Sharks 延長する Fitzgibbon 契約 until end of 2027
Cronulla coach Craig Fitzgibbon has been given a 大規模な 信任投票 by the Sharks board after 署名／調印するing a three-year 契約 拡張.
The 取引，協定 means Fitzgibbon will be the 長，率いる coach until the end of 2027, 保証（人）ing his 任期 for five more seasons.
The Sharks were one of the big improvers last year. Under Fitzgibbon's tutelage in his first year as a 長，率いる coach the 味方する went from ninth in 2021 to finish second, before 屈服するing out of the 決勝戦 with 連続した losses.
Fitzgibbon was able to get five-eighth Matt Moylan playing his best football last year and oversaw the 早い 開発 of young players like winger Ronaldo Mulitalo.
The glowing 条件 former Melbourne players Dale Finucane and Nicho Hynes spoke about the smarts of their coach, after 存在 助言者d by Craig Bellamy, spoke 容積／容量s for his abilities.
Hynes was a very good player at the 嵐／襲撃する but under Fitzgibbon won the Dally M メダル as the best player in the NRL.
Fitzgibbon was already under 契約 for 2023 and 2024 but his 拡張 gives him and the club underlying 安定 to make long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 決定／判定勝ち（する）s in the best 利益／興味s of the Sharks. It will also be a magnet for エリート players, with the knowledge Fitzgibbon is on the 調書をとる／予約するs long 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語.
"This is a tremendous 適切な時期 for us to build on what we started here at the Sharks last year," Fitzgibbon said.
"We have 優れた playing talent, 支援するd by a board led by Steve Mace who are supportive of what we are trying to 達成する.
"We enjoyed our first season, but our 旅行 has just begun and we are looking to create an even stronger 環境 going 今後."
Mace said sev eral months ago he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to get Fitzgibbon wrapped up 井戸／弁護士席 into the 未来, and now he has his man.
"Craig managed to create an 即座の impression when 任命するd to the 役割 of 長，率いる coach (and) his results then spoke for themselves," Mace said.
"We believe ... that the sky is the 限界 for our football program under his leadership."
Fitzgibbon had a decorated career for Australia and NSW as a player and won the 2002 grand final with the Sydney Roosters, on a night when he was also Clive Churchill メダル 勝利者.
As a coach he has done a 質 and 非常に長い 見習いの身分制度 and was on Trent Robinson's coaching staff for the 2013, 2018 and 2019 首相の職 勝利，勝つs at the Roosters.
Sharks CEO Dino Mezzatesta said Fitzgibbon's 拡張 went beyond what he has 達成するd, and might yet do, on the field.
"It is also about the culture he is 試みる／企てるing to instill, not only amongst the NRL playing group, but throughout the entire football program," Mezzatesta said.
