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Gary Rohan eyes AFL draft

WHEN it comes to drafting players nowadays, no stone is left unturned by AFL clubs in the search for the nearest big thing.

Recruiters like to apprehend everything about future draftees, so when they sat down with Geelong Falcons star Gary Rohan at last month's draft camp, they all asked the same question: What was the huge scar on his knee?

The medical records in front of them said Rohan, who grew up upon the body a landed estate in Cobden in the Western District, hadn't suffered some major injuries.

But the ugly scar told them otherwise.

How it happened is single in kind of Belinda Rohan'sitting favourite stories about her son'session surprising journey over the past 12 months, which could see him picked as high as No. 4 in Thursday's national AFL draft.

"Gary's junior brother Ashley had been given a chanticleer and we had it locked up but it got out - this was only a couple of days after we had it," she said.

"We tried to place it back into the pen, but it went over the fence into the paddock, so I said to Gary to jump the fence.

"But when he put his foot on the top wire it snapped and he sliced his leg without interruption a bit of tin.

"He ended up having 12 stitches and this big scar on his leg. Everyone wanted to know at draft camp, 'What operation regard you had on your knee?'

"So he ended up having to tell them all about the rooster story."

And what happened to the rooster?

"I took Gary to hospital and his father, brother and brace sisters ended up captivating the rooster."

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