Tom Davidson (born 3 February 1983) is a former
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er who was recruited from the
Geelong Falcons
The Geelong Falcons is a youth Australian rules football representative club in the Talent League, the Victorian statewide under-18s competition in Victoria, Australia.
The club takes in talented junior players from the Geelong, Colac and Warr ...
in the
2001 AFL Draft
The 2001 AFL draft consisted of a state draft, a body draft, a pre-season draft and a trade period. The AFL draft is the annual draft of players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Austr ...
by the
Collingwood Football Club
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. ...
.
His career was hindered by two serious knee injuries, the first during the 2003 preseason,
and the second in his first and only
Australian Football League
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(AFL) game in April 2004. He was delisted by Collingwood at the end of the 2005 season, but drafted by in the 2006 rookie draft by the Western Bulldogs, but never again played senior football.
He is the son of former Richmond and Geelong footballer
Garry Davidson.
Davidson currently owns and runs Patch Cafe in Richmond.
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Living people
1983 births
Collingwood Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Geelong Falcons players
21st-century Australian sportsmen