Rohan Bail (born 26 June 1988) is a former professional

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er who played for the

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in the

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(AFL). Bail began his junior football career playing for the Ferny Grove Falcons and after competing in numerous seasons with the club moved to the Mount Gravatt Football Club to continue with senior football. He was recruited from

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in the

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with Melbourne's final selection, number 64 overall, in the 2008 AFL Draft, after being overlooked in the previous two drafts. He finished fourth in the 2008

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, awarded to the best player in the Queensland league. Bail made his AFL debut in Round 19 of the

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, but had only one kick before he injured his

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. He was delisted at the conclusion of the 2015 season, and in 2016 will play for St Kevin's Old Boys in Premier section of the VAFA.

Statistics

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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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