Scottish Rugby Union powerbroker David Mackay has admitted that they could move from Murrayfield to clear a crippling debt.
The financial crisis in football seems to have taken hold of rugby as they are believed to have a bank overdraft of £18.5million.
Mackay, the chairman of the union's executive board, told Scotland on Sunday: "If someone was to say 'Here's a patch of land' and if the economics worked and the equation was right we would have no choice but to consider it. It is our duty."
A new national rugby stadium could also house Edinburgh's professional rugby team and Hearts.