Benjamin 'Ben' Robbins (born 27 December 1976) is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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er who played with the Brisbane Bears

Brisbane Bears

The Brisbane Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Bears was an Australian rules football club and the first Queensland-based club in the Victorian Football League . The club played its first match in 1987, but struggled on and off the field until it made the finals for the first time in 1995...

, Brisbane Lions

Brisbane Lions

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 and Kangaroos

North Melbourne Football Club

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 in the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (AFL).

Robbins, who was from Maffra, played in the TAC Cup

TAC Cup

The TAC Cup is an under 18 Australian rules football representative competition held in Victoria, Australia. It is based on geographic regions throughout country Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne with each team representing 12 Victorian regions....

 for the Gippsland Power before he was recruited by the West Coast Eagles

West Coast Eagles

The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League. The club is based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and played its first games in the 1987 season. Its current home ground is Subiaco Oval...

 with the 33rd pick of the 1993 AFL Draft

1993 AFL Draft

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. The son of former Richmond

Richmond Football Club

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 player Graham Robbins, he chose to remain in Gippsland

Gippsland

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 and it was not until 1995 that he made the move to Western Australia. Robbins was unable to break into the Eagles team and instead spent the season playing for Perth

Perth Football Club

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 in the WAFL

West Australian Football League

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. As a result he was traded at the end of the year, to the Brisbane Bears for pick 66 in the draft, which was used on Neil Marshall.

After making his long awaited AFL debut in 1996, Robbins found himself changing clubs again for the 1997 AFL season

1997 AFL season

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 due to the merger between the Bears and Fitzroy

Fitzroy Football Club

The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897...

. A midfielder, Robbins struggled to cement a spot in the Lions team as they already had a strong combination in the middle. He made 11 appearances in 2001, Brisbane's premiership winning season, but did not participate in the finals. Robbins was then delisted and he nominated for the 2001 AFL Draft

2001 AFL Draft

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, where he was picked up by the Kangaroos with the 54th selection. He played in all of the Victorian club's 23 games in 2002 and featured prominently again in 2003, however he spent the 2004 season in the VFL

Victorian Football League

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 with Port Melbourne

Port Melbourne Football Club

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.