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The Canberra Times had broken the story exactly a month earlier, but on this day the front page confirmed the mighty Canberra Raiders would shift their home ground to their home town.
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The Raiders would shift from Seiffert Oval in Queanbeyan to Bruce Stadium for the 1990 season.
The Australian Institute of Sport was happy to have their facility getting some more use, already worried about high maintenance costs. The article flagged it might be known as 'Raiders Stadium' but Bruce it remained for years to come.
The forecast improvements that would be made thanks to government and club funding would be a new playing surface, a covered grandstand and media and corporate boxes. Capacity would jump to 25,000, an important change given the club's popularity was making Seiffert (home ground since the club's first season in '82) too squishy.
The stadium proved a very happy hunting ground in 1990, in which the club won 10 of their 13 games there on the way to becoming back-to-back premiers.
See: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/11057656