Saracens Rules Out Wembley Move

Saracens chief executive Edward Griffiths has ruled out both Wembley and the Olympic Stadium as potential permanent homes for the Aviva Premiership club.??

Saracens again staged a Heineken Cup match at Wembley at the weekend – losing narrowly to Leinster – with an attendance of 45,000.??

But Griffiths said: ‘Wembley is owned by the Football Association so I don’t think we’d ever play every match at Wembley.’

??He also ruled out playing at the Olympic Stadium: ‘The Olympic Stadium’s not suitable as a 25,000-seat stadium in a team sport. There’s a permanent athletics track which means you’re quite far from the action.’??

‘We’re looking for a stadium that’s smaller to be our home stadium, where we can develop some kind of scarcity.’??

The club is looking for a new ground to play its home games after Watfor activated a clause to end its ground share deal at Vicarage road.??

Although Griffiths ruled out a permanent switch to Wembley, he did say that the club will continue to stage matches there: ‘We’d certainly like a situation where we play two, three or four games a year at Wembley.’??

‘We enjoy the stadium, the stadium enjoys us. Our next objective is to break into the upper tier and start getting crowds of 60 to 70,000.’