Brad Oborne
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Brad Oborne is a former Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played with Collingwood
Collingwood Football Club
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

 in the Australian Football League
Australian Football League
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 (AFL).

The 35th selection from the 1998 AFL Draft
1998 AFL Draft
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, Oborne was secured by Collingwood under the Father-Son Rule
Father-son rule
The father-son rule is a rule that allows clubs to select the sons of players who have made a major past contribution to the team in Australian rules football, most notably the Australian Football League...

, as his father Rod Oborne
Rod Oborne
Rod C. Oborne is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Richmond in the Victorian Football League .Oborne, a left footed half forward flanker, was recruited from Marist Brothers College, in Burnie...

 had played for the club in the 1970s. He was drafted from 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....

 side the Preston Knights
Northern Knights
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, having earlier played with Montmorency.

He played four games for Collingwood in the 1999 AFL season and had his best performance against the Brisbane Lions
Brisbane Lions
The Brisbane Lions is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Brisbane, Queensland. The club was formed from the merger of the Brisbane Bears and the Fitzroy Lions in 1996...

 at the GABBA
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 when he kicked three goals. The following year he was called up to the seniors just once and at the end of the season was delisted by Collingwood.

In 2005 he was charged by police after assaulting Carlton
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...

 player David Teague
David Teague (footballer)
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at Melbourne's Next Blue nightclub.
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