Ricky Stuart

Ricky Stuart
AM
Personal information
Full nameRicky John Stuart
Born (1967-01-07) 7 January 1967
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight83 kg (183 lb; 13 st 1 lb)
Playing information
PositionHalfback
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1988–98 Canberra Raiders 203 39 7 25 195
1999–00 Canterbury Bulldogs 40 2 0 2 10
Total 243 41 7 27 205
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1990 NSW City 1 2 0 0 8
1990–94 New South Wales 14 3 0 0 12
1991 NSW Country 1 0 0 0 0
1990–94 Australia 9 1 0 1 5
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
200206 Sydney Roosters 130 78 1 51 60
200710 Cronulla Sharks 91 38 0 53 42
2013 Parramatta Eels 24 5 0 19 21
2014 Canberra Raiders 285 150 1 134 53
Total 530 271 2 257 51
Representative
Years Team Gms W D L W%
2004 NSW Country 1 1 0 0 100
2005 New South Wales 3 2 0 1 67
200608 Australia 11 10 0 1 91
201112 New South Wales 6 2 0 4 33
Source:
As of 21 November 2024

Ricky John "Sticky" Stuart AM (born 7 January 1967) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach who is the head coach of Canberra in the National Rugby League (NRL) and a former rugby league footballer who played as a halfback in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

He also replaced Craig Bellamy as head coach of the New South Wales State of Origin team following a fifth consecutive failure in the 2010 series. Stuart had previously been coach of the Australian national side, and has coached NRL clubs the Sydney Roosters (taking them to three consecutive grand finals from 2002 to 2004), Cronulla-Sutherland and Parramatta.

A former international representative rugby league and rugby union player – a dual-code international – Stuart also played State of Origin for New South Wales in the first Gould era. At club level, Stuart was the half-back of the "Green Machine", the Canberra Raiders team who were coached by Tim Sheens and won three premierships in 1989, 1990 and 1994, besides being runners-up in 1991. As a player Stuart was noted for his ability to throw long, spiralling passes to both the left and right sides of the field. As a coach Ricky has won one premiership.