| Tyson Edwards | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Tyson Edwards | ||
| Date of birth | (1976-08-06)6 August 1976 (age 48) | ||
| Place of birth | Adelaide,Australia | ||
| Original team(s) | West Adelaide (SANFL) | ||
| Draft | 21st overall,1994 Pre-Season draft Adelaide | ||
| Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1995–2010 | Adelaide | 321 (192) | |
| International team honours | |||
| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| 2002 | Australia | 2 (?) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2010. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources:AFL Tables,AustralianFootball.com | |||
Tyson Edwards (born 6 August 1976) is a formerAustralian rules footballer with theAdelaide Football Club in theAustralian Football League (AFL). Raised in the smallMallee town ofWynarka, around 120 km fromAdelaide, he is widely regarded as one of the most consistent and durable players to have played the game.[1]
Between the ages of 11 and 15, Edwards' mother Jan would drive him the 250 km round trip to Adelaide at least twice a week so that he could train with West Adelaide's junior teams.
Recruited fromWest Adelaide in theSANFL, Edwards made hisAFL debut in1995 and subsequently established himself as one of the AFL's most consistent and underrated midfielders. This is to such an extent that he has not won any of the AFL's major awards, or even a club best-and-fairest award; his greatest honours were being a member of Adelaide's1997 and1998 premiership sides.
In 2008, he placed fourth in the Crows Club Champion voting, with 137 votes,[2] again highlighting his consistency within the playing group.
Edwards played his 300th game for the Adelaide Crows against Essendon in Round 11, 2009. The Crows won the match 21.4 (130) – 18.6 (114), and Edwards celebrated by gathering an equal-career-best 41 possessions. Four games later, he and dual-premiership teammateAndrew McLeod played their 290th match together, setting a new VFL/AFL record in the process; they extended this record to 307 games, which, as of the end of the2022 AFL season, remains the league record.
On 27 May 2010, Edwards announced his retirement from the AFL, effective immediately, after being dropped from the Adelaide side.[3] CoachNeil Craig later agreed to allow Edwards a farewell game, his 321st, the next week againstFremantle in Adelaide. The decision worked wonders, with the Crows upsetting the second-placed Dockers by 23 points, with Edwards again celebrating his milestone with a best-on-ground effort featuring 32 possessions and two goals.
On 19 March 2011, Edwards revealed he had battledtesticular cancer in his final year at theAdelaide Crows, in what he described as his "year from hell".[4]
Edwards was an assistant coach at thePort Adelaide Football Club from seasons2012 to2015.
He is married to Mandy with three sons: Jackson,Luke, and Brodie.
Jackson was drafted as afather–son selection in the2017 Rookie draft but was delisted after one season without playing a match, while Luke was drafted by theWest Coast Eagles as the 52nd pick in the2020 AFL draft.
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 | ||||
| 1995 | Adelaide | 37 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 82 | 69 | 151 | 26 | 8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 6.8 | 5.8 | 12.6 | 2.2 | 0.7 |
| 1996 | Adelaide | 37 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 94 | 61 | 155 | 41 | 26 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 5.5 | 3.6 | 9.1 | 2.4 | 1.5 |
| 1997 | Adelaide | 9 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 108 | 69 | 177 | 57 | 34 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 6.4 | 4.1 | 10.4 | 3.4 | 2.0 |
| 1998 | Adelaide | 9 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 93 | 52 | 145 | 42 | 13 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 6.2 | 3.5 | 9.7 | 2.8 | 0.9 |
| 1999 | Adelaide | 9 | 20 | 20 | 5 | 144 | 85 | 229 | 72 | 31 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 7.2 | 4.3 | 11.5 | 3.6 | 1.6 |
| 2000 | Adelaide | 9 | 22 | 14 | 12 | 313 | 122 | 435 | 114 | 47 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 14.2 | 5.5 | 19.8 | 5.2 | 2.1 |
| 2001 | Adelaide | 9 | 23 | 12 | 16 | 322 | 159 | 481 | 102 | 62 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 14.0 | 6.9 | 20.9 | 4.4 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | Adelaide | 9 | 25 | 16 | 7 | 335 | 153 | 488 | 109 | 57 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 13.4 | 6.1 | 19.5 | 4.4 | 2.3 |
| 2003 | Adelaide | 9 | 23 | 19 | 11 | 276 | 163 | 439 | 96 | 49 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 12.0 | 7.1 | 19.1 | 4.2 | 2.1 |
| 2004 | Adelaide | 9 | 22 | 18 | 20 | 303 | 135 | 438 | 108 | 62 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 13.8 | 6.1 | 19.9 | 4.9 | 2.8 |
| 2005 | Adelaide | 9 | 25 | 17 | 3 | 317 | 237 | 554 | 106 | 73 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 12.7 | 9.5 | 22.2 | 4.2 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | Adelaide | 9 | 22 | 15 | 4 | 301 | 241 | 542 | 116 | 79 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 13.7 | 11.0 | 24.6 | 5.3 | 3.6 |
| 2007 | Adelaide | 9 | 23 | 7 | 8 | 348 | 231 | 579 | 132 | 94 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 15.1 | 10.0 | 25.2 | 5.7 | 4.1 |
| 2008 | Adelaide | 9 | 23 | 19 | 15 | 306 | 195 | 501 | 140 | 71 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 13.3 | 8.5 | 21.8 | 6.1 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | Adelaide | 9 | 22 | 8 | 12 | 289 | 265 | 554 | 125 | 86 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 13.1 | 12.0 | 25.2 | 5.7 | 3.9 |
| 2010 | Adelaide | 9 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 127 | 99 | 226 | 55 | 38 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 12.7 | 9.9 | 22.6 | 5.5 | 3.8 |
| Career | 321 | 192 | 125 | 3758 | 2336 | 6094 | 1441 | 830 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 11.7 | 7.3 | 19.0 | 4.5 | 2.6 | ||
