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N ulkaba residents have expressed seri-ous concern over a proposed 300-site manufactured home estate at the end of Fletcher Street off Wine Country Drive.

The development application for the Hermitage Ponds Lifestyle Resort was last week placed on public exhibition by Cessnock City Council.

Paul Hermann, whose property shares a border with the proposed development site, said residents were aware of the need for more affordable housing in the Cessnock area.

“The property to be developed is currently zoned RU2 rural landscape. Council has the authority to approve this development by rezoning this land and applying conditions on the developer and if this happens, it will just be the beginning of the end,” Mr Hermann said.

“The development is massive and will have a real impact on our quality of life.

“I believe all of Nulkaba will be affected in some way by this low-cost, medium-density estate, which is defined as a caravan park under the provi-sions of the Cessnock Local Environment Plan 2011.

“We all live here because it is quiet, private, safe for our children, it has a nice country feel and we all have the expectation of capital gain on our properties.

“One of the impacts will be in terms of traffic flow up and down Fletcher Street as well as entry onto Wine Country Drive.”

Plan for 300-site manufactured home estate a concern for residents

Nulkaba residents Paul and Suzanne Hermann, Olivia Harris and son Josh, 1, with the proposed resort development site in the distance

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Documentation shows the estate would be targeted to the over-55 market and include a club house, theatrette, indoor and outdoor dining areas, indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, a bowling green, tennis court and a storage area for caravans and motor homes.

“The lodgement was made following extensive discussions with Cessnock City Council and the compilation of detailed specialist reports in support of the proposal,” spokesman for the proposed resort Matthew Wales told The Hunter Post.

“This is a very large, largely unconstrained

35-hectare site which has enabled the applicant to design a compliant MHE development with substantial landscaped buffers to adjoining rural/residential properties to the south and west.

“The proposal has been deliberately designed to ensure that the proposed MHE sites are substantially set back from adjoining boundaries to provide landscaped screening for privacy and visual amenity together with large areas of passive open space for proposed residents.

“The applicant is highly conscious of the need to minimise impacts on the local community and environment.”

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Stop bickering, bribery, threats:start building jobs for the nationAttempts by governments to bribe and threaten us, or deflect attention from the real issues with scare campaigns, put this nation in danger of becoming a foreign-owned backwater where all the profits go overseas and our grandchildren are consigned to serving coffee for low wages and meagre tips.

While the Abbott government claims they are creating more jobs than the previous Labor government, what sort of jobs are they and do they just put a veneer over rising unemployment, growing alarmingly high for young people?

To justify their deceits, governments are announcing crackdowns on people on welfare, banging the law-and-order drum, trying to raise the level of xenophobia by talking up terrorism and the so-called Muslim threat, or claiming that the only way ahead is to sell off and privatise the factory and the farm.

Since the Hawke-Keating era gave them an inch on privatisation of some public assets, Liberal governments have taken a proverbial mile with plans to fund what will ultimately become private assets with the sale of other public assets; with countless recent statements in NSW linking much-needed and deserved spending in the Hunter with the sale of electricity assets.

Such short memories in the wake of the Queensland election, where Campbell Newman was thrown out mostly for the same tactic. And

much of Queensland that turned on him is based on, guess what, coal and power generation.

There are only so many things you can sell, and only a certain amount of cutting you can do, before your nation starts bleeding at the extremi-ties of both its economic system and its social cohesion. Are Australians’ memories so short that they have forgotten the human cost, and streets in flames, of Thatcher’s Britain.

Where are the big-picture ideas of creating a clever country that exports products, not its own people’s jobs? As former Governor-General Sir William Deane said, our society will be judged on how it treats its most vulnerable.

This is the country that invented, made and exported the Hills Hoist and Victa lawnmower, once made steel, and built everything from its own ships to household appliances that lasted a lifetime.

When will our current generation of politicians realise that their job is to create long-term, well-paid jobs that provide the taxes to give people the education, health and environmental security which is at the heart of modern human exist-ence. Jobs equal taxpayers, equals services for all, equals dignity.

It’s time voters demanded the Hunter’s fair share of job-creating projects without threats and bribes. Hunter people have surely sweated enough to deserve that at least.

Where are the big-picture ideas of creating a clever country?

RICHARD FRENCH

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N ine Hunter schools will undergo major revamps if the Baird Government is re-elected later

this month.Visiting the region last week, Education

Minister Adrian Piccoli said 14 schools from across the Hunter and Central Coast would share in $28 million in funds to enhance their appearance and improve classrooms.

“First impressions are important in terms of the way parents perceive a school and students perceive a school, but of course it’s what happens in the classroom that’s most important,” he said.

“Improving classrooms, designing them in a more modern way, is very important to learning and at the end of the day what we want are student results across all of our schools.”

Mr Piccoli said the funding was not dependent on the government’s contro-versial plan to lease the state’s electricity assets.

“This funding we’re able to do because we’ve run the NSW budget efficiently and effectively in a way Labor was never able to do,” he said.

“When you run your budget properly it then provides you the benefits and really this investment here, this $28 million, is the dividend of good economic manage-ment by the Liberals and Nationals in NSW.”

Charlestown MP Jodie Harrison criticised the announcement as being “all style, no substance”.

“Having previously cut $1.7 billion from the education budget, including $800 million from TAFE, a few dollars

for a new front gate is insulting,” she said.

Callaghan College at Waratah, Cardiff, Kotara, Francis Greenway, Glendale, Belmont, Kurri Kurri, Merewether and West Wallsend high schools are among those that will receive funding.

Merewether High School principal Christine Rippon said the school planned to use its $1.5 million share of the funds to refit older classrooms to allow more space for collaborative learning.

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Bolwarra Public School will receive a $5 million upgrade if the Baird Government is re-elected, Education Minister Adrian Piccoli announced last week.

The works would see a new block constructed on the site housing a new library and eight classrooms, which would replace six demountable classrooms.

Mr Piccoli said that an increased demand was being seen but not enough to warrant the construction of a new school in the city’s west.

“We’re seeing increased demand, increased student growth [and] we’re accommodating that,” he said.

“Where the demographics require a new school to be built, new schools get built.”

Mr Piccoli said that constructing a high school before there was sufficient demand could take numbers from existing high schools and reduce subject choices for the HSC, while some primary schools could be expanded to accommodate more students.

“It is well known throughout the Mait-land community that we need a new high school,” Labor candidate for Maitland Jenny Aitchison said.

“These comments show the minister doesn’t understand the region or our city’s growth needs.”

Bolwarra Public School principal Sue Swetnam said that the school had grown by 174 students since 2009, or about a class per year.

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B uskers are being called on to head to Cessnock this weekend to add to a street parade for the Reg Lind-

say Rodeo.Cessnock City Council and Cessnock

Chamber of Commerce have joined with rodeo organisers to turn Vincent Street into a sea of colour and music on Saturday morning ahead of the rodeo later that day and the unveiling on Sunday of a statue of Mr Lindsay, legendary country singer and long-time resident of the area who died in 2008 after a 50-year career which included three Golden Guitar awards.

“We’re so excited to be bringing the rodeo back to Cessnock,” Mr Lindsay’s wife Ros told The Post.

“The past two years, it had been held at Morriset and Tomago, but this year it’s back at the Cessnock racecourse and we couldn’t be happier.

“The statue has been a long time coming but it’s here and we can’t wait to unveil it at East Cessnock Bowling Club.”

Mrs Lindsay said a who’s who of the industry would be coming.

“Adam Harvey will be unveiling the statue and people like Chad Morgan, Judy Stone, Lucky Starr and Allan Caswell will

be coming along. It’s so wonderful to see how much Reg is still revered.”

Mrs Lindsay said many people did not know about Reg’s success in the US.

“He was the first Australian to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, he recorded four albums in Nashville and shared stages with people like Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton.”

Buskers and street performers are asked to perform acoustically on Saturday between 9am and noon.

For information, phone Tom Irwin on

0407 902 944. Racecourse festivities begin at noon with market stalls, enter-tainment, a bar and catering.

Rodeo action will start at 3pm. Entry prices are adults $20, children 14 years and under $10, senior citizens $15, family two adults and three children 14 years and under $60.

The statue will be unveiled at 11am on Sunday at the bowling club where for a gold coin people can enjoy live music.

See TE for Stephen Bisset’s interview with country music legend Chad Morgan

Street parade to mark dedication of statue of iconic country pioneer

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Visitors to the vineyards will enjoy a smoother ride with Cessnock and Singleton councils’ successful applica-tion for $16.7 million in state government Resources for Regions funding.

The councils lodged a joint submission seeking an upgrade for the intersection of Hermitage and Broke roads and improve-ments to the full 12 kilometres of Hermit-age Road.

Part of the funding will also go to increased tourist facilities, signage and a cycleway connecting Broke Road, Hermit-age Road, Old North Road, Deaseys Road and Wine Country Drive.

Cessnock City Council will contribute $300,000 and Singleton Council $100,000.

Cessnock council acting general manager Gareth Curtis said the council and community had been eagerly await-ing the outcome.

“Use of our road networks has substan-tially increased over the last 10 years and we now have the financial capacity to maintain and upgrade these roads to an acceptable and sustainable standard,” Mr Curtis said.

“Legacy impacts of mining have long affected our area, it’s great to know this funding will create significant economic diversity and much-needed jobs.”

The funding was part of $89 million in the current round of the Resources for Regions program, which aims to provide infrastructure for communities experi-encing pressures from mining activity, selected by an independent panel.

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The Taste Festival will return to Maitland this weekend, the first event to be held in the new Levee Precinct.

The Heritage Mall was closed off to events in June last year for construction to begin on Maitland City Council’s $14.8 million riverside revitalisation project.

The closure saw last year’s Aroma and Riverlights festivals move to the riverside car park while the construction work was being completed.

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A Greens plan to open 20 public sector energy agencies could be the answer to the Hunter’s

unemployment woes, NSW Upper House member John Kaye has said.

Dr Kaye launched the plan in Maitland last week with local candidate John Brown, Cessnock candidate Lindy Williams and the Upper Hunter candi-date, also named John Kaye.

The centres, to be spread across the state, would provide technical advice to householders as they made a switch to renewable power and low-income loans to fund the transition.

Dr Kaye estimated that it would cost $3.5 million to get one centre off the ground, not including the cost of the loans.

“In the long run they will pay for themselves as they invest more in the community and are able to share the benefits of lower power bills,” he said.

Dr Kaye said that the transition could happen in 15 years, creating jobs in areas such as design, marketing and installation.

“This means a lot of new jobs immedi-ately,” he said.

“The industry of the future that will generate more jobs than the coal industry is the transition to renewable energy.

“This is a region of high skills, excel-lent natural resources and the engi-neering know-how.”

Independent candidate Philip Penfold called the announcement “a classic thought bubble from the extreme Greens”.

“Of course we should support work

on renewable energy, though not such that it would require a significant cut to funding needed for health, education and law and order,” he said.

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T his weekend we will get the chance to celebrate some of the fantastic food and wine producers from

across the region when Maitland Taste comes to The Levee. This is exciting for a number of reasons. I enjoy sampling from the incredible variety of food and wine on offer, but it’s also another opportunity to come together as a community and showcase some of the amazing talents of our people.

In its seventh year, Maitland Taste is always a popular event on the calendar. The event has undergone a makeover and will of course be the first major event to be held at the new-look Levee in Central Mait-land. Cjildren will enjoy the Kids Patch and activity area while the grown-ups sample from the sparkling wine and seafood café hosted by Peterson House and the beer and

cheese bar presented by Morpeth Brewery & Beer Co and Hunter Belle Cheese. There is something for everyone’s taste buds.

Maitland Taste is on this weekend from 10am to 5pm on Saturday and 10am to 4pm on Sunday.

A lot of work goes into this very special event each year but it can only be a true success with the support of our commu-nity and the many volunteers and spon-sors who participate over the weekend. It’s always a great day out for family and friends. For more information about the event visit maitlandtaste.com.au

I would like to congratulate everyone who spent many hours working on last week’s commemoration of the 1955 floods to ensure it was a success. It was a great opportunity to reflect and remember the events which happened 60 years ago.

Come down to get a tasteof the new Levee Precinct

maitland mattersCR PETER BLACKMORE Maitland City Council Mayor

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Approval times for development applica-tions in Cessnock have been reduced by 25 days.

The turnaround time is now better than the state average.

The Local Development Performance Monitoring report for 2013-14 found Cess-nock’s average gross time to determine development applications was 52 days, lower than nearby local government areas.

Cessnock is approving DAs faster

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Saturday, March 149.30am to 11.30am - Introduction to

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10am onwards - Come and watch some great rugby league at Cessnock Sports-ground. Cessnock Goannas take on Berkeley Vale at 10am and a Newcastle Knights v Newtown NSW Cup match will kick off at 3pm. Free entry with Senior’s Card.

Monday, March 169.30am to 10.30am - Aqua-aerobics

class at Kurri Kurri Aquatic Centre. Suit-able for all fitness and swimming levels. Free. Also held on Wednesday and Friday.

10am to 2pm - Kurri Kurri Men’s Shed open day with morning tea provided, in the laneway behind Kurri Kurri Commu-nity Centre. Call for more information 4937 2603. Free

10am to 2pm - Cessnock Men’s Shed open day at Calvary Retirement Commu-nity grounds. Call 4990 1198 for more information. Morning tea and a wood-fired pizza lunch provided, gold coin per slice.

Tuesday, March 1710.30am to 11.30am - Seniors Choir

Concert at Cessnock Performing Arts Centre. Call 4990 7134 for more informa-tion. Free.

11.30am to 12.30pm - Young at Heart short film festival at Cessnock Performing Arts Centre. Call 4990 7134 for details. Free.

1pm to 4pm - Cessnock Gem and Mineral Club open day with displays. Devonshire teas, coffee and drinks available for purchase. For more information call 4990 3837. Free entry. Also on Thursday from 1pm to 4pm and Saturday from 10am to 4pm.

Wednesday, March 1810am to 2pm - Morning tea around the

campfire at The Old Brush Studio, Brunk-erville. Bookings essential on 4993 4399. Free.

Thursday, March 1910.30am to 12.30pm - Variety Concert

at Abermain Plaza Hall. Morning tea provided. Call 4930 4444 for more infor-mation. Free.

2pm to 4pm - Movie screening The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel at Cessnock

Cessnock and Maitland Seniors WeekSENIORS

Cessnock Library volunteer Gail Kerr, Cessnock Mayor Bob Pynsent and Cessnock Family History Research Group representative Graham Marsden

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Friday, March 209am to 11am - Cessnock Croquet Club.

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10am to 11.30am - Parlez-vous Français? Would you like to learn French? Kurri Kurri Library. French-style morning tea provided. Bookings essential on 4937 1638. Free.

2pm to 3.30pm - Parlez-vous Français? Would you like to learn French? Cess-nock Library. French-style afternoon tea provided.

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March 13 to 21Maitland Repertory Theatre presents

Antigone. Oedipus has just died in Colonus and Antigone and her sister decide to return to Thebes with the intention of helping their brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, avoid a prophecy that predicts they will kill each other in a battle for the throne of Thebes. Shows at 8pm on March 13, 14, 20, 21 and 2pm on March 15.

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rienced the tranquility that comes with being in a beautiful garden? At the beau-tiful Hunter Region Botanical Gardens, 2100 Pacific Highway, Heatherbrae, you can experience the beauty of the gardens while learning from senior psycholo-gists about the importance of practising techniques that lead to positive mental health, such as mindfulness, meditation and ways to handle anxiety and depres-sion. There will be interactive discus-sions and all seniors are welcome. Free. Bookings recommended. For further information contact Patricia Shearston on 4987 1655.

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Police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the stabbing death of Cessnock man Michael Moad in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Police were called to a house in Edgeworth St, Cessnock, about 12.15am and located Mr Moad with a number of stab wounds.

Officers applied CPR to Mr Moad but he died at the scene.

Shortly after that a white Holden Commo-dore driving past lost control and rolled into the established crime scene.

Police located a 50-year-old man inside the car with multiple wounds. He was taken to John Hunter Hospital in a stable condition.

The man was placed under police guard at the hospital until he underwent surgery and was able to help police with their inquiries.

Central Hunter Local Area Command Detective Inspector John Zdrilic said some of the injuries the man in the vehicle had received appeared to have been self-inflicted and that the situation was being treated as a domestic dispute between the two males and a female who was inside the house.

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Police are seeking information on the whereabouts of a prisoner who escaped from a minimum security facility in Cessnock on Sunday morning.

Blay Cunningham, 25 (pictured below), was last seen at the Cessnock Correctional Facility just before 10am on Sunday.

Police have been told the man was briefly sighted on Verdelho Avenue, Mount View.

Cunningham was reported missing to Central Hunter Local Area Command, who commenced a search of the area.

He is described as being of Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander appearance, about 167cm tall, of slim build and with dark brown hair and brown eyes.

He was last seen wearing green tracksuit pants and carrying a white t-shirt.

Police are warning the public not to approach Cunningham if they see him but to instead phone 000 immediately.

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Head to head over coal seam gas

(Left to right) Cessnock City Council’s Ian Turnbull, NSW Department of Trade and investment’s Brendan Barrett, John Edye, University of Newcastle’s Professor Garry Willgoose and AGL’s John Ross and Mike Roy at last week’s Coal Seam Gas community forum in Cessnock

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V ocal campaigner John Edye has warned that it is not just “dope-smoking hippies” who were

uniting in the fight against coal seam gas exploration in the Hunter Valley. Speaking at a community forum in Cess-nock last week, Mr Edye urged residents to not be taken in by the “spin” from gas companies.

“There is no consideration of communi-ties and there appears to be a disgusting rush to rip as much profit out of the ground as possible,” Mr Edye said.

“It is outrageous that the government is softening up the regulations.”

AGL’s head of gas operations Mike Roy

said an increased use of coal seam gas would lead to downward pressure on prices for NSW consumers.

“Currently only 5% of the gas supplied to NSW consumers is sourced in this state,” Mr Roy said. “The remaining 95% has to be brought in from South Australia, Queensland and Victoria and there is a significant cost for that ‘taxi ride’ to get it here.”

Asked if the price would be maintained close to the current level, Mr Roy said the company had an obligation to sharehold-ers and could not sell under market rates.

Mr Roy said the current two-kilometre exclusion zone around residential areas in much of the Cessnock local govern-ment area meant coal seam gas explora-tion projects were currently unviable.

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S tockland’s popular McKeachie’s Run community in Aberglasslyn has truly come of age with the opening of a local shopping centre and the

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opened late last year with tenants including a Woolworths supermarket, BWS bottle shop, beauty salon, seafood takeaway café, family medical centre and pharmacy.

The shopping centre is located close to the entrance to the community and includes parking for more than 120 cars.

Stockland has also relocated its McKeachie’s Run land sales office to the centre.

The arrival of Woolworths was another major milestone for the community, which now boasts its own child care centre and multi-use sporting field with an amenities building, meeting rooms, change rooms and a kiosk.

The McKeachie’s Sportsground has been chosen as the location for the Hunter’s first Live Life Get Active program of free fitness training camps. The program began in late November, providing educa-tion on health, fitness and nutrition with

the backing of former Olympian and Commonwealth Games champion Jane Flemming.

Residents also made good use of the new outdoor space recently with more than 400 people attending a free screen-ing of family favourite movie Frozen. The film was chosen by a vote by fans on the McKeachie’s Run Facebook page.

Other popular local events include the hotly contested annual Christmas lights competition and Easter egg hunt.

Stockland regional manager Steve Barlow said that the past 12 months had seen substantial progress at McKeachie’s Run.

“We are delighted to have the new shopping village open and the Live Life Get Active program running in our community,” Mr Barlow said. “McKeach-ie’s Run is a young, active and closeknit community and we are expecting to see plenty of interest in the fitness sessions,” he said.

“McKeachie’s Run has really come of age over the past year for the hundreds of families who already call this community home.”

McKeachie’s Run is participating in Stockland’s 2015 Take Stock event, which

offers $10,000 off a range of selected new home packages until March 8.

Home sites currently start at only $159,000 while house-and-land packages are priced from $369,500.

To find out more, visit the new McKeachie’s Run land sales office, phone 13 LAND (5263), or go to www.stockland.com.au/mckeachiesrun.

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Run is a real community

The layout of McKeachie’s Run where houses and land are still available

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Newcastle’s No.1 Sportsground hosted Sheffield Shield action last week, with a second in-nings collapse from NSW hand-

ing Western Australia an outright victory.After posting a competitive first innings

total of 345 thanks to a century from wick-etkeeper Peter Nevill, NSW restricted the visitors to 300, with Test spinner Nathan Lyon taking three wickets.

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While Saturday’s local derby against the Central Coast Mariners failed to match the intensity of pre-game jibes and sledges, Jets fans

can take heart from the team’s second clean sheet of the season in the 0-0 draw.

A controversial decision from referee Adam Fielding denied the Jets a goal in the first half.

A shot from Mitchell Cooper on the edge of the box cannoned into the crossbar and bounced down in the vicinity of the goal-line

with the home side claiming a goal.But Fielding said the ball had not crossed the

line, with TV replays unable to provide defini-tive proof either way.

Jets coach Phil Stubbins did not criticise the decision and said it was a continuation of the unlucky nature of the team’s play this season.

“It hasn’t been a season where things have gone our way or fell in our laps,” he said.

“But we just keep going. To create luck we need to keep working very hard. And cultur-ally we’re good as a group.”

Stubbins went on to say Cooper had been im-pressive for the home side.

“Before the game, what we expected and wanted from young Mitchell Cooper was ex-actly what we required. He got himself three strikes at goal,” he said.

The coach also highlighted the effort from new Serbian signing Enver Alivodic.

“From a guy who came here from minus-10 or so degrees, he’s obviously not got the fitness we want . . . you look at [Lee] Ki-Je he was ex-ceptional for me and if we can get Enver any-where near the physical state of Ki-Je in such a short period of time he’ll be an asset for us,” Stubbins said.

The Jets are in action at home again this week

when they take on Sydney FC on Friday night at Hunter Stadium. Kick-off is at 7.40pm.

Sydney FC head into the match on the back of a free-flowing 4-3 win over the Western Syd-ney Wanderers last weekend in which they came back from 3-0 down to break the Wan-derers' hearts.

A-League ladder: Perth Glory 36pts (+8 goal difference), Melbourne Victory 33pts (+15), Ad-elaide United 33pts (+13), Wellington Phoenix 33pts (+12), Sydney FC 32pts (+9), Melbourne City 24pts (-4), Brisbane Roar 22pts (-1), Central Coast Mariners 16pts (-16), Newcastle Jets 11pts (-24), Western Sydney Wanderers 8pts (-12).

So near yet so far Newcastle Jets players unite before the kick-off of their 0-0 draw with Central Coast Mariners in Newcastle last weekend

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Knights captain Kurt Gidley has wel-comed a rare injury-free preparation ahead of the opening match of the NRL season against the Warriors at Hunter Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

Having made his debut in 2001, Gid-ley said he had experienced plenty of gruelling pre-seasons but this year’s had been one of the best for him per-sonally.

“I’ve probably missed the last few in previous years due to different op-erations at the end of the year,” Gidley said.

“This year I was back day one in No-vember and have basically trained all but a week throughout and am feeling really good and ready to go.”

Gidley said there was a sense of ex-citement around the club after the long

off-season under returning coach Rick Stone (pictured at right).

“Everyone is pretty excited, having our first game at home is always excit-ing for all the boys and our fans,” he said.

“Stoney is a local fella who grew up around the area, so I think all our fans can understand where he’s come from. He’s right across our junior system and even the guys in local league.”

Winger Akuila Uate, who scored three tries in the recent trial win over the Canberra Raiders, said he was feeling fit after a knee injury hampered him in the latter part of 2014.

“The trial was a good hit out and I ac-tually couldn’t believe that I played 80 minutes, but I felt good afterwards,” Uate said.

Knights assistant coach Danny Buder-us said the strong and aggressive War-riors side would be a significant test.

“The Warriors’ trial form has been great and they play a really good brand of footy,” he said.

“They are big and it will be a really good test to see all the hard work eve-ryone’s put in during the pre-season.

The Warriors are expected to start the match as slight favourites.

New Zealand international stars Shaun Johnson, Manu Vatuvei and Si-mon Mannering will be joined this sea-son by the experienced Ryan Hoffman from the Melbourne Storm.

The match will kick-off at 4.30pm. Gates will open at 11.45am with the un-der-20s clash at midday and NSW Cup match at 2.10pm.

Fully-fi t Gidley all geared up for NRL home start