Source:
Michael Lynch, The Age
NEWCASTLE was the most improved team in the league last year and, had it been able to start the season in the manner it finished, arguably could have taken the championship.
The Hunter Valley club endured a disastrous opening, failing to win a match until its seventh game, beating the New Zealand Knights.
The Jets were bottom of the table after the first seven matches and coach Nick Theodorakopoulos paid the price, losing his job.
The team was transformed under his replacement, assistant coach and ex-Socceroo defender Gary van Egmond.
The Jets became the form side of the competition in the last 14 rounds, embarking on a powerhouse run in which they took third spot.
Source: The Australian
AUSTRALIA’S Casey Stoner has won the Czech Moto GP to consolidate his position at the top of the world standings.
The 21-year-old Ducati rider came home ahead of American duo John Hopkins and defending world champion Nicky Hayden, riding a Suzuki and Honda respectively, to claim his seventh win from 12 races this season.
Stoner, who started in pole position, led from start to finish and his 14th career win crucially extended his lead over seven-time world champion and championship rival Valentino Rossi to 60 points.
Source: Dean Ritchie, Daily Telegraph
NEWCASTLE’S horror season worsened last night with revelations captain Danny Buderus is poised to cut short his Knights contract and that rival clubs have begun circling star forward Steve Simpson.
The two Knights champions have been caught up in the current Newcastle crisis of sinking morale, with Buderus publicly questioning coach Brian Smith’s methods and Simpson angry at the club’s treatment of Kirk Reynoldson.
Buderus is under contract until the end of next season with an option for 2009.
But it now seems certain Buderus will quit Newcastle at the end of next season and finish his stellar career in England.
Sporting groups wanting to use a Newcastle City Council sportsground this summer need to submit an application by Friday 7 September.
Sports Liaison Officer HAYLEY DELLACA says it is important for clubs intending to use a park or field to put an application in to Council.
"We certainly don’t want four sporting teams turning up on the same afternoon and the same time to play a game and have to turn someone away."
"Applications need to include training times, competition days and requirements for access to canteens, amenities and lighting."
Sporting associations already registered with Council have been sent applications however all other groups are able to visit Council’s website www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au, go to get active and play sport and download the forms or call Council on 4974 2812.
Source: Newcastle City Council
Newcastle Regional Museum farewells its building with a big closure party
Newcastle Regional Museum is leaving its home of more than 20 years to a bigger and better site at the Honeysuckle Rail Workshops and will farewell the old brewery building at Newcastle West on Sunday 26 August.
Museum Director GAVIN FRY says it will be a bitter sweet day for talented staff members who have worked at the site for many years.
Source: Hunter Business Chamber
Hunter Business Chamber today welcomed developments for the Intertrade site and called on the NSW Government to ensure coordination of port and land development associated with the site at the former steel works land at Mayfield.
Chamber CEO, Doug Parrish, said many business people would invest in the area once the overall direction was clear.
“The Government has attracted an outstanding field of consortiums willing to develop the site. The fact that three Hunter companies are involved is an added bonus to the region. Each of these companies has the confidence of the broader business community.”
A new and sophisticated entertainment venue that doubles as a space for local business has been launched into the Newcastle market.
Developed by local business women, Jaime Turney and Michelle Williams, The Jaffa Group has introduced a new and innovative way for women to be entertained.
The decision to create Raw Jaffa came from their own experiences in trying to find a place that offered a fun yet sophisticated alternative. The Raw Jaffa concept, although not new to many parts of the world and now in Sydney and Melbourne, is the first of its type in the region.
Raw Jaffa is a place for a group of women to work with resident artists to learn the finer points of sketching ‘in live’. The group is then taught in a two and a half hour session to sketch a naked male through a series of poses.
Raw Jaffa will be a new offering for the pre-bridal celebration market, birthday parties and social gatherings. Raw Jaffa will be available to the public from Friday evenings through to Sunday evenings each week.
Source: Business Coalition for Workplace Reform
Big and small business have taken the unprecedented step of launching an advertising campaign to highlight the benefits of workplace reform and the costs of turning the clock back on this key driver of future prosperity.
The alliance of business groups – the Business Coalition for Workplace Reform (BCWR) – today unveiled the first in a series of television advertisements to demonstrate to millions of Australians the importance of two decades of industrial relations reform by both Labor and Coalition Governments in transforming outdated workplace culture.
Source: Hunter Business Chamber
The proposed redevelopment of the Newcastle Mall was a message to the rest of Australia that Newcastle was becoming its premier regional city that major investors would recognise as a genuine alternative to capital cities, the CEO of Hunter Business Chamber, Doug Parrish, said today.
“The foundation for this massive investment was laid over the past decade by both public and private investment in Honeysuckle and other parts of the city. We have shown investors there are real commercial advantages in Newcastle and they are beginning to hear that message.”
“Our own major commercial enterprises including Sparke Helmore, Buildev and NIB along with Government agencies have led the way.”
Mr Parrish said Newcastle City Council had encouraged redevelopment in the regional capital but needed to ensure this major proposal did not falter.
Source: The Age
It will be a hard act to follow.
More than 55,000 packed Melbourne’s Telstra Dome for last season’s A-League grand final.
Archie Thompson scored five magical goals.
And the Melbourne Victory thumped Adelaide 6-0 to claim the first A-League minor premiership-championship double.
February 18, 2007, has been described as the greatest night in the history of Australian club football.
It was certainly the greatest night in the Victory’s short history.
The big challenge now – for both the Victory and the A-League – will be to back it up in what Football Federation Australia have dubbed A-League Version 3.
Several big names – or in Fred’s case big player, small name – have departed.
As well as the Victory’s star Brazilian, Socceroos David Carney (Sydney FC) and Nicky Carle (Newcastle) have secured European contracts.
Melbourne championship defender Adrian Leijer is at English Premier League club Fulham while Jets excitement machine Milton Rodriguez is back in Colombia.
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