Queensland Rugby Leauge

PNG Hunters Head Coach, Stanley Tepend in an official announcement today confirmed date before the 2023 Hostplus Cup season proper kicks off on March 11, 2023.

Tepend said this is exciting for the new boys to get a first taste of what to expect in the QRL competition when the season kicks off.

Capras have a strong connection with PNG since securing the services of former Hunters, Nixon Putt and McKenzie Yei among others.

Now at the age of 20, Stocks still wants to be the best, but in a very different way.

Born in Kimbe, on the Papua New Guinean island of New Britain, Stocks has spent the past 14 years shaping his rugby league journey in Mackay, after moving to Australia at the age of six.

Throughout this time he has given up promising opportunities in soccer to focus on league – citing the off-field “comradery” as the trump card. He joined the Mackay Cutters Academy at a young age and represented Queensland in the under 16s clash with New South Wales in 2018.