Peter Sharp (born 16 July 1954) is an Australian professional

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coach. He was most recently the interim coach of the

Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league club based in the Sutherland Shire of Southern Sydney, Southern Sydney, New South Wales. Cronulla compete in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australasia's premier rugb ...

in the

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Coaching career

Sharp has been the head coach of the

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and

Manly-Warringah The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Sydney's Northern Beaches. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL). The Manly club debuted in the 1947 New South Wales Rugby Football League seaso ...

from 1999 to 2003. He has also been an assistant coach at the

Parramatta Eels The Parramatta Eels are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta that competes in the National Rugby League (NRL). The Parramatta District Rugby League Football Club was formed in 1947, and ...

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and the

Melbourne Storm The Melbourne Storm is a rugby league football club based in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia that participates in the National Rugby League (NRL). The club plays its home games at AAMI Park, and wears a purple and navy blu ...

. Sharp signed with Hull F.C. in April 2006, on a two-and-a-half-year contract. He replaced sacked coach John Kear., Sharp left the club in 2008 by mutual consent after the club won only 4 of their opening 14 games of the season. In 2008 he switched to

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, joining

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as defence coach until September 2009. Sharp joined Cronulla-Sutherland as assistant coach after the end of the 2011 season. After the suspension handed to

Shane Flanagan Shane Flanagan (born 2 December 1965) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and commentator, and is the head coach of the St George Illawarra Dragons in the National Rugby League . He was the head coach of the Cronulla Sut ...

for twelve months for his role in the club's supplements scandal, Sharp was elevated to the role of caretaker coach, despite his reluctance to coach in the NRL again. He resigned from this role on 1 July 2014, with James Shepherd to assume this role until Flanagan returns from his suspension.Peter Sharp resigns as Cronulla Sharks NRL coach as season goes from bad to worse
''ABC Grandstand Sport (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)'', 1 July 2014

Footnotes

External links

Peter Sharp at ''NRL Stats''
1954 births Living people Australian rugby league coaches Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks coaches Hull F.C. coaches Manly Warringah Sea Eagles coaches Northern Eagles Ulster Rugby non-playing staff 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-rugbyleague-bio-1950s-stub