St James Park (Exeter) St James Park (Exeter) St James Park is a football stadium in Exeter and is the home of Exeter City F.C. The stadium is served by the St James Park railway station which is right next to the ground (the line runs behind the Grandstand). It has been adopted by the club who contribute to its upkeep, under the community rail scheme, and its railings have been painted in the red and white of Exeter's strip. The new capacity of St James Park following completion of a £3.4million redevelopment project is 8,696. The record attendance is 20,984, who watched Exeter
Newcastle rugby league team The visit by the New Zealanders boosted the profile of rugby league in Newcastle as the Newcastle Rebels, the only non-Sydney club in the newly-formed New South Wales Rugby Football League, were playing all their matches away in Sydney. As a result of the visit playing numbers in Newcastle surged and in 1910 the Rebels dropped out of the NSWRFL to form the Newcastle Rugby League. In 1911 Newcastle played against the touring New Zealand team in a tight match almost pulling off an upset before going down 21-20. During the 1913 New Zealand rugby league tour of Australia Newcastle