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Bryce Gibbs (Australian rules footballer)

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Bryce Gibbs
Gibbs in June 2019
Personal information
Full name Bryce Gibbs
Date of birth (1989-03-15) 15 March 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth Adelaide, South Australia
Original team(s) Plympton (SA)/Glenelg (SANFL)
Draft No. 1, 2006 national draft
Height 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 85 kg (187 lb)
Position(s) Midfield
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2007–2017 Carlton 231 (137)
2018–2020 Adelaide 37 (15)
Total 268 (152)
International team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
2010 Australia 2
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2019.
2 State and international statistics correct as of 2010.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Bryce Gibbs (born 15 March 1989) is a retired professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club and the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Pre-AFL

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Gibbs was an exceptional youth talent, which led to much speculation about his ultimate AFL drafting.[1] In 2004 he won Glenelg's Under-17s best and fairest award despite spending part of the season playing SANFL reserve grade. That year he also captained the South Australian under-16s team at the national championships.

From Round 7 of the 2005 season, at age 16, he debuted in Glenelg's League team and was a regular until the end of the 2006 season. Playing as a teenager against grown men in the SANFL, Gibbs excelled, coming third in the club's 2006 best and fairest and dominating recent former AFL players during the season.[2]

He featured prominently in the 2006 under-18 national championships, where he was captain of South Australia. He was selected as the Under-18 All-Australian ruck-rover and was judged South Australia's Most Valuable Player. He also co-captained the Australian youth side against an Irish youth side in an international tournament in Australia in 2006.

Recruitment

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Speculation that Gibbs would be the No. 1 draft pick began early in the 2006 season.[citation needed] Although his father Ross Gibbs had a 253-game career with Glenelg, Bryce was ineligible to be taken by the Adelaide Crows under the father–son rule, much to the Crows' chagrin,[citation needed] because Ross had not yet played 200 of those games before the Crows entered the Australian Football League in 1991.[citation needed]

When Essendon and Carlton met in Round 16 of 2006, the sides were firmly entrenched at the bottom of the ladder, with Carlton having lost its last seven games and Essendon a then-club-record fourteen. Speculation that the result would decide the wooden spoon (and hence the first draft pick) led to the game jokingly being dubbed the "Bryce Gibbs Cup" by some in the media.[3] The match ended in a draw.

Carlton ultimately finished last, and subsequently selected Gibbs with the first overall pick in the 2006 AFL draft (held on 25 November 2006). He was given the No. 4 guernsey, formerly worn by club champion and administrator (and later, president), Stephen Kernahan, who was also a close friend and former Glenelg teammate of Gibbs' father.[3]

AFL career

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Gibbs was named in Carlton's leadership group for Carlton's 2007 season without having played a single AFL match, which is the first time in history this has happened.[citation needed]

He made his debut in round one against Richmond and kicked a goal with his first kick while becoming the 1100th player to play for Carlton. Seventeen disposals at 100 percent efficiency and a great shutdown role on Brownlow Medallist Jason Akermanis in round 10 earned Gibbs his nomination for the NAB Rising Star award.

Gibbs played every game of the 2007 season and kicked five goals. Most of his development and experience was in the backline, where he has played as a half-back flanker.

Gibbs in 2017

In 2008, new coach Brett Ratten reduced the size of the leadership group, and Gibbs was excluded from the new group. Gibbs played games as both an attacking midfielder and as a tagger throughout the season, playing very well in both roles. As a tagger, he convincingly beat several top-class opponents, including Chad Cornes (nine disposals), Heath Shaw (six disposals) and Adam Goodes, whom he held to seven disposals while collecting 26 of his own. In the midfield, he showed strong team ethic, very accurate disposal by foot, strong tackling, and very good football smarts and awareness. He collected seven Brownlow votes during the season and finished 5th in the club best and fairest.

In 2009, Gibbs began playing mainly as an attacking midfielder, and much less as a tagger. He finished the season with a total of 615 disposals (averaging 26.7) which was ranked ninth in the league, and polled 15 votes in the Brownlow Medal to finish equal ninth, and finished third in the club best and fairest.

In 2010, Gibbs began to divide his time between the midfield and the half-back line, playing as a rebounding defender. In round 10, his 45 disposals tied Greg Williams' efforts as the most by a Carlton player in a single game (since records were kept in 1984).[4] Gibbs finished fourth in the club best and fairest for 2010.[5]

In 2011, Gibbs celebrated his 100 games for Carlton against the Brisbane Lions.

In June 2012, Gibbs re-signed with Carlton for a further two years.[6]

In June 2014, Gibbs signed a new five-year deal with Carlton, keeping him at the club until the end of the 2019 season.[7] He went on to win his first John Nicholls Medal and was also named in the All Australian 40-man squad.

Despite being contracted to Carlton, Gibbs announced at the conclusion of the 2016 season that he wanted to return to South Australia for family reasons and requested a trade.[8] After failing to facilitate a trade with the Adelaide Football Club, he stayed with Carlton.[9] It was also in 2016 that he kicked 72.3 metres (237 ft) in the Fox Footy Longest Kick to win the competition and $10,000 as prize money.[10] The distance remains the record as of the end of 2023.

Carlton and Adelaide re-entered trade talks during the 2017 AFL trade season and finalised a trade to send Gibbs to Adelaide.[11]

Gibbs announced his retirement on 10 September 2020 and played his final AFL game in a match between Adelaide and Carlton on 13 September 2020.[12]

Statistics

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Statistics are correct to end of the 2019 season[13]
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
2007 Carlton 4 22 5 6 166 120 286 94 62 0.2 0.3 7.6 5.5 13.0 4.3 2.8
2008 Carlton 4 21 14 3 242 193 435 118 73 0.7 0.1 11.5 9.2 20.7 5.6 3.5
2009 Carlton 4 23 15 8 321 294 615 141 92 0.7 0.4 14.0 12.8 26.7 6.1 4.0
2010 Carlton 4 23 6 11 342 218 560 127 82 0.3 0.5 14.9 9.5 24.6 5.5 3.6
2011 Carlton 4 23 21 18 381 167 548 174 82 0.9 0.8 16.6 7.3 23.8 7.6 3.6
2012 Carlton 4 22 8 9 317 164 481 114 91 0.4 0.4 14.4 7.5 21.9 5.2 4.1
2013 Carlton 4 21 11 6 302 167 469 92 75 0.5 0.3 14.4 8.0 22.3 4.4 3.6
2014 Carlton 4 22 18 15 308 237 545 89 108 0.8 0.7 14.0 10.8 24.8 4.1 4.9
2015 Carlton 4 10 4 5 112 97 209 21 54 0.0 0.5 11.2 9.7 20.9 2.1 5.4
2016 Carlton 4 22 18 12 320 270 590 77 114 0.8 0.6 14.6 12.3 26.8 3.5 5.2
2017 Carlton 4 22 17 13 362 228 590 114 129 0.8 0.6 16.5 10.4 26.8 5.2 5.9
2018 Adelaide 6 22 13 15 354 215 569 82 118 0.6 0.7 16.1 9.8 25.9 3.7 5.4
2019 Adelaide 6 12 2 1 154 84 238 48 47 0.2 0.1 16.1 12.8 19.8 4 3.9
Career 265 246 122 3681 2454 6135 1291 1127 0.6 0.5 13.9 9.3 23.2 4.9 4.3

Personal life

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Gibbs is the son of former SANFL and WAFL player Ross Gibbs.

Gibbs graduated from Brighton Secondary School in 2006 where he sat his South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE).

Gibbs founded his own clothing line, Tushay Clothing, along with former Carlton and Collingwood player Jordan Russell.[14]

Gibbs and his partner, Lauren Tscharke, have two sons Charlie and Bailey and a daughter Madison.

Outside football

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Gibbs, along with team-mate Nick Stevens, appeared in the popular Australian drama Neighbours in October 2008.[15] He has represented South Australia in volleyball.

References

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  1. ^ The Canberra Times Archived 15 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Chosen one makes his mark Camp spotlight shines on Gibbs Archived 7 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Gibbs' AFL appetite growing
  3. ^ a b Passionate, skilful, hungry and smart Gibbs a kid with the lot Retrieved from The Herald Sun 12 November 2006
  4. ^ "AFL Tables - Player Season and Game Records (1965-2021)".
  5. ^ Carlton Football Club Judd in John Nicholls Medal threepeat Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 28 September 2010
  6. ^ Carlton Football Club Gibbs and Kreuzer commit to Carlton, Retrieved 6 June 2012
  7. ^ Carlton Football Club Gibbs a Blue for life, Retrieved 23 July 2014
  8. ^ Guthrie, Ben (10 October 2016). "Carlton star Bryce Gibbs requests trade to Adelaide". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  9. ^ Gaskin, Lee (20 October 2016). "Stalemate as Crows fail on Gibbs deal". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  10. ^ "Live coverage of Fox Footy's Longest Kick competition for 2016". Fox Sports. 1 October 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  11. ^ Bowen, Nick (19 October 2017). "Gibbs joins Crows in blockbuster trade". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  12. ^ AFL website announcement, 10 September 2020.
  13. ^ "AFL Tables - Bryce Gibbs - Stats - Statistics". afltables.com. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  14. ^ "About Us". Tushay Clothing. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  15. ^ Jones, Tony (27 July 2008). "Pssst". The Sunday Age. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
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