| Rohan Welsh | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Rohan Welsh | ||
| Date of birth | 7 October 1970 | ||
| Original team | St Bernard's College | ||
| Height/Weight | 189 cm / 94 kg | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1992–93, 1996–97 | Carlton | 42 (59) | |
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1 Playing statistics to end of 1997 season .
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Rohan Welsh (born 7 October 1970) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Welsh was recruited to the AFL originally by Essendon but despite serving his apprenticeship in the under-19s and spending two years on their senior's list, he couldn't break into their league side. After being released in 1990, he headed to Dandenong where he had success at full-forward. He won the Victorian Football Association's leading goal-kicker trophy, now the Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal, for his 84 goals in 1991 and was picked up by Carlton.
As one of Carlton's forward targets, Welsh kicked 28 goals in 1992, six of them against Fitzroy in round 14. He played at a forward pocket in the 1993 AFL Grand Final where he kicked two goals in a losing cause.
In an end of season trip, the Grand Finalist injured himself when he fell off a fence during a night of celebrating and badly injured his knee. He was out of action for two years but was kept on Carlton's list and returned in 1996. His comeback was not all that successful and he was delisted at the end of the 1997 season.
Until his retirement in 2000, Welsh played at Frankston. He then turned to coaching and was an assistant coach with the Calder Cannons from 2002 to 2004. After leaving Calder he took up the job of the Oakleigh Chargers' senior coach and steered them to the 2006 TAC Cup premiership.