The Newcastle club will be relocating in the next few years, the site we have been at since 1989 will be subject to redevelopment and the site lease the club has expires 2027. There have been reports that NRL heavyweights are after it and we will just get the shunt as soon as they can get us out of there.
There has been a proposal to rebuild at a swampy flood prone site with dreadful access issues that will get worse when the new hospital goes up near it at East Maitland. I sincerely hope HRNSW are having a joke with us if they think the site is suitable because its not even close to being suitable if you want the game to survive in the Hunter Valley. There are people who think its a great location because it's near their own base, and if they feel like racing against each other for a carton of beer and a ham sandwich in the next short while then it probably will be.
This game of ours has suffered enough from short term self serving thinkers, please let that not be the case AGAIN here in the Hunter Valley, there are a few people still around that may remember the discussions almost 30 years ago about going to the present site....yes it has been great, but once again we are at the mercy of others, as predicted.
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