Stuart Raper

Quick Facts

Full Name	Stuart Raper
Occupation	Australian Coach
Date Of Birth	Jan 5, 1965(1965-01-05)
Age	59
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Capricorn

Stuart Raper Biography

Stuart Raper is one of the most popular and richest Australian coach who was born on January 5, 1965 in Australia. Stuart Raper (born 5 January 1965) is an Australian former professional rugby league player and coach. He is now a sideline commentator on the NRL as part of Foxsports. He is well-known because of his father being Rugby League legend Johnny Raper and is also one of the few Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks coach to win the President’s Cup (under-21s) for the club in 1994.

In 1989, Raper was signed by the Sydney’s Western Suburbs Magpies on a one- year contract. The opportunities he had were to be limited, and after five games during the season , his deal was never renewed, and his debut grade season ended.

Following his immediate success with the Under 21 side he was duly appointed as the new coach of the Sharks reserve grade side for the 1995 season. More success followed for Raper (as he inherited much the same side from his Under 21 coaching days) as after two seasons he was successful in coaching his side to the reserve grade title in 1996.

After a successful 1996 season at home with Cronulla, Raper was offered the head coaching role at English Super League club the Castleford Tigers and joined on 27 April 1997. At the start of 1997’s Super League II Castleford were seen by many as a team simply making up the numbers and few held hopes for their survival to avoid being relegated. Throughout the season they continually struggled large parts and in the end only just managed to avoid being relegated, eventually finishing tenth.

Raper relocated to England during the 1986/87 season and signed with Oldham. Raper played 31 games for Oldham during the season as well as scoring 11 goals, but his efforts did not stop Oldham from being dropped from to the 1st Division. The club was dissolved at the close that season.

Stuart Raper Net Worth

Stuart Raper is one of the richest Australian Coach from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stuart Raper 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Raper initially signed on to play for The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the early 1980s. He made his debut in the grade when he was 18 in a match against the Illawarra Steelers in round 25 of the 1983 NSWRFL season. After promising beginnings to his career as a grade player, however, he could not match his famous father’s legacy playing for the Sharks and after playing just eight first-grade games playing with them over the course of three years the team decided to go on with his attempt to build his career.

Stuart Raper played loose forward during Oldham’s 627-27 defeat against Wigan at the time of the 1986-87 Lancashire County Cup Final at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on the 19th of October, 1986.

After a brief playing career with both the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and the Western Suburbs Magpies Raper signed on to his first coaching role in 1994 with the Under 21s Sharks side. Here Raper inherited an extremely talented side (featuring Adam Dykes, Geoff Bell and David Peachey) and with them excelled as he took the team to the club’s first President’s Cup in his début season as coach.

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His first season in charge at his new club proved to be a fruitful one for Raper as the Warriors finished second on the end of season table and made it all the way to the 2001 Super League Grand Final; although they ended up losing to the Bradford Bulls in a somewhat poor performance for the club’s usually high standards.

Facts & Trivia

Stuart Ranked on the list of most popular Australian coach. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Stuart Raper celebrates birthday on January 5 of every year.

At the start of his tenure at the Sharks, the former Cronulla pupil was given the task of rebuilding the club after they failed to make the NRL playoffs in 2003 for the first time in four seasons.