"Bob Dwyer" Order of Australia/AM is an Australian rugby union coach (sport)/coach.

Educated at Sydney Boys High School, graduating in 1957, where he played 2nd XV for the school where he played alongside former Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks player George Taylforth and St. George Dragons halfback George Evans (rugby league)/George Evans. He coached Sydney club Randwick DRUFC/Randwick to four Sydney championship wins before becoming Australia national rugby union team/Australia's national team coach. He coached Australia from 1982–83, and again from 1988. He coached Australia to victory at the 1991 Rugby Union World Cup/1991 Rugby World Cup.

Dwyer moved to Leicester Tigers after the game turned professional in 1996 and replaced Chalkie White (rugby player)/Chalkie White. Tigers had immediate success, in 1997 reaching the Heineken Cup final and winning the Powergen Cup/Pilkington Cup, but finished fourth in the Zurich Premiership/league. Dwyer's harsh attitude to the players led to the them dubbing him 'Barb Dwyer' ('barbed wire') and a public spat with one of them, Austin Healey ensued. The club's board decided to replace Dwyer with former club captain Dean Richards (rugby player)/Dean Richards.

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One game can make a season, especially when you have just four wins going into the game.

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Being an old school teacher, I look at this as a final exam for my seniors. For the other 15 kids in that locker room, this was the first game of next year.

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