Jarryd Roughead (born 23 January 1987) is an

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coach and former player. He was formerly an assistant coach with the

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in the

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(AFL). He played for the

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in the AFL and was the club's captain from 2017-2018. He retired in 2019.

Early and personal life

Born in Leongatha in southern

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, Roughead played for the Gippsland Power. After the under 18s season finished, Roughead helped his local team, Leongatha, win the WGLFL premiership. Roughead is friends with Australian basketball players

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and

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. His cousin, Jordan Roughead, played for the

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and Western Bulldogs Football Club. Roughead is married and has a daughter & a son.

AFL career

2004-2007: Introduction to senior football

Roughead was recruited to Hawthorn with the 2nd overall pick in the 2004 AFL draft. he was selected by Hawthorn along with future dual-club superstar

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. Both Roughead and Franklin were to be key members of Hawthorn's line up as they grew older. In Round 19, 2005, Roughhead was nominated for the

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award. He collected 20 disposals in a 41-point loss against the

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2007-2009: Hitting form

In 2007, Roughhead finished the season with a career-high of 40 goals in 22 games. However, along with his 40 majors, Roughead's goal accuracy was at 52.6 percent that year, a mark considered to not be very good. During his career, Roughhead has shown that he has the tremendous athletic capability with a huge leap and clean marking hands. In the

2008 AFL season The 2008 AFL season was the 112th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured sixt ...

, he kicked 75 goals from 25 matches. Despite having the ability to work as a member of Hawthorn's defence, he became a regular centre half-forward for Hawthorn. In 2008, he played in his first

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, despite his struggles to collect the ball at times, Roughead finished the match with a respectable 2 goals against

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. Roughhead kicked a career-high 8 goals in a slim 5 point victory over the Carlton Blues.

2011-2012: Injuries

In 2011, Roughhead played in a ruck position as well as the forward line due to Hawthorn's injury list. In their Round 12 clash against Geelong, he ruptured his Achilles tendon during the final quarter of the match. Roughead was stretchered off the ground and was ruled out for the remainder of the

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. He finished the season with 16 goals. He spent the majority of the

2012 AFL season The 2012 AFL season was the 116th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured eighteen clubs, with addition of the newly established Greater ...

sharing the ruck duties with David Hale (footballer). When not in the ruck, he was position in the forward line, but also assisted in defence as the need arose.

2013-2015: Medals and premierships

In 2013, Roughead was awarded the

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for being the leading goalkicker after kicking 68 goals at the completion of the home and away season. He managed to achieve this whilst spending considerable time in the ruck as well as in the midfield alongside his rucking partners. He kicked two goals in Hawthorn's qualifying final against

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and another two goals in the

against

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which resulted in Hawthorn's second premiership of the century. Following 2013, Roughhead was a member of Hawthorn's Grand Final winning sides in 2014 and 2015, notably kicking 5 goals against the Sydney Swans in the 2014 Grand Final.

2016-2019: Career conclusion

Roughhead missed most of the

2016 AFL season The 2016 AFL season was the 120th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured eig ...

due to cancer complications. On 20 January 2017, Roughead was named the captain of Hawthorn. On 12 August 2019, Roughead announced he would retire from AFL football at the conclusion of the 2019 season. In his last match, he kicked 6 goals against the

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Illness

Midway through the 2015 season, Roughead was ruled out for three weeks after it was revealed he had a melanoma removed from his lip. On May 17, 2016, Roughead was diagnosed with a recurrence of

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and was sidelined indefinitely. Roughead has four small spots on his lung and a biopsy confirmed a diagnosis of melanoma. In December, after 8 months of immunotherapy, Roughead revealed on the Hawthorn website that he was cancer-free, and had been given the all-clear to return to football.

Statistics

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2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

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2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

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2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

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2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

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2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

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2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

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2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

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2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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Honours and achievements

Team * 4× AFL premiership player ():

* 2×

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():

Individual *

* 2×

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* 3× Hawthorn leading goalkicker: 2013, 2014, 2017 * Hawthorn captain: 2017–2018 *

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* Hawthorn most consistent player: 2008 * AFL Rising Star nominee:

* Hawthorn life member

Publications

In 2020, Roughead, assisted by sports journalist Peter Hanlon, published an autobiography entitled 'Roughy: The Autobiography', published with Viking Press. Review: https://theparentswebsite.com.au/family-matters-getting-to-know-roughy/

Notes

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Roughead, Jarryd 1987 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Hawthorn Football Club players Hawthorn Football Club premiership players Gippsland Power players Leongatha Football Club players All-Australians (AFL) Coleman Medal winners Box Hill Football Club players People from Leongatha Australia international rules football team players VFL/AFL premiership players 21st-century Australian sportsmen