Bond was an Under-19s player at Hawthorn and joined the senior list when they picked him up in the 1988 VFL draft.
It was with Fitzroy that he made his AFL debut, in round 17 of the 1991 season, against Melbourne at the MCG.
[2] He didn't appear in another senior game with Fitzroy and made his way to South Launceston, for whom he won a best and fairest in 1994.
Bond was then a successful player in the Bendigo Football League, where he played for Maryborough.
Bond, who retired in 2004, was a member of back-to-back Maryborough premiership sides in 1998 and 1999.