Season preview reveals big signings, upgrades and a new committee
By Kirra Livingstone
BIG things are coming to the Stanley River Wolves Rugby League Club, including a refreshed committee, major clubhouse upgrades and dominant senior signings.
New club president, Sam Cooper, has previewed the 2025 Wolves season, and has bright plans for the club.
“We want to bring a premiership obviously, that’s what every club president wants,” he said.
“But I suppose my mantra is I don’t just want to produce good footballers, I want to produce good humans as well which starts with our juniors.
“That was our big focus with our senior recruits they had to be good people as well as good footballers.”
The club’s A Grade signings for next year promises a group of high calibre players who will help win the club a premiership.
The Beerwah Bulldogs A Grade team has gone back to back in premiership wins, with the Wolves keen to win one themselves.
“We have Cameron Cullen coming on board as a Wolf, he played NRL previously and he’s possibly the biggest signing on the Sunshine Coast to be honest,” he said.
“He played for the Brisbane Broncos and he was with West Panthers last year in the BRL.
“I think he’s been in and out of a few of the NRL systems, but he was with the Dolphins as a junior.”
The Wolves also signed new recruit Gareth Friedrich who was an “extremely good” BRL player.
Ben King has re-signed with the club, who played in NRL systems and is becoming a dominant leader of the pack after this year’s season.
The Stanley River club is also doubling their dressing sheds to better accommodate female players, with the upgrades costing the club $480,000.
They received funding assistance from the Moreton Bay Council, Queensland Government and the QRL.
“We want to better accommodate our girls, we have a lot of girls playing nowadays which is excellent,” Sam said.
“We are trying to have more space for them and to be separate from the boys.
“We are also looking at getting a announcers box in the middle of field where we can put our scoreboards on and store a bit of gear out there.”
With new signings, comes new committee members, with Sam as club president, Jarrod as junior vice president, and Paul Potts as senior vice president for next year’s season.
Bree is the club treasurer, while Lauren is the secretary.
Sam also was the junior vice president this year.
“It’s a good team and we all get along, obviously we have our disagreements here and there but at the end of the day we all have the club’s best interests at heart,” Sam said.
“Jarrod is excellent and he has worked with the NRL and QRL before.”
