Jamie Bond is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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er who played with Fitzroy

Fitzroy Football Club

The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897...

 in the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (AFL).

Bond was an Under-19s player at Hawthorn

Hawthorn Football Club

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 and joined the senior list when they picked him up in the 1988 VFL Draft

1988 VFL Draft

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. 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

1991 AFL season

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, against Melbourne

Melbourne Football Club

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 at the MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

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. 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

South Launceston Football Club

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, for whom he won a Best and Fairest

Best and Fairest

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 in 1994. Bond was then a successful player in the Bendigo Football League

Bendigo Football League

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, where he played for Maryborough

Maryborough Football Club

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. 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.