Tom Gillies

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Tom Gillies

| image =

| fullname = Thomas Gillies

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1990|3|7}}

| birth_place = Traralgon, Victoria

| death_date =

| death_place =

| originalteam = Dandenong Stingrays

| draftpick = 33rd overall, 2008
{{AFL Gee}}

| height = 192 cm

| weight = 89 kg

| position = Full Back

| statsend = 2013

| years1 = 2009–2012

| club1 = {{AFL Gee}}

| games_goals1 = 13 (1)

| years2 = 2013

| club2 = {{AFL Mel}}

| games_goals2 = {{0}}2 (0)

| games_goalstotal = 15 (1)

| careerhighlights =

}}

Thomas Gillies (born 7 March 1990) is a former Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club and the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Early life

Tom began his career with the Traralgon-based Tedas Junior Football Club. He then went on to play with the Narre Warren Football Club which led to getting selected to play for the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup.

AFL career

Gillies was selected by Geelong with the 33rd pick in the 2008 AFL Draft.

He made his debut in Round 15 of the 2009 AFL season against Brisbane{{cite news|last=McGowan|first=Marc|title=Cats rookie's dream debut|url=http://www.starnewsgroup.com.au/news/berwick/201/story/77278.html|access-date=26 March 2012|newspaper=Berwick News|date=16 July 2009}} and played in six of the last eight games of the year. At the end of the year he was awarded Geelong's best first year player award.{{cite news|last=Gullan|first=Scott|title=Corey Enright and Gary Ablett tie for Geelong's best and fairest|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/more-news/enright-and-ablett-tie-in-geelongs-best-and-fairest/story-e6frf9jf-1225781808138|access-date=26 March 2012|newspaper=Herald Sun|date=1 October 2009}}

Post AFL

In 2014 he began playing for St Mary's in the Geelong Football League.{{cite news|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/axed-retired-afl-players-to-line-up-interstate-in-bush-and-in-suburbs-in-2014/story-fni5f22o-1226794883616|title=Axed, retired AFL players to line up interstate, in bush and in suburbs in 2014|last=Paton|first=Al|date=4 January 2014|work=Herald Sun|publisher=News Corp|access-date=25 March 2015}}

Statistics

:{{cite web|title=Tom Gillies statistics|url=http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/T/Tom_Gillies.html|publisher=AFL Tables|access-date=23 September 2012}}

|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"

| 2009 || {{AFL Gee}} || 25 || 6 || 0 || 0 || 23 || 37 || 60 || 12 || 5 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 3.8 || 6.2 || 10.0 || 2.0 || 0.8

| 2010 || {{AFL Gee}} || 25 || 0 || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —

|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"

| 2011 || {{AFL Gee}} || 25 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 8 || 8 || 16 || 4 || 1 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 4.0 || 4.0 || 8.0 || 2.0 || 0.5

| 2012 || {{AFL Gee}} || 25 || 5 || 1 || 0 || 40 || 33 || 73 || 26 || 9 || 0.2 || 0.0 || 8.0 || 6.6 || 14.6 || 5.2 || 1.8

|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"

| 2013 || {{AFL Mel}} || 27 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 9 || 7 || 16 || 5 || 0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 4.5 || 3.5 || 8.0 || 2.5 || 0.0

|- class="sortbottom"

! colspan=3| Career totals

! 15

! 1