haha, just imagine that one day an Old Trafford look-a-like will be towering over the Warrington skyline.

There's one thing i do know about the pies they are very passionate about their RL and believe you me that hurts admitting that being a Saints fan.

the reports are they will fill in the corner or add a 2nd tier on one of the sides

20,000 is what it should be

i read somewhere that saints ground has been built with future expansion in mind given financial constraints at present

£250k-£400k to hire Wembley for the day.

Leigh Sports Village cost £83 million. Saints stadium is going to be in the region of £25 million. Emirates stadium (capacity 60k+) cost just short of £400 million.

Bit of a no-brainer really.

Whats there other than the ground?

A bloody lot but I can see the point.
Sometimes though you've got to speculate to accumulate n all that

A load of slum housing and a bunch of wigginers, but no railway station.



Hotel, college, athletics track, pitches, leisure centre/gym.

28,000 would be spot on for our national stadium. Focus on filling that for a few years and then look to expanding maybe.

One of the biggest reasons RU is so far ahead in terms of international RL is because they have their own stadia and they can fill it. Twickers, Millenuim, Murrayfield.... the list goes on, they are massive in terms of income and we miss out.

I would hope we would link up with Leeds United and use Ellend road once its had its makeover, that would be pretty good.

England RL needs a proper home, we don't currently have one and I find it quite embarassing to our game.

The roots should of been planted years ago like they were in RU but unfortunatly no one had the forsight.

We get 70k for the grand final and challenge cup final, a 28k stadium would be useless. Unless you think we should have a national stadium and then not play our biggest games there.

Lewis should grow some and demand they give the RFL the Olympic stadium. West Ham won't need it in the Championship after all.

I think its pretty obvious that it would be used for international games first. It could be used for both semi finals of the cup though.

Let's face it the toilets only got a roof recently at KR!!!

A roof! How unhygeinic - a brick wall open to the elements is far healthier.

Or the money?

I'm talking when the game was first formed. Twickers has been around for years. It has been developed over a long period of time.

That's why a national stadium is a no goer though. It would be a farce to build one that isn't big enough to hold the games biggest games of the season, so we'd need an 80k seater, however it would only ever be used a few times per year, and most of those games we'd get 40k maximum. The two semi finals as you say and Internationals when we get them, but that is only every two years.

Twickenham gets enough games to pay it's way, an RL national stadium wouldn't.

A roof? That's luxury!

a national stadium could be extremely viable:-

challenge cup
grand final
magic weekend
opening of the seasons, double headers

But how in this day and age do you get a stadium of the required size built for a price the RFL can afford? It's not realistic.

28,000...

My God...

You blokes have no clue.

BTW, Elland Road was our ground before soccer for Christ's sake.

some of the leeds and saints fans on here are so hilarious.

your teams got beat, live with it

maguires a better coach than morgan or bluey

Plus WCC, and the challenge cup semi finals. The NRC finals and 7's, this would allow them to grow. All the lower league finals.

If we had such a big stadium it would also be used for concerts and various other things.

The problem is, we don't have the money yet. This needed planting when the game was in its early years like twickers. This is why I said we would need to link up with another rugby team or a big football team.

What's Morgan got to do with it.