Quick Facts
Biography
Tom Lynch (born 15 September 1990) is a professional Australian rules football player who plays for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by St Kilda from Sandringham Dragons Under 18 TAC Cup team with pick 13 in the 2008 National Draft. Lynch was then traded to Adelaide following the 2011 season.
AFL career
St Kilda (2009–2011)
St Kilda's first pick in the 2008 draft, Lynch did not play senior football in 2009. He made his AFL debut in round 18 of the 2010 season against Essendon. He had five disposals and was dropped for the following week's match.
Lynch played five games in 2011 and kicked four goals, including two in a game against North Melbourne. At the end of the season, Lynch was traded from St Kilda to Adelaide as part of a three-way deal with Richmond, who received ruckman Ivan Maric from Adelaide whilst trading pick 37 to St Kilda.
Adelaide (2012–)
Lynch played his first game for the Crows in the first round of the 2012 season. He went on to play six games in his first season at the Crows, but became a regular member of the team the next year, playing 17 matches and leading Adelaide's goalkicking with 33 goals. This included a 10-goal game against Greater Western Sydney, making Lynch only the third player to score ten or more goals in a game for Adelaide. In 2014, however, Lynch suffered a wretched run of injuries, including a dislocated shoulder in a pre-season trial game, a broken jaw in a collision with Melbourne's Jack Viney in round 7, and, after a late-season return, a season-ending fractured neck in a collision against the Brisbane Lions in round 20. In total, he played eight games, and only one where he was available and uninjured for the whole game: a 25-disposal, two-goal effort against the Western Bulldogs in round 6.
Lynch established himself in Adelaide's forward line in 2015, playing all 23 games, kicking 32 goals and having 30 goal assists, the most for the season by any player. Late in the season he signed a new three-year contract with the Crows.
Statistics
| Legend | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | Goals | B | Behinds | K | Kicks | H | Handballs | D | Disposals | M | Marks | T | Tackles |
| Season | Team | # | Games | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals | Averages (per game) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | St Kilda | 29 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 |
| 2011 | St Kilda | 29 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 28 | 26 | 54 | 16 | 13 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 5.6 | 5.2 | 10.8 | 3.2 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | Adelaide | 27 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 50 | 9 | 59 | 31 | 8 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 8.3 | 1.5 | 9.8 | 5.2 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | Adelaide | 27 | 17 | 33 | 20 | 199 | 95 | 294 | 125 | 31 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 11.7 | 5.6 | 17.3 | 7.4 | 1.8 |
| 2014 | Adelaide | 27 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 68 | 41 | 109 | 35 | 13 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 8.5 | 5.1 | 13.6 | 4.4 | 1.6 |
| 2015 | Adelaide | 27 | 23 | 32 | 16 | 292 | 143 | 435 | 158 | 43 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 12.7 | 6.2 | 18.9 | 6.9 | 1.9 |
| 2016 | Adelaide | 27 | 11 | 21 | 12 | 143 | 78 | 221 | 72 | 13 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 13.0 | 7.1 | 20.1 | 6.6 | 1.2 |
| Career | 71 | 104 | 62 | 783 | 394 | 1177 | 440 | 121 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 11.0 | 5.6 | 16.6 | 6.2 | 1.7 | ||