Richard Umbers 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 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...

 in the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (AFL).

Umbers was from South Warrnambool

South Warrnambool Football Club

The South Warrnambool Football Club are an Australian rules football club which compete in the Hampden Football League.They are based in the regional Victorian city of Warrnambool and have played in the Hampden Football League since 1933....

 and started his league career at Geelong

Geelong Football Club

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. He however didn't play a senior game and moved to Brisbane after being picked up by the Bears in the 1990 pre-season draft

1989 VFL Draft

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Brisbane were wooden spoon winners in his only AFL season, losing all four games that he played in. He didn't kick a league goal but had three behinds in a match against Carlton

Carlton Football Club

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