Stuart Raper
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 5 January 1965 | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1984–86 | Cronulla-Sutherland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986–87 | Oldham | 31 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 44 |
| 1989 | Western Suburbs Magpies | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 39 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 44 | |
| Coaching information | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 1997–01 | Castleford Tigers | 127 | 67 | 7 | 53 | 53 |
| 2001–03 | Wigan Warriors | 63 | 45 | 2 | 16 | 71 |
| 2004–06 | Cronulla Sharks | 74 | 31 | 0 | 43 | 42 |
| Total | 264 | 143 | 9 | 112 | 54 | |
Stuart Raper (born 5 January 1965) is an Australian former professional rugby league player and coach. He has since become a sideline commentator for the NRL with Foxsports. He is widely known for his father being Rugby League legend Johnny Raper and he also is the only Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks coach to win the President's Cup (under-21s) for the club in 1994.
Raper originally signed on to play with the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the early 1980s and made his first grade debut at the age of 18 against the Illawarra Steelers in round 25 of the 1983 NSWRFL season. After a promising start to his first grade career he was never able to live up to his famous father's shadow while at the Sharks and after only eight first grade games with them in three years, decided it was best to move on in an attempt to further his career.
Raper moved to England for the 1986/87 season and signed for Oldham. Raper made 31 appearances for Oldham in that season and scored 11 tries but his efforts didn't prevent Oldham from being relegated from the 1st Division. He left the club at the end of the season.
In 1989 Raper signed on with Sydney's Western Suburbs Magpies on a one-year deal with the club. His opportunities though were yet again limited and after only a mere five appearances for the season his contract was not renewed and his first grade career came to an end.
Stuart Raper played Loose forward/Lock, in Oldham's 6-27 defeat to Wigan in the 1986–87 Lancashire Cup final at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on Sunday 19 October 1986.
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