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Colin Garland Personal information Full name Colin Garland Date of birth 28 April 1988 Place of birth Tasmania Original team Tassie Mariners (TAC Cup) Draft #46, 2006 National Draft, Melbourne Height/Weight 191cm / 90kg Position(s) Defender Club information Current club Melbourne Number 20 Playing career1 Years Club Games (Goals) 2007– Melbourne 58 (4) 1 Playing statistics to end of 2011 season .Colin Garland (born 28 April 1988) is a professional Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League, currently with the Melbourne Football Club.
Beginning his playing years at the North Hobart in the SFL in Tasmania, Garland was recruited by the Demons from the TAC Cup side Tassie Mariners at pick No. 46 in the 2006 AFL Draft.
Playing for the Demons as an athletic key position player, Garland wears the No. 20 guernsey. He became the first player since the late Troy Broadbridge to wear this jumper, after it was retired for the previous two years (2005-2006).
Garland picked up a NAB Rising Star nomination (round 14, 2008) for his consistent efforts playing in the Demons backline.[1]
References
Melbourne Football Club – current squad 2 Jones · 3 Bartram · 4 Watts · 5 Gysberts · 6 Bate · 7 Bennell · 8 Frawley · 9 Trengove · 10 Morton · 12 Sylvia · 13 McKenzie · 14 Dunn · 15 Petterd · 16 Grimes · 18 Green (c) · 20 Garland · 22 Moloney · 24 Jurrah · 27 Rivers · 28 Macdonald · 34 Martin · 35 Tapscott · 36 Davey · 37 Gawn · 38 Howe · 39 Jetta · 40 Jamar · 42 Spencer · 44 Bail · 45 Lawrence* · 46 Blease · 47 Strauss · 48 Fitzpatrick · 49 Nicholson* · 50 Evans · tbd Clark
Coach: Neeld
* denotes Rookie Listed players
Categories:- Melbourne Football Club players
- 1988 births
- Living people
- Australian rules footballers from Tasmania
- Tassie Mariners players
- Australian rules biography, 1980s birth stubs
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