Paul Thomas (footballer)

Paul Thomas
Personal information
Date of birth	(1982-05-06) 6 May 1982
Debut	Round 4, 16 April 2005, Essendon v. Geelong, at Telstra Dome
Height/Weight	179 cm / 81 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2001-04, 2006- 2002 2005	Central District (SANFL) Adelaide (AFL) Essendon (AFL)	190 (45) 000 0(0) 008 0(1)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 2005 season.
Career highlights
SANFL debut with Central District in 2001 Central District Premiership Player 2003, 2004, 2007-10 (Captain 2007-10) SANFL Magarey Medallist 2004 Central District Best & Fairest 2004, 2009 AFL debut with Essendon on 16 April 2005 v Geelong at Telstra Dome Central District Club Captain 2007- SANFL Bob Quinn Medallist 2008 South Australian Interstate representative (Captain: 2012-) Central District Player Life Member 2011

Paul Thomas (born 6 May 1982) is an Australian rules football player currently playing in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) with Central District Football Club.

After spending a year on the Adelaide Crows list as a rookie in 2002, Thomas went back to the SANFL where he worked on improving his game, and he won a Magarey Medal in 2004.^[1] The Essendon Football Club picked him up in the 2004 AFL Draft but was delisted at the end of the 2005 AFL season after eight games for Essendon.^[2]

Thomas returned to Central District in 2006 and was appointed club captain in 2007. He was captain of the Bulldogs winning SANFL Grand Final teams in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. He won his second Norm Russell Medal as Central Districts Best & Fairest in 2009 to add to his 2004 win and in 2008 was named the Bob Quinn Medallist as for his best on ground effort in the SANFL's annual ANZAC Day match played at the Adelaide Oval between the previous season's grand finallists.

On 26 May 2012 Thomas was given the honor of captaining South Australia when they defeated Western Australia by 14 points, 15.11 (101) to 13.9 (87) at Gliderol Stadium @ Glenelg in Adelaide.^[3]

Outside of league football Thomas works at Henley High School, as a P.E. teacher and the football (AFL) Specialist Sport Program coach.

Thomas's father Jamie Thomas played 153 games for Central Districts in the 1980s.^[4]

References

↑ "Footy player tops the class", UniSA, http://www.unisa.edu.au/studentsatunisa/2004/octnov/magarey.asp Accessed 2 February 2010
↑ "Thomas in line for Dons debut", Bombersfc, http://www.bombersfc.com.au/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/6477/Default.aspx?newsId=9877 Accessed 2 February 2010
↑ SA triumphs in close state match
↑ Argent, Peter. "Grassroots: SA footy round-up". InDaily. InDaily. Retrieved 15 April 2015.

Magarey Medal winners

1898: Green 1899: Malin 1900: not awarded 1901: Sandland 1902: MacKenzie 1903: Waye 1904: not awarded 1905: MacKenzie 1906: MacKenzie 1907: Mack 1908: Tierney 1909: R. Head 1910: Hosking 1911: Cumberland 1912: Low 1913: Leahy 1914: Ashley 1915: Barry / Hosking / Perry 1916–18: not awarded 1919: Moriarty 1920: Moriarty / Richardson 1921: Adams / Karney / Moriarty / Scott 1922: Barnes 1923: Riley 1924: Scott 1925: Bampton / Lill 1926: McGregor 1927: McGregor 1928: Handby 1929: Snell 1930: Scott 1931: Sexton 1932: Pontifex 1933: Dunn 1934: Johnston 1935: Cockburn 1936: McCallum 1937: Hawke 1938: Quinn 1939: McArthur / Pash 1940: Brock 1941: Boyall 1942–44: not awarded 1945: Quinn 1946: Hank 1947: Hank 1948: R. Phillips 1949: Crabb / R. Phillips 1950: McKay 1951: Marriott 1952: Fitzgerald 1953: Deane 1954: Fitzgerald 1955: L. Head 1956: Boyd 1957: Benton / Deane 1958: L. Head 1959: Fitzgerald 1960: Barbary 1961: Halbert 1962: Eustice 1963: L. Head 1964: Motley 1965: Window 1966: Kneebone 1967: Lindner / Obst 1968: Robran 1969: Phillis 1970: Robran 1971: R. Ebert 1972: Blight 1973: Robran 1974: R. Ebert 1975: Woite 1976: R. Ebert 1977: Trevor Grimwood 1978: Hodgeman 1979: Duckworth 1980: R. Ebert 1981: Aish 1982: McGuinness 1983: Antrobus 1984: Platten 1985: Fielke 1986: Anderson 1987: Jarman 1988: Whittlesea 1989: McAdam 1990: Hodges 1991: Naley 1992: Buckley 1993: B. Phillips 1994: McIntosh 1995: Kilpatrick / McIntosh 1996: Francou 1997: Atkinson / Jarman 1998: Osborn 1999: Squire 2000: Squire 2001: Brown / O'Connor 2002: Sheedy / Weatherald 2003: B. Ebert 2004: P. Thomas 2005: Clayton 2006: Backwell 2007: Allan 2008: Crane 2009: Archard / Ezard 2010: Allan 2011: Allan 2012: Cross / Symes 2013: M. Thomas 2014: Kirkwood 2015: Cross

The Magarey Medal has been awarded since 1898 to the "best and most brilliant" player in the South Australian National Football League and its various incarnations.

2004 AFL national draft

First round	1. Brett Deledio (PP) 2. Jarryd Roughead (PP) 3. Ryan Griffen (PP) 4. Richard Tambling 5. Lance Franklin 6. Tom Williams 7. Jordan Lewis 8. John Meesen 9. Jordan Russell 10. Chris Egan 11. Adam Thomson 12. Danny Meyer 13. Matthew Bate 14. Angus Monfries 15. Lynden Dunn 16. Adam Pattison 17. Andrew McQualter 18. Cameron Wood 19. Ryan Willits

Second round	20. Dean Polo 21. Thomas Murphy 22. Jesse Wells 23. Sean Rusling 24. Nathan van Berlo 25. Adam Hartlett 26. Matthew Little 27. Pat Garner 28. Chad Gibson 29. Matt Rosa 30. Andrew Lee 31. Jarred Moore 32. Brent Prismall 33. Cain Ackland 34. James Ezard 35. Fabian Deluca

Third round	36. Luke McGuane 37. Mark LeCras 38. Damien McCormack 39. Travis Cloke (F/S) 40. Ivan Maric 41. Luke Blackwell (F/S) 42. Jesse W. Smith (F/S) 43. Michael Newton 44. Mitch Morton (F/S) 45. Justin Sherman 46. Henry Slattery 47. David Spriggs 48. Nathan Ablett (F/S) 49. Mark McGough 50. Jayden Attard 51. Ben Eckermann

Fourth round	52. Dean Limbach 53. Simon Taylor 54. Stephen Tiller 55. Adam Iacobucci 56. Chris Knights 57. Brad Smith 58. Brad Moran 59. Benet Copping 59. Paul Thomas 60. Heath James 61. Matthew Egan 62. James Gwilt 63. Luke Forsyth

Fifth round	65. Mark Graham 67. Toby Stribling 68. Ben Schwarze 69. Daniel Haines 73. Chris Bryan

Sixth round	74. Daniel Pratt 77. Anthony Raso

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