This would be so obviously a positive enhancement to the RL calendar, I thought it was worth it's own thread.

I'd have low ticket prices like for the recent Huddersfield v Leeds CC match and the Magic Weekend. This maybe wouldn't be so universally popular, but I'd also suggest offering free entrance to Arsenal season ticket holders.

Not a bad idea, though maybe use the Olympic Stadium instead?

Fans won't go for it.

We can't fill the HJ for a semi final between 2 of the game's biggest clubs when it's just down the road, there isn't an appetite for cup games other than the finals.

Only problem with that would be the distance from the pitch (like Don Valley).

Emirates sounds a good idea tbh and the double header would be a good idea. Reduced ticket prices would potentially encourage neutrals to travel.

Really?

I'm a big fan of the game developing, the Magic weekend has been brilliant the last 2 years, as it was in 2011 in Cardiff IMO, but I don't see a future for this.

Not for all the tea in China would I go to London to watch 4 teams try and get to the Cup Final if 1 of them wasn't Wigan, even if the tickets were free. Too much is being asked of the fans to travel at the moment. Leeds and Wire went to Wembley and OT last year, neither of which are a cheap day out. Throw in another trip to London a month or so before the final and it's taking the fans for granted.

Not against the idea of a double header per se, but it shouldn't be held in London.

no thanks.

would be a shocking attendance.

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.