Bob Sheens was a

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

footballer in

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major competition the

New South Wales Rugby League The New South Wales Rugby League Ltd (NSWRL) is an Australian rugby league football competition operator in rugby league in New South Wales, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and is a member of the Australian Rugby League Co ...

(NSWRL). Bob is the brother of

Tim Sheens Timothy Sheens (born 30 October 1950) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. Head Coach of the Australia national team between 2009 and 2015, he has also been the head coach of National Rugby League (NRL) c ...

. Bob Sheens played 10 1st grade matches during his career, all matches were for the Eastern Suburbs club in 1979 and 1981. Bob Sheens worked as a physical education (PE) teacher at Belmore Boys High School in the 1970s, Randwick Boys High School (RBHS) in the early to mid 1980s. He is the brother of former professional

footballer and coach

. Sheen worked under his brother as strength coach at the

North Queensland Cowboys The North Queensland Cowboys is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Townsville, the largest city in North Queensland. They compete in Australia's premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League (NRL). Sinc ...

. Sheens worked as a conditioner at Eastern Suburbs and Cronulla Sutherland and later was a lower grade coach at the Western Reds. Bob Sheens currently works as a physical education (PE) teacher and a former passionate B Grade Coach at Marcellin College Randwick (MCR).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sheens, Bob 1953 births Living people Australian rugby league players Australian schoolteachers Rugby league players from Parramatta Sydney Roosters players 20th-century Australian sportsmen