Graham Martin Robbins (born 6 May 1949) is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played with

Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States * Richmond, London, a part of London * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, ...

in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFL). Robbins, who came from Catani, played at Richmond for three seasons, including their premiership year in 1969. A rover, Robbins only made three appearances that season, from rounds 12 to 14, but played nine senior games in 1970. He joined

Victorian Football Association The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFA) club Oakleigh early in the 1971 season, after making one further appearance for Richmond. A member of Oakleigh's 1972 VFA premiership winning team, Robbins later played in South Australia, with the

South Adelaide Football Club The South Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club that competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Known as the ''Panthers'', their home ground is Flinders University Stadium Latrobe Valley Football League The Gippsland League (formerly known as the West Gippsland Latrobe Football League) is an Australian rules football and netball league in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. It is considered the only AFL Victoria major league in Gipps ...

. He steered Sale to a grand final in 1981, which they lost to Bairnsdale, then in 1983 and 1984 was playing coach of Maffra. His second stint coaching Maffra, from 2009 to 2011, brought two premierships (2009 & 2010).''Berwick Gazette''
"Lions launch flag defence"
2 December 2009 His son, Ben Robbins, played 92 AFL games, for the

Brisbane Bears The Brisbane Football Club, nicknamed the Bears, was a professional Australian rules football club based in Queensland on the Gold Coast (relocated to Brisbane in 1993). The club participated in the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/A ...

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and

Kangaroos Kangaroos are four marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern gre ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Robbins, Graham 1949 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Richmond Football Club players Oakleigh Football Club players South Adelaide Football Club players Sale Football Club players Sale Football Club coaches Maffra Football Club players Maffra Football Club coaches Living people