The Western Grandstand at EnergyAustralia Stadium

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Isn't it start of the NRL season?

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6 weeks. Round 4 on 2 April against the Dragons is their first home game.

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Drove past today. Seats in upper tier have started to be installed. Looking good.

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Should be a world class stadium once completed.

If feels like the stadium has been being upgraded for years now though.

Great for the community in Newcastle who are all Rugby League diehards.

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World clarsh!

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BDGS wrote:Should be a world class stadium once completed.
See Cheesie's comment.
BDGS wrote: It feels like the stadium has been being upgraded for years now.
Correct.
BDGS wrote: Great for the community in Newcastle who are all Rugby league diehards.
And the Jets fans too surely?

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Boba Fett wrote:
BDGS wrote:Should be a world class stadium once completed.
See Cheesie's comment.
BDGS wrote: It feels like the stadium has been being upgraded for years now.
Correct.
BDGS wrote: Great for the community in Newcastle who are all Rugby league diehards.
And the Jets fans too surely?
Last point: depends on if they try to host a bloody Super-X event in the middle of football season again:o

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^ Won't happen now that Tinkler is favoured to take over the Knights now.

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New Newcastle Nearmap is now online.

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malleekid wrote:New Newcastle Nearmap is now online.
For those who don't know how or can't be bothered, here's the link...http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-32.918764,1 ... d=20110211

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It looks like a deck of ciggies from the sky.

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A few pics from The Newcastle Herald

http://www.theherald.com.au/multimedia/ ... adium.aspx

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Some really good pics over at the Ausgrid Stadium Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... 01&theater

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For two clubs with barely a spare cent between them, they've got a damn fine facility. Novocastrians should drop their pants everytime someone from Macquarie Street visits town.
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How do we know they haven't been?

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