Ray Hall (born 27 October 1980) is a former

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player who played for the

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. Hall grew up in

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, playing for the

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before moving to

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where he was recruited by the

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having played in the Under 18s state squad. Hall played 99 games for the Richmond Tigers, predominantly as a ruckman. Hall announced his retirement on 28 August 2007 because a hip injury ruled him out for the 2007 season. In 2008, Hall spent 12 months as an Australian Government sponsored volunteer in

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

, on the

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(AYAD) program, assisting in sports development in PNG. This has included coaching PNG's Under 18 Australian Rules Football League (AFL) Team, the Kupundas. Hall returned to Australia in 2010 to join the

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as a graduate. In 2012, Hall joined the

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. He was first posted to Afghanistan, followed by Jordan where he also played for the Amman Saracens at the Emirates Airlines Dubai Rugby Sevens in 2014 and 2015. Hall was subsequently posted to the Solomon Islands in 2018.

Statistics

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

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2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

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2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

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2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

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2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

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2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

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2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

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* Australian rules footballers from New South Wales Richmond Football Club players NSW/ACT Rams players Balmain Australian Football Club players Living people 1980 births {{AFL-bio-1980s-stub