Jamie Bond (born 12 November 1971) is a former
Australian rules footballer who played with
Fitzroy Fitzroy or FitzRoy may refer to:
People As a given name
*Several members of the Somerset family ( Dukes of Beaufort) have this as a middle-name:
**FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855)
**Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beau ...
in the
Australian Football League (AFL).
Bond was an Under-19s player at
Hawthorn and joined the senior list when they picked him up in the
1988 VFL draft. He only played reserves football for Hawthorn in 1989, unable to break into the dominant Hawthorn team.
It was with Fitzroy that he made his AFL debut, in round 17 of the
1991 season, against
Melbourne
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at the
MCG.
[AFL Tables: Jamie Bond]
/ref> He had kicked a goal and a behind from his three disposals.[
He didn't appear in another senior game with Fitzroy and made his way to South Launceston, for whom he won a ]best and fairest
In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...
in 1994. Bond was then a successful player in the Bendigo Football League
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, where he played for Maryborough. In 1996 he won the league's best player award, the Michelsen Medal and would have won another in 2001 had he not been ineligible through suspension. Bond, who retired in 2004, was a member of back-to-back Maryborough premiership sides in 1998 and 1999.['']Bendigo Advertiser
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"Pies mark end of an era"
2 June 2004
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1971 births
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Fitzroy Football Club players
South Launceston Football Club players
Maryborough Football Club players
Beaufort Football Club players
Living people
Werribee Football Club players