1960s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000 - 2001 | 2002 - 2003 | 2004 - 2005 | 2006 - 2007
1960s
| Jubilee Oval Work Gets Setback March 6th, 1968 St. George Rugby League fans will have to wait until at least the 1969 season before they can enjoy the comforts of a ‘new look’ Jubilee Oval. |
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1980s
| New Stand At Jubilee April 1988 Kogarah Council has approved the controversial development application for the construction of a $3 million grandstand on the western side of Jubilee Oval. |
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1990s
Dragons Might Shift Stumps |
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The Day Kogarah Oval Dies |
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| Thanks For The Memories! 6th May, 1999 A large part of league history will disappear when the new St. George-Illawarra consortium plays its last game at Kogarah Oval in three months, to prepare for a new home at the Sydney Football Stadium or Stadium Australia in 2000. |
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| Goodbye Kogarah Oval 6th May, 1999 Kogarah Oval - home of the St. George Dragons for nearly 50 years - will be abandoned because it is too small to accommodate a proposed $30 million stadium complex to meet National Rugby League requirements for playing venues. |
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2000 - 2001
| Dragon's Lair 7th Devember 2000 Plans are well advanced for a redevelopment of St. George Soccer Stadium that would see the St. George Illawarra Dragons playing out of Barton Park within three years. |
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| Dragons tempted to move 13th December 2000 ST GEORGE Illawarra could play home games at a new-look Barton Park if a proposed $100 million redevelopment of the Rockdale site goes ahead. |
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| Team seals a 4-year deal 2nd June 2001 The Dragons yesterday signed on to remain at WIN Stadium for the next four years but under the proviso that the northern grandstand is built. |
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| Drag them down here 7th June 2001 Cunningham MP Stephen Martin has used the floor of Federal Parliament to demand the St George Illawarra Dragons be relocated permanently to Wollongong. |
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| Hawks, Dragons partnership plans Illawarra Mercury, 2001 St George Illawarra and the Wollongong Hawks are set to team up to form an alliance. |
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| Time our team bit the bullet 17th September 2001 THE Illawarra has made an $8 million commitment to the St George Illawarra Dragons. It's time the Dragons made the same commitment to this sports passionate region. |
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| Dragons blow smoke over Cooks River stake 27th October, 2001 St. George-Illawarra plan to build a $60m stadium on the banks of the Cooks River and want to play their home games there from 2003. |
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| Dragon's Den 20th November 2001 ST GEORGE Illawarra have rejected the larger Stadium Australia and the antiquated Kogarah Oval and will again play their home games at the Sydney Football Stadium and WIN Stadium Wollongong. |
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| Saints home in Gong 24th December 2001 THE St George Illawarra Dragons will play the majority of their NRL home games at WIN Stadium next year. |
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2002 - 2003
| Call to arms for R2K rebels March 18th, 2002 The Return to Kogarah group is stepping up its campaign to get St George Illawarra to abandon Aussie Stadium and use Kogarah Oval as their Sydney home base. |
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No ground |
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| Dragons to reconsider home base for Sydney May 28, 2002 The Dragons will again review tenure at Aussie Stadium later this year and if they keep getting dismal crowds like last Sunday's attendance, then a venue change could be on the cards. |
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| Kogarah pitch meets open ears July 25, 2002 A proposed return to Kogarah Oval is favoured by Wollongong and South Coast-based Dragons fans, says St George Illawarra chief executive Peter Doust. |
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| What’s needed to fix the oval August 8th 2002 Kogarah Council may be asked to find up to $350,000 to support the St. George-Illawarra Dragons’ return to Jubilee Oval next season, if the State Government provides a grant to support the oval’s upgrade. |
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| Council chiefs keen to Dragon ‘em back August 22nd 2002 The Dragons are “very, very confident” they will play home games at Kogarah next season, following the NRL’s much anticipated inspection of the ground last week. |
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| Bid for club guarantee August 29th 2002 Kogarah Mayor Jim Taylor is planning to ask St. George Leagues Club to guarantee a public appeal for funds to support the return of the Dragons to Jubilee Oval. |
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| Dragons back to Kogarah September 5, 2002 THOSE fire-breathing Dragons are coming back to Kogarah - and the happiest man around is St George rugby league immortal Johnny Raper. |
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| 'Home' ground killed us September 6, 2002 Lance Thompson and Mark Gasnier are adamant the Dragons would be safely in the finals by now if they had played this year's Sydney home games at Kogarah Oval. |
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| $50,000 requests, but Kogarah yet to put in September 12th 2002 Kogarah Council is to formally approach Hurstville & Rockdale councils asking them each to contribute $50,000 to the campaign to get the St. George-Illawarra Dragons back to Jubilee Oval. |
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| Jubileeation! December 17, 2002 St. George-Illawarra will add an additional 1000 seats to Kogarah Jubilee Oval after receiving approval of a State Government grant worth nearly $1 million. |
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| $1.3mil upgrade planned for Kogarah December 18, 2002 THE Dragons expect to see more Illawarra fans make the trek north to watch the red and whites when they return to a revamped Kogarah Oval next year. |
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| BHP Steel outfit joins the party February 25, 2003 The Jubilee Oval appeal has received a boost worth "tens of thousands of dollars" from BHP Steel Lysaght to help in the refurbishment of the ground for the Dragons return in May. |
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Hard yakka to complete Oval |
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| Doust douses oval speculation April 16, 2003 Dragons chief executive Peter Doust has poured cold water on speculation Jubilee Oval would not be ready for the homecoming game against Cronulla. |
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Saints Racing The Clock |
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| They'll be breathing fire at Kogarah as Dragons return
home April 30th, 2003 It's 1992. You're at Kogarah Oval. You wade through the sea of red-and-white clad supporters, pick a random fan and tell him/her that within a decade St George will form a joint-venture with the Illawarra Steelers... |
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| Saints go marching home again... hurrah May 3rd, 2002 ONE of the most famous and formidable rugby league grounds in the world is being reborn, RAY CHESTERTON reports on the resurrection of Kogarah Oval. |
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| Taking the game back to its roots May 3rd, 2003 A suburban football ground has a place in our hearts because of what we think it was, rather than what it is. It rekindles memories of gates thrown open at half-time and kids and their fathers flooding in for free. |
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| Rocking the suburbs May 5th, 2003 While rugby league yesterday confirmed it had gone full circle from the vision of corporate expansion back to its suburban roots, it seems some things never change. |
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| Saints thrive on big return May 5th, 2003 ST GEORGE Illawarra hooker Mark Riddell last night spoke of the enormous pressure his side faced going into yesterday's much-anticipated return to Kogarah's Jubilee Stadium. |
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| Field of dreams for dragons May 5th, 2003 BRYAN BROWN was sitting in the rebuilt grandstand. Prime Minister John Howard took time out from meetings with US President George W Bush to send a message of support. This was hardly your normal Sunday afternoon at the football. |
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Saleh's slur angers councillor 17 June 2003 A nasty insult has led a Hurstville councillor to withdraw his support for the St.George-Illawarra Dragons. |
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| Hurstville backs the Dragons’ Lair June 24, 2003 Hurstville Council has pledged $50,000 to the Dragons Back to Kogarah efforts, with councillors Bill Pickering and Chris Lee the only dissenters. |
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| Pokies tax will destroy joint ventures: club bosses July 30, 2003 Rugby league's joint ventures will break apart and most Sydney clubs will vacate the national competition if proposed increases in poker machine taxes are introduced, according to top officials. |
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WIN hotel is still on the table 27 August, 2003 Wollongong Sportsground Trust is forging ahead with plans to build a |
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Motocross could force switch 17 December, 2003 WOLLONGONG'S chances of hosting St George Illawarra's blockbuster matches against Newcastle and Penrith next season are under threat because of concerns about WIN Stadium's playing surface. |
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