The History of the Newcastle Jets FC starts at their inception in 2000 by businessman Con Constantine after the collapse of the city's previous football club the Newcastle Breakers. The Breakers were dissolved when Soccer Australia revoked its NSL licence at the conclusion of the 1999/2000 season. At the formation of Newcastle United the home ground was moved back to where Newcastle KB United played, now known as EnergyAustralia Stadium. 2000–09 Pre A-League Years The club originally played in the NSL, where they were quite competitive, competing in two of four finals series and finishing second behind Perth Glory in the 2001-02 season. The club during the NSL wore what could be considered traditional sporting colors of blue and red, which was also worn by the Newcastle Knights Rugby league team. NSL history Brackets indicate statistics including NSL finals. * Shows the best league finish achieved ** Shows the best finals finish achieved † For the 2002–03 season, a round robin contest between the top six was undertaken to see who would be Grand Finalists. Newcastle were placed sixth and last in this competition, although a washed out game against Northern Spirit was never played as it did not affect the outcome of the top two. A-League The club renamed and re-badged themselves the Newcastle United Jets Football Club at the start of the new national league, the A-League. This was done to try and create and project a new image of the club and to avoid confusion with the Premier League club Newcastle United. The name "Jets" is a reference to RAAF Base Williamtown, located just 20 kilometres north of Newcastle. The club's logo depicts three F/A-18 Hornets, which the Royal Australian Air Force has based at Williamtown. Former England and Australia manager Terry Venables was reported as favourite to become the team's technical director, including reports from the Jets, but this was confirmed by Venables' agent as a 'no-go'. Instead, the club signed Richard Money for the 2005–06 season. In 2006 Money was replaced with Nick Theodorakopoulos after Money returned to England to take the manager's job at Walsall. In October 2006 after recording no wins during the Pre-Season Cup and during the first seven rounds of A-League matches, Theodorakopoulos became the first coach to be sacked in the club's A-League's history. His assistant Gary Van Egmond was the caretaker coach for the remainder of the 2005–6 season,