Ricky Stuart

This appearance saw him become Australia's 38th dual code rugby international, following Michael O'Connor and preceding Scott Gourley.

He replaced Langer at halfback in the next test.

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

He was a key member of the club's most successful period in the late 1980s, and early 1990s, playing inside a backline including legendary talents Laurie Daley, Mal Meninga and Gary Belcher.

Stuart would go on to win three premierships with the Canberra Raiders.

Stuart was selected for the ACT Schoolboys in 1984.

Stuart's union career was with the Queanbeyan Whites before being selected for the Wallabies tour of Argentina in 1987.

Stuart played three tour matches but no Test matches.

Stuart played in both the Fly-half and Scrum-half positions.

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.

At club level, Stuart was the half-back of the "Green Machine", the Canberra Raiders team that won three premierships in 1989, 1990 and 1994 and were runners-up in 1991 who were coached by Tim Sheens.

As a player Stuart was noted for his ability to throw long, spiralling passes to both the left and right sides of the field.

Stuart was born in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia.

He had originally played rugby league as a child, but he took up rugby union while attending St Edmund's College.

After the 1989 Grand Final victory, Stuart travelled to England with the Raiders for the 1989 World Club Challenge which was lost to Widnes.

Stuart retired from first grade after playing 243 games for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Canberra Raiders in 1989 to 2000 after failing to recover from a recurring knee injury.

Stuart was named man-of-the-match in the second game of the 1990 State of Origin series.

He won the Clive Churchill Medal in the Raiders' 1990 grand final victory.

He debuted in the first test of the 1990 Kangaroo tour against Great Britain in London in October 1990, playing five-eighth outside Allan Langer.

In 1992 and 1993, Stuart 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.

He went on the 1994 Kangaroo Tour and his first test of the tour was the 2nd test.

He was again preceded by Langer.

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 Sharks and the Parramatta Eels.

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.

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.

Having won the 2002 NRL Premiership, the Roosters travelled to England to play the 2003 World Club Challenge against Super League champions, St Helens R.F.C. Stuart coached Sydney to a 38-0 victory.

Not only was the club in dire financial straits but the Cronulla Sharks club was also tarnished by media allegations about a 2002 group-sex incident involving former Sharks players, player Reni Maitua's dismissal after testing positive to drugs, removal of the captaincy from key player Paul Gallen, due to making racist remarks several unsavoury incidents involving now-disgraced CEO Tony Zappia (including his assault of a female staff member and involvement in an insurance-fraud fan donation scandal).

That year he took the Roosters to the 2003 NRL grand final but they lost to the Penrith Panthers.

The 2004 Stuart-coached Roosters side was also beaten in the Grand Final, but the team struggled in 2005 and 2006.

Stuart's contract was terminated and he left the Roosters two weeks before the end of the 2006 season.

In 2007, Stuart took over from Stuart Raper as head coach of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks with a two-year contract, which was then extended to the end of the 2011 playing season.

Despite the Sharks making the preliminary finals in 2008, Stuart's time with the club was marred by a horror year in 2009.

He was also the head coach of the New South Wales State of Origin team, having replaced Craig Bellamy following a fifth consecutive failure in the 2010 series.

On 19 July 2010, Stuart resigned as Cronulla-Sutherland coach six weeks before the end of the 2010 season.

Stuart said that he decided to leave Cronulla after he felt that he no longer had the support of his players.

Stuart went on to say "I just feel I can't get that extra bit out of them at the moment, Talking to the players at halftime and after the game, I could probably sense with them that this was the only decision".

Stuart leaving the club ended yet another tenure prematurely and at loggerheads with club executives, members and players, with Cronulla appointing Shane Flanagan as his replacement.

The Eels had in recent years been perennial underachievers, with Stuart set the unenviable task of resurrecting the team after the team finished last in 2012.

Stuart signed a lucrative three-year contract with the Parramatta Eels, beginning in 2013.

This meant that Stuart had to stand down as the head coach of the New South Wales State of Origin team, as the state had put in a policy that the head coach would not have any relation to an NRL club.