11 hours ago
🚨🚨 Attention members and supporters 🚨🚨![]()
Due to the current condition of the Alabaster Sports Complex playing fields, Council has confirmed a venue change to ensure the safety and welfare of our players, which has and will continue to always be our top priority - whether you’re a Sharkie or a visitor. ![]()
We CANNOT WAIT to share in this amazing tournament courtesy of travelling teams from afar. ![]()
HERENGA RANGATAHI TOURNAMENT
Sat 10- Sun 11 October![]()
📍 NEW VENUE: Robina Station Reserve
(Robina Raptors JRLC)
2 days ago
💙🤍🦈 IT’S FOREVER — ONE RUGBY LEAGUE FAMILY![]()
There are times when rugby league feels very big.![]()
And then there are weeks like these, when suddenly the jerseys, the scoreboards, the rivalries and the club colours become very, very small.![]()
Right now, there is an enormous amount of heartache across our wider rugby league community.![]()
Our hearts are particularly with our friends at Coomera Cutters and the families, teammates, coaches, volunteers and friends who are experiencing an unimaginable loss.![]()
We also hold close those at Southport Tigers and Te Hau Tai Tonga (South’s Maoris) who are supporting families through separate serious accidents at recent rugby league carnivals.![]()
And sadly, grief within our rugby league family is not something confined to the past few weeks.![]()
This year Parkwood has farewelled two of our own.![]()
Tugun and Beaudesert has experienced the loss of a committee member.![]()
Other clubs, families and communities have carried losses and struggles that many of us may never even know about.![]()
Different clubs. Different circumstances. Different families. But the same game connects us.![]()
And right now, perhaps the most important thing we can do is remind each other that you do not have to carry the hard stuff alone.![]()
💙 PLEASE REACH OUT.![]()
Reach into your inner circle.![]()
Reach into your outer circle.![]()
Talk to your partner. Your parent. Your brother. Your sister. Your mate. Your teammate. Your coach. Your manager. Your committee member. Your neighbour. Your GP.![]()
Talk to someone you haven’t spoken to for six months if they’re the person you know will listen.![]()
And if the first person doesn’t quite understand — tell another one.![]()
You don’t need to have the perfect words.
You don’t need to be able to explain exactly what is wrong.
You don’t need to wait until things become unbearable before asking for help.![]()
Sometimes it can simply start with:![]()
“I’m not doing so great.”![]()
And for the rest of us — look around.![]()
Check on the loud one.
Check on the quiet one.
Check on the person who always seems to have everything together.![]()
Check on the coach, the volunteer, the parent standing alone, the teammate who has gone a little quiet and the mate who hasn’t been around lately.![]()
Ask twice.![]()
Listen without judgement.![]()
Don’t try to fix everything. Sometimes your job is simply to sit beside someone and help them take the next step.![]()
Because there is something else we want every member of our Sharks family — particularly our young people — to remember:![]()
It’s forever.![]()
The impact we have on the people who love us is forever.![]()
The place we hold within our families, our friendships, our teams and our club is forever.![]()
A moment of overwhelming pain does not need to become a permanent decision.![]()
There is help. There are people who will listen. There are professionals whose entire job is to help carry you through the moments when life feels too heavy.![]()
And asking for that help is something we should encourage just as strongly as we encourage asking a physio about an injury or a coach about our footy.![]()
🏉 WHERE TO REACH OUT![]()
📞 Lifeline — 13 11 14
24/7 crisis support.
Text: 0477 13 11 14![]()
📞 Kids Helpline — 1800 55 1800
Free, confidential support 24/7 for young people aged 5–25.![]()
📞 Beyond Blue — 1300 22 4636
24/7 mental health support.![]()
📞 13YARN — 13 92 76
24/7 crisis support from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander crisis supporters.![]()
📞 White Cloud Foundation — 07 3155 3456
Tele-mental health support. Young Queenslanders aged 12–18 can also contact White Cloud directly on this number.![]()
📞 1300 MH CALL — 1300 642 255
Queensland’s 24/7 mental health access line, connecting callers with their nearest public mental health service.![]()
🏉 Family of League
Support is available to members of the rugby league community and their families who are doing it tough — financially, emotionally or socially.
Queensland: 07 3367 6080
Wellbeing: wellbeing@familyofleague.org.au![]()
And please remember that professional services are not the only doorway.![]()
Our Parkwood Sharks door is open too.![]()
If you don’t know who to call, where to start or what to say, find someone within our Club that you trust and simply say, “I need some help.”![]()
We’ll help you find the next door.![]()
To our friends at Coomera Cutters, Southport Tigers, Te Hau Tai Tonga, and to every rugby league family carrying grief, fear or uncertainty right now:![]()
Club colours don’t matter in moments like these.![]()
We stand beside you.![]()
We remember those we’ve lost.![]()
We support those still fighting.![]()
And we look after those standing beside us.![]()
Because long after the final whistle, we are still one rugby league family.![]()
💙🤍🦈
Small but mighty. Together, always.
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