Stadium costs rise again.

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I can't wait to see us in there.

It is a shame our initial deal was torn up though.
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Evidently the black seats are going to remain in the upper tiers.

That's *****. Will look awful.
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where did you hear that?
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Twitter from dg...unless it was bogus
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They may well remain for the Rugby world cup, but won't be by the time we move in
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Seems the roof is not quite perfect:
Sean Ingle ‏@seaningle
...there's a hole in the stadium roof and the Express hacks have had to move after getting drenched...
Sean Ingle is a Guardian journalist at the OS covering the Anniversary Games.
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"WHU_Del"]Seems the roof is not quite perfect:
Sean Ingle ‏@seaningle
...there's a hole in the stadium roof and the Express hacks have had to move after getting drenched..

Sean Ingle is a Guardian journalist at the OS covering the Anniversary Games.

Seems like a perfect design feature to me drenching Hacks!!
Adding a few more in the future away section will be another modification I would go with too!!

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Call me pernickety, but I'm watching the athletics on telly, specifically athletes warming up in the warm up area....and I'm thinking 'blimey, a stratomillion pound stadium and they can't even put a lick of dulux on the wall blocks'
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Apparently the new track is going to be blue.

(Not that it will make a difference to us since it will be covered most of the time!)
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