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.
rlhttps://www.71rooms.com/rl
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

It's a fair point, but back to my earlier post, later in the year is the key. It's just too cold in Edinburgh at the beginning of May to be sat there for 4 games.
We did, because we're die hards, but even learning from last year and taking loads of extra layers we were still frozen stiff by the end of Saturday.

Loads of people we spoke to came to their team's game and watched the rest in the pub where it was warm. So at any one time there were probably only half of the ticket holders in the ground. 13000 in a ground that size will always struggle to generate atmosphere.

There were folks here last year complaining of getting sunburn
A few years of "summer" rugby has turned us soft, layer up and you are fine, wander round in shirt sleeves and you be cold no matter where you are in the country at this time of year and as tb posted on another thread they compared well with Barca.

Personally Im not fussed if it's scraped or not.

Apologies if someone has suggested similar but...........

Take it down to London (i know, i know), maybe Emirates/Upton Park, and give the myriad of schools that play RL in the London area and the amateur clubs some cut-price tickets, and the chance to see the top players up close. The main concentration of the London amateur scene seems to be north/east of the London area, so take it there for a year at least, and see what happens.

It has a lower mean temperature most of the year mate

Wembley.

And have a Sevens comp for the 11 Championship + 5 Championship 1 teams to fill in gaps between SL games and also tempt a few thousand more fans to the event.

I'd love to see Oldham and Swinton play there at long last and I can't imagine there'd be any problem with the pitch holding up...