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He finished his career with Essendon.
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Robert Hyde
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Hyde played 63 senior VFL football games between 1973 and 1979. Hyde played for Collingwood in both the drawn 1977 VFL Grand Final and the Grand Final replay the following week. Hyde coached Greensborough to Diamond Valley Football League premierships in 1983 and 1984, and then spent time coaching North Old Boys in the Victorian Amateur Football Association.
He was coach of the Calder Cannons in the TAC Cup from 1996 to 2006, during which time he led the Cannons to five grand finals, winning three premierships After leaving Calder, he coached the Victorian Country team in the American Federation of Labor-Congress Under 18 Championships.
Hyde was appointed as senior coach of the Northern Blues in the VFL at the start of the 2012 season, a role he took on a part-time basis. However, he did not coach out the season, leaving the club on 28 June 2012.
Hyde stated that the role was too large for a part-time coach, particularly because his own availability (as dictated by his primary job as a school principal) meant that he could not interact with American Federation of Labor-Congress-listed players from Carlton, the Northern Blues" American Federation of Labor-Congress-affiliate, except on game day. Hyde is the principal of Epping Primary School Greenbrook campus in Epping, Victoria.
Is awarded to the Calder Cannons" best and fairest player each year.
