Tom Gillies

Tom began his career with the Traralgon-based Tedas Junior Football Club. He then went on to play with the Narre Warren Football Club which led to getting selected to play for the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup. Gillies won the Stingrays best and fairest award in 2008. ==AFL career==

Gillies was selected by with the 33rd pick in the 2008 AFL draft. He made his debut in round 15 of the 2009 AFL season against the and played in six of the last eight games of the year. At the end of the year he was awarded Geelong's best first year player award. After playing 13 games in three seasons with Geelong, Gillies was delisted by the club at the end of the 2012 AFL season. He was offered a one-year contract by and joined the Demons ahead of the 2013 season. Gillies played just two matches for Melbourne in the middle of the 2013 AFL season under coach Mark Neeld and was delisted at the end of that season. ==Post AFL==

In 2014 he began playing for St Mary's in the Geelong Football League (GFL). Gillies had been preparing for life after the AFL taking the Victoria Police entrance exam and joining the police academy. After becoming one of the GFL's leading goalkickers, Gillies later joined the Bannockburn Football Club. ==Statistics==