Ian Thomson (Australian rules footballer)

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Ian Thomson
Personal information
Full name Ian Peter Thomson
Date of birth (1949-09-06) 6 September 1949 (age 71)
Height 189 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 88 kg (194 lb)
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1967–1978 East Perth 89 (75)
1973–1976 South Melbourne 74 (61)
1979–1982 East Fremantle 45 (127)
Representative team honours
YearsTeamGames (Goals)
1971 Western Australia 1 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1982.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Ian Peter Thomson (born 6 September 1949) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also played for East Perth and East Fremantle in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).

Thomson, a key position player, started his career at East Perth in 1967. [1] [2] He represented Western Australia in an interstate match against Victoria at Subiaco Oval on 17 July 1971. [3]

Before the beginning of the 1973 VFL season, Thomson was in talks to join Fitzroy, but was signed by South Melbourne. [4] He played 20 games in his first year, as a centre half-back. [4] [5] In 1974 he appeared in all 22 rounds and took a club high 120 marks. [5] Used up forward for much of the year, Thomson also kicked 24 goals. [5] He broke an ankle bone in a 1975 pre-season practice match, which kept him out of the side until round five, then towards the end of the season suffered a knee injury, which restricted him to 13 games that season. [5] [6] [7] The next year he played 19 games and had a six-goal haul against St Kilda at Moorabbin Oval. [5] [8]

In 1977 and 1978, Thomson was back at East Perth. [2] He was only playing suburban football early in the 1979 season when he got recruited by East Fremantle, where he was used as a forward. [4] It was at full-forward that he kicked four goals for East Fremantle in their 1979 WANFL Grand Final win over South Fremantle. [9] With prolific goal scoring teammate Kevin Taylor at South Melbourne, Thomson topped East Fremantle's goal-kicking in 1981. [10]

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  1. Five players kicked 100 goals, a number equalled in the major leagues of VFL/AFL, VFA/VFL, or SANFL, only in the 1939 VFA season.
  2. Frank "Scranno" Jenkins won the Sandover Medal in his debut season of senior football with a record high under the 3-2-1 voting system of 34 votes.
  3. In the second round, East Fremantle broke their own 21-year-old record for the highest score in league history.
  4. East Perth drew three games in one season, a feat equalled in major Australian Rules Leagues only by VFA club Moorabbin in 1958 and West Perth in 1960. The Royals could easily have drawn a fourth game but for crowd acclamation preventing umpires from hearing the bell against Subiaco on Foundation Day. No senior Australian Rules team at any level is known to have tied four matches in a season, but Geelong’s Under-19s did so in 1971.
  5. Swan Districts, with Ted Holdsworth kicking at least six goals in each of the first ten games, reached their first finals series in only their fourth WANFL season. Holdsworth was to reach his 100 goals in two fewer games than George Doig took in his 152-goal 1934 season, but concussion and a broken hand eliminated the prospect of a new record.

Stephen Neil Richardson is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon, Swan Districts, East Perth and Norwood.

References

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN   9781920910785.
  2. 1 2 "League Games Played". East Perth Football Club. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012.
  3. ↑ "Carlton top man will play in State side". The Canberra Times . 17 July 1971. p. 35 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. 1 2 3 "Swan Songs – with Ian Thomson". Sydney Swans.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Ian Thomson". AFL Tables.
  6. ↑ The Age , "South loses forward", 19 March 1975, p. 15
  7. ↑ The Age, "Replacements", 4 August 1975, p. 26
  8. ↑ "North Melbourne moves into VFL top five". The Canberra Times . 7 June 1976. p. 14 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ "Scores". The Canberra Times . 23 September 1979. p. 27 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ↑ "Ian Thomson (East Fremantle)". West Australian Football League.
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