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Revision as of 07:43, 10 October 2008

Ricky Stuart
Personal information
Full nameRicky Stuart
Height176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight74 kg (11 st 9 lb)
Playing information
PositionHalfback
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1988–1998 Canberra Raiders 203 39 7 25 195
1999–2000 Bulldogs 40 2 0 2 10
Total 243 41 7 27 205
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1990–1994 New South Wales 14 3 0 0 12
1990–1994 Australia 9 1 0 1 5
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
2002–2006 Sydney Roosters 130 78 1 51 60
2007– Cronulla Sharks 35 17 0 18 49
Total 165 95 1 69 58
Representative
Years Team Gms W D L W%
2004 Country Origin 1 1 0 0 100
2005 New South Wales 3 2 0 1 67
2006– Australia 9 8 0 1 89
As of 2 June 2008

Ricky Stuart (born 7 January 1967 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales) is an Australian former representative rugby league and rugby union footballer - a dual-code international - and the current coach of the Australian rugby league team. He also played State of Origin for New South Wales in the first Gould era. At club level, Ricky Stuart was the half-back of the "Green Machine", the Canberra Raiders team that won 3 premierships in 1989, 1990 and 1994 and were runners up in 1991 who were coached by Tim Sheens. He is currently coach of the Cronulla Sharks and was formerly coach of the Sydney Roosters until late in the 2006 season.

Playing career

Stuart's union career was with the Queanbeyan Whites before being selected for the Wallabies tour of Argentina in 1987. Stuart had originally played rugby league as a child and his father was a prominent member of Canberra's football community[citation needed] but he took up rugby union while attending St Edmund's College.[1] Stuart would later remark that he could have earned more playing union due to shamateurism, than by moving back to his childhood game of league.[citation needed]

Stuart then switched codes to league and joined the Canberra Raiders team in 1988, winning the club's player of the year award that season. He was a key member of the club's most successful period in the late 1980s, playing halfback inside a backline including legendary talents Laurie Daley, Mal Meninga and Gary Belcher. Stuart won three premierships with the Canberra Raiders, playing 203 games and winning the Clive Churchill Medal in 1990. In 1992 and 1993 he was again named the Raiders' player of the year and in 1993 Stuart won the Dally M Medal for the Winfield Cup's Player of the Year.

Stuart's international rugby league debut in the 1st Test against Great Britain in London in October 1990 saw him become Australia's 38th dual code rugby international, following Michael O'Connor and preceding Scott Gourley. He played nine test matches for Australia from 1990, touring with the Australian side to Great Britain and France in 1990 and 1994. Stuart also played fourteen State of Origin matches for New South Wales. He was named man-of-the-match in the second game of the 1990 series.

Stuart retired from first grade after playing 40 games for the Canterbury Bulldogs in 1999-2000.

Coaching career

Sydney Roosters

Stuart began his first grade coaching career in 2002 with the Sydney Roosters, taking over from Graham Murray and winning the premiership in his first year as coach. In 2003 and 2004 Stuart-coached Roosters sides were beaten in Grand Finals, but the team struggled in 2005 and 2006 despite the high calibre of the player roster. Stuart's contract was terminated and he left the Roosters two weeks before the end of the 2006 season.

Cronulla Sharks

In 2007 Stuart took over as coach at the Cronulla Sharks with a two year contract. He replaced Stuart Raper.

Representative Coaching

In 2005, Stuart was appointed coach of the New South Wales. His coaching approach continued the Phil Gould legacy of matching the Queensland passion by focussing the NSW players' pride in the jumper and achievements of those who have worn it before.

In 2006 Stuart was appointed as coach of Australian national rugby league team, replacing Wayne Bennett after Australia's loss in the 2005 Tri-Nations final to New Zealand. Stuart has so far enjoyed success with the Kangaroos victors in the Anzac Tests of 2006 & 2007, in winning the Tri Nations series of 2006 thus regaining the mantle of World Champions and in the end of season 2007 one-off Test against New Zealand. To the end of 2007 his Australian coaching record stands at six victories from seven matches. He is expected to coach the Kangaroos through to the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.[2]

He has named his Australia squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.[3]

Ricky Stuart - Coaching Results by Season[4]
NRL Team Year Games Wins Losses Draws Win % Finals Series
Sydney Roosters 2002 28 20 7 1 71.43% Grand Final:
Roosters 30–Warriors 8
2003 27 19 8 0 70.37% Grand Final:
Panthers 18–Roosters 6
2004 27 21 6 0 77.78% Minor Premiers; Grand Final:
Bulldogs 16–Roosters 13
2005 24 11 13 0 45.83%
2006 22 8 14 0 36.36%
Cronulla Sharks 2007 24 10 14 0 41.6%
2008 25 18 7 0 70.83%
Career 178 108 69 1 60.67% at 20 September 2008

References

  1. ^ "Stuart given honour of addressing Wallabies" (Fee required). AAP Sports News (Australia) . 2003-11-14. Retrieved 2007-08-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ "Veteran Lockyer named in Australian squad". International Herald Tribune. 2008-08-01. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
  3. ^ "Manly six win Australia call-up". BBC. 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2008-10-07.
  4. ^ "Rugby League Tables". Retrieved 2007-08-12.

External links

Preceded by
Graham Murray
2000-2001
 Coach
Sydney Roosters
2002- 2006 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Stuart Raper
2004-2006
 Coach
Cronulla Sharks
2007- 		Succeeded by
incumbent
Preceded by
Phil Gould
2002-2004
 Coach
New South Wales
State of Origin
2005 		Succeeded by
Graham Murray
2006-2007
Preceded by
Wayne Bennett
2004-2005
 Coach
Australia
2006- 		Succeeded by
incumbent
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