GET set for the Wolves invasion!

Everywhere you look, everywhere you go - expect a Wolves connection.

The Super League club are looking to flood the market, become the town's 'good citizen' and bring about cohesion and spirit in the community.

It is chief executive Peter Deakin's way of building the Wolves into a force again and the man he has appointed as community development officer to deliver the programme is Adam Jude.

The same Adam Jude who starred in three Championship-winning seasons for Woolston Rovers Rugby League Club and who captained Great Britain Students RL team.

He also used to be a ball boy for the Wire when he was a youngster but the tracksuit touchline days have been exchanged for business suit and office and the 26-year-old is revelling in his new position.

Adam says: "Being a Warrington lad and having grown up watching the team, this is a dream job for me.

"It is superb to be working alongside Peter with his track record. He's a guru in this field and I'm going to be learning off the master.

"So that was a big attraction to the job for me and also having the chance to give something back to my home town was something I wanted to do."

Adam, of Orford Green, is engaged to Karen and has a one-year-old son Isaac.

He came to the Wolves via St. John's School and University College, Warrington, where he gained a leisure and business degree. Three months of his course involved work experience as a development officer with top Australian RL club Brisbane Broncos.

His role, which is funded by NormidTec, will keep him extremely busy working alongside youth development officer Paul Darbyshire, education officer Dave Prince and hjis former Woolston teammate Neil Kelly, who is Warrington RL development officer with Warrington Borough Council.

Adam says: "The programme Paul, Dave and Neil have been working on has been excellent with RL being promoted to 6,000 primary school children who have passed through the Wilderschool project since September 1998.

"Now it is for me to build on this but in the whole community. I will be using the club's players as role models to go into schools and positively deliver messages on issues such as health, drugs, crime and truancy. Youngsters can relate to players better than officials of organisations.

"I have already liased and made contact with organisations around the town such as the local education department, the police, youth services, Warrington 2000 and Agenda 21.

"But players will also be available for events ranging from summer fetes to a school play. The emphasis is the whole community and it will be like a 'closeness to a hero' approach. I'm always going to be available for people to let us know about their event.

"Our aim is to be like a good citizen, we want to be the good guys giving back to the community and generating a positive cohesion and spirit in Warrington."

Also among the plans are a relaunch of Wilderschool, the scheme where classes visit Wilderspool for lessons, a stadium tour and rugby skills sessions, and a lifelong learning centre - to be used daily by the community - is to be built at the Fletcher Street end of the ground where the players' weights room used to be.

Adam's overall goal is to achieve the ethos of family fun and affordability and to make a name for the club in the town and in the game.

By mid-September the groundwork is expected to be over with the community development programme kicking into action. You have been warned - Wolves mania is on its way!

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