Ricky Stuart
FameRank: 6

"Ricky Stuart" is an Australian rugby league football coach, a former player of the 1980s and 90s and the current head coach of the Canberra Raiders rugby league team. He was also the head coach of the New South Wales State of Origin team, having replaced Craig Bellamy (rugby league)/Craig Bellamy following a fifth consecutive failure in the 2010 State of Origin series/2010 series. Stuart had previously been coach of the Australian national rugby league team/Australian national side, and has coached National Rugby League clubs, the Sydney Roosters (taking them to three consecutive grand finals from 2002–2004), Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and the Parramatta Eels.

More Ricky Stuart on Wikipedia.

You can only call yourself a tough person or a tough team if you experience tough times.

We're in a really tough period, we've got some good teams to play over the next month but it's how we handle the tough period that will determine the result at the back end of the season. We will definitely stick solid as a team.

There ain't no soft excuses, we played poorly today and got beaten and we should have got beaten a lot more than what we did.

It's been a very costly weekend for the club.

It does make the job tougher playing a big pack like Brisbane but it gives a number of young blokes the opportunity now.

It knocks around our cohesion a little bit. We've got to find a new combination there now.

We can't be too flattered by the result.

It was quite pleasant to sit back in the end after 50 minutes of frustrating football.

I have seen similar incidents this year that haven't attracted such a substantial grading.