Jeffrey Leonard Sayle OAM (25 August 1942 — 30 September 2019) was an Australian

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

international. Sayle, born in

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, attended Maroubra Bay High School and was a product of

Randwick Randwick is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Randwick is located 6 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government ar ...

juniors. A flanker, Sayle gained a

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cap on the 1967 tour of New Zealand for a one-off Test against the

All Blacks The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks, is the representative men's national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of New Zealand, which is considered the country's national sport. Famed for th ...

to celebrate the NZRFU's 75th Jubilee. After 160 first-grade games for Randwick, he took over as the club's coach in 1982, with

Bob Dwyer Bob Dwyer AM (born 29 November 1940) is an Australian rugby union coach. Early life Educated at Sydney Boys High School, from which he graduated in 1957, Dwyer played 2nd XV rugby for the school, lining up alongside former Canterbury-Bankstow ...

moving on to lead the national team. He coached Randwick to six

Shute Shield The Shute Shield, currently known as the Charter Hall Shute Shield, is a semi-professional rugby union competition in Sydney, Australia. It is the premier club competition in New South Wales. The Shute Shield is awarded to the winning team fro ...

titles. Sayle received a

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in the

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list for "service to Rugby Union football through the Randwick Rugby Union Club, and to surf lifesaving through the Coogee Surf Life Saving Club".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sayle, Jeff 1942 births 2019 deaths Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players Rugby union players from Sydney Rugby union flankers Randwick DRUFC players Australian rugby union coaches Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia New South Wales rugby union team players 20th-century Australian sportsmen

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