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Melbourne's Clint Bartram has retired. Picture: Michael Dodge Source: Herald Sun
MELBOURNE midfielder Clint Bartram has retired at just 24, the victim of a degenerative knee condition which has already required experimental surgery.
The former Rising Star nominee has battled through the pain of a bone-on-bone knee and in August had last-ditch surgery to extend his career.
The Herald Sun understands Bartram has today retired after considering his future, pulling the pin on his career after managing 103 games in his seven years at the club.
The surgery saw the hard-nut tagger and small defender gaining six kilograms which was then harvested through liposuction and re-inserted into his knee
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It was hopeful that procedure combined with injections to generate cartilage growth might allow him to continue his AFL career.
But his knee has not improved enough for him to put his body through another pre-season.
Bartram has retired not only because he cannot play elite football, but also to preserve the quality of his life after football.
The Demons will be able to drop him off their list ahead of the second list lodgement, and take another player in the national draft.
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It will strip yet more valuable experience from the Demons list, with Brock McLean and Jared Rivers - the club's top-two finishers in the best-and-fairest in 2011 - already leaving the club as free agents.
Liam Jurrah and seven top-30 draft picks have also left, but the club has recruited experienced players Chris Dawes, Shannon Byrnes, Cameron Pedersen, Tom Gillies and David Rodan.
Bartram had battled with the knee problem for years, but all his options have now been exhausted.
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