out heartland grounds for semis between our biggest clubs - and you want to take the games to a 60,000 capacity ground in the ar5e end of London?

Never mind the cost of travel, food, drink and perhaps hotels - what is the point? Puurrleaasee don't give me any crap about promoting the game - as the Magic weekends have shown, locals don't give a toss and very few will attend, and the media don't care. You'd just have a terrible crowd looking lost in an enormous stadium. Again.

Stupid ideas seems to be theme of the month. Deary me.

As others have alluded to, as it is too much "extra" cost already comes at the back end of the season. Fans are expected to shell out for CC semi and final, 3 rounds of playoffs and the GF all within a couple of months. For me the structuring of the cup needs altering before we even think about changing the location of the games. This ridiculous gap between the 5R and the QF means the appetite for the cup isn't sustained IMO. This has been proven with the poor crowd figures for QFs and SFs even when the bigger teams are playing against each other in moderately-sized stadia.

FWIW I think something like this would only work if it was replacing the current Magic Weekend, not on top of it. 2 double headers for the QFs, one Saturday and one Sunday.

Which would then remove potentially half the SL clubs from the MW

If it aint broke , dont fix it

RL [ well SL and its clubs/players ] currently has 5/6 ' Event ' matches during the season depending on how many Exile games they have , that is enough for the time being , leave it alone , attempt to build what you have instead of diluting them by adding more

When they are all selling out , then and only then look again

Bit too much asking fans to travel to London for the Semis then the Final, the idea is good but would need to be Midlands in my opinion to get a decent crowd.

Maybe Kingpower Stadium, Ricoh Arena, Brittania Stadium or City Ground ??

Magic weekend, CC FInal, Catalans away (twice or thrice depending on your luck in the CC & play offs) and now you want another expensive London trip. There is a limit to what fans can afford.

I agree with the "if it aint broke, don't fix it" opinion to a certain extent, but at the minute I don't feel the Magic Weekend serves any real purpose apart from a day/weekend out for the fans. It adds an extra fixture to the league table and means you play one team 3 times. All I was saying is I think the idea of the OP is a complete non-starter, I don't think the fans would want an extra trip to London adding to the fixture calendar. I think a compromise between the 2, playing double headers for the cup QFs in place of the MW in it's current format, still provides a weekend away for 8 sets of fans, adds more "worth" to the MW and would go some way to increasing the poor attendances we are currently seeing in the CC.

I mentioned in the Magic Weekend - why? thread that I would be more than happy with the RFL keeping the MW as it is. I was merely suggesting an alternative format which I think would go someway to solving some of the issues people have with it currently.