Chris Bond

Chris Bond

Personal information
Birth	26 January 1969 (1969-01-26) (age 42), Wynyard, Tasmania
Recruited from	North Hobart
Playing career¹
Team(s)	Carlton (1990–1992) 22 Games 8 Goals Richmond (1993–1997) 100 games, 32 goals Fremantle (1998–1999) 41 games, 5 goals
Coaching career¹
Team(s)	Werribee Tigers 2001–2002 Western Bulldogs (assistant coach) 2003–2007
¹ Statistics to end of 2005 season
Career highlights
Richmond Best and Farest 1994 Richmond 100 Games Fremantle Captain 1999

Chris Bond is a former Australian rules footballer who played as a rover for the Carlton, Richmond and Fremantle Football Clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL). Since retiring as a player he has coached Werribee in the Victorian Football League and has also been an assistant coach for the Western Bulldogs. He is currently the football operations manager at Fremantle.

Carlton

Chris was selected in the 1989 VFL draft from the North Hobart Football Club. Chris was selected for his first game at Carlton in 1990, but after three seasons, had only played 22 games. Ready to turn his back on the AFL, Bond signed with the Central District of the SANFL. However, a friend and teammate at Carlton, Ian Herman, persuaded Bond to change his plans and join the Richmond Football Club.

Richmond

In 1994, Bond won the Richmond Best and Fairest award. Through 1997, Bond missed only one game.

Fremantle

At the end of the 1997 season, Bond was traded to Fremantle in exchange for an early draft pick. Bond's experience and reliability was a major attraction for Fremantle – facing the 1998 season without the retiring Ben Allan and Scott Watters and a coach in Gerard Neesham on a one-year performance based contract extension.

He played two years for Fremantle, the second as Captain of the team. After 9 games in a row of losing to crosstown rivals West Coast Eagles, Bond led the team to their first Western Derby victory.

Coaching career

After the 1999 season, Bond took a coaching job in Victoria with the Werribee Tigers, a VFL affiliate of the AFL Western Bulldogs. After winning the 2002 VFL Finals, he was promoted to a coaching position with the Western Bulldogs, where he assisted head coach Rodney Eade. He left the Bulldogs after the 2007 AFL season to take a management role at Fremantle.^[1]

References

1. ^ Schmook, Nathan (24 July 2011). "Outside man". Australian Football League. http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/119074/default.aspx. Retrieved 11 August 2011. "Football manager Chris Bond returned to Fremantle at the end of 2007" 

External links

• Chris Bond's statistics from AFL Tables

Sporting positions
Preceded by Peter Mann	Fremantle Football Club captain 1999	Succeeded by Adrian Fletcher and Shaun McManus
Awards
Preceded by Tony Free	Jack Dyer Medal 1994	Succeeded by Wayne Campbell

Persondata
Name	Bond, Chris
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	26 January 1969
Place of birth	Wynyard, Tasmania
Date of death
Place of death