Tom Sparrow

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Tom Sparrow
Personal information
Full name Thomas Sparrow
Date of birth (2000-05-31) 31 May 2000 (age 21)
Original team(s) South Adelaide (SANFL)
Draft No. 27, 2018 national draft
Debut Round 1, 2019, Melbourne
vs. Port Adelaide, at MCG
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 84 kg (185 lb)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current club Melbourne
Number 32
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2019– Melbourne 28 (10)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2021.
Career highlights
  • AFL premiership player: 2021
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Thomas Sparrow (born 31 May 2000) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Growing up in the Adelaide Hills, Sparrow attended Scott Creek Primary and began his footballing career at Bridgewater Football Club. He was drafted by Melbourne with their first selection and twenty-seventh overall in the 2018 national draft He made his debut in the twenty-six point loss to Port Adelaide at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the opening round of the 2019 season as a late inclusion replacing injured teammate Jordan Lewis.[1]

Statistics[]

Statistics are correct to the end of the 2021 season [2]
Legend
 G  Goals  K  Kicks  D  Disposals  T  Tackles
 B  Behinds  H  Handballs  M  Marks
Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game)
G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
2019 Melbourne 32 2 1 0 17 5 22 2 8 0.5 1.0 8.5 2.5 11.0 1.0 4.0
2020[a] Melbourne 32 5 2 1 26 30 56 9 13 0.4 0.2 5.2 6.0 11.2 1.8 2.6
2021#[b] Melbourne 32 21 7 4 102 84 186 40 57 0.3 0.2 4.9 4.0 8.9 1.9 2.7
Career 28 10 7 145 119 264 51 78 0.4 0.3 5.2 4.3 9.4 1.8 2.8

Notes

  1. ^ The 2020 season was played with 17 home-and-away matches per team (down from 22) and 16-minute quarters with time on (down from 20-minute quarters with time on) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  2. ^ Statistics include two games in which Sparrow was used as a medical substitute (rounds 4 and 11) and five games in which he was an unused medical substitute (rounds 5, 10, 17, 18 and 19).

Honours and achievements[]

Team

References[]

  1. ^ Harrington, Anna (23 March 2019). "Melbourne draftee Tom Sparrow debuts against Port Adelaide after Jordan Lewis suffers a hamstring injury". Fox Sports Australia. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Tom Sparrow". AFL Tables. Retrieved 24 March 2019.

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