Saracens rules out Wembley switch 18/10/2010 |
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Saracens chief executive Edward Griffiths has ruled out Wembley and the Olympic Stadium as potential new homes.
The London rugby club is assessing its options after Watford activated a break clause in their Vicarage Road ground share deal.
Griffiths told BBC Three Counties Radio: "Wembley is owned by the Football Association so I don't think we'd ever play every match at Wembley.
"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."
Last season, Saracens became rugby's first club side to stage a game at Wembley and hosted Leinster there in the Heineken Cup on Saturday (October 16).
And Griffiths hopes the club's occasional relationship with Wembley will continue to grow.
"We'd certainly like a situation where we play two, three or four games a year at Wembley," he added.
"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."
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