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Tyson Goldsack

Fast Facts

Jumper No: 38
Height: 191cm
Weight: 82kg
DOB: 22 May 1987
Age: 20
Recruited From: Gippsland Power (VIC)
Career Matches: 17
Career Goals: 0 (career matcher/goals at the end of the 2007 season)

2007 Home & Away Totals

Matches: 14
Goals: 0
Marks: 46
Disposals: 187
Kicks: 110

About

Versatile big man who has the ability to play in a number of positions, including midfield. Overage player with Gippsland Power in 2006 after completing pre-season with the Hawthorn Football Club. Showed good speed at the Victorian State Screening Session with a 20m Sprint time of 3.00sec.


Records

Draft History
2006 AFL Draft 4th round selection (Collingwood) No. 63 overall on-traded from Fremantle via Richmond

Debut
Round 8, 2007 v Western Bulldogs @ Telstra Dome

Awards
  • Round 22 AFL Army Award nomination for his relentless chase & strong diving tackle on Adelaide's Simon Goodwin.
  • Nominated for the AFL's best first year player
  • Round 21 Rising star nomination
  • Collingwood's Harry Collier Trophy for best first year player

Best Game
Round 21 V Sydney. Playing on Michael O'Loughlin, Goldsack gathered 25 possessions, took 8 marks, layed 4 tackles & kept O'Loughlin to 6 possessions and 1 goal. An extremely comendable effort against one of the best forwards in the game.:thumbsu:

Other Facts
  • Has a Fiancee
  • Lives with His Fiancee Jess
  • His hometown is Pakenham, VIC
  • A little peice of trivia, He is right handed... (not sure if it is relevent but thought I'd add it anyway!)
 
I've been trying to fix it up as well, seems to not like me either, I hope you are able to work it out and get it up. I'm sorry I wasn't much help there to you.
 
Don't worry, it's not your fault. I had lined all the stats etc up & it was all looking perfect, then after I posted it I realised it had no codes & it didn't turn out good, & I tried to edit it & put codes in but it all merged into one big long continuous line... going all accross the page... just a MESS!!!
I will work on it more once I'm in a better mood...:thumbsd:
 
MagpieGirl_13 said:




Tyson Goldsack

Fast Facts

Jumper No: 38
Height: 191cm
Weight: 82kg
DOB: 22 May 1987
Age: 20
Recruited From: Gippsland Power (VIC)
Career Matches: 17
Career Goals: 0 (career matcher/goals at the end of the 2007 season)

2007 Home & Away Totals

Matches: 14
Goals: 0
Marks: 46
Disposals: 187
Kicks: 110

About

Versatile big man who has the ability to play in a number of positions, including midfield. Overage player with Gippsland Power in 2006 after completing pre-season with the Hawthorn Football Club. Showed good speed at the Victorian State Screening Session with a 20m Sprint time of 3.00sec.


Records

Draft History
2006 AFL Draft 4th round selection (Collingwood) No. 63 overall on-traded from Fremantle via Richmond

Debut
Round 8, 2007 v Western Bulldogs @ Telstra Dome

Awards
  • Round 22 AFL Army Award nomination for his relentless chase & strong diving tackle on Adelaide's Simon Goodwin.
  • Nominated for the AFL's best first year player
  • Round 21 Rising star nomination
  • Collingwood's Harry Collier Trophy for best first year player
Best Game
Round 21 V Sydney. Playing on Michael O'Loughlin, Goldsack gathered 25 possessions, took 8 marks, layed 4 tackles & kept O'Loughlin to 6 possessions and 1 goal. An extremely comendable effort against one of the best forwards in the game.:thumbsu:

Interesting Facts
  • Lives with teammates Ben Reid, Brent MaCaffer & Nathan Brown
  • Has a Girlfriend
  • His hometown is Pakenham
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I think you will find this is now his finacee!!!
 

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Ok, I've calmed down now.:p
Thankyou guys SO much, It just wasn't working for me last night. I'll fiddle with it & sort something out for the stats! :thumbsu:

& luvlicca, I thought it was his fiancee. But could quite remember...:)
 
Thanks to The Majestic & nick_savo for all their help with getting these stats up. :thumbsu:

Season 2007 statistics

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I am glad to hear you have calmed down, though I bet some were watching the news and Sunrise to hear of some mad person screaming and carrying on in Queensland. :p
 
Pies pick 63 on the money

Written 31 August 2007

TYSON Goldsack struggled to break into the Gippsland Power under-18 team in 2005, failed to win a place on Hawthorn's rookie list in 2006 and was drafted by Collingwood at a lowly No. 63 this year.

Yet, nine months later, he is a starting defender for the Magpies, about to play in the AFL finals and enjoying somewhat of a minor cult following among fans who have dubbed him "Moneybags".

At the end of his schooldays, he grew suddenly and rapidly, from 180 to 192 centimetres, at last catching Gippsland's eye. Still, he did not take himself seriously as a footballer, preferring schoolies week to pre-season.

It took him until midway through the next season to break into a team that also featured Dale Thomas and Scott Pendlebury and would win the premiership.
"When he came off the bench, he showed some really exciting touches," said Francis. "I remember one game down at Morwell where he kicked four goals in a quarter and gave off four others. He showed bits and pieces."

At season's end, he nominated for the draft but was not selected, and he trialled to become a rookie at Hawthorn but missed out. Previously, that would have been the end of it. Goldsack said he might have played VFL, either for Frankston — where elder brother Jared then played — or Casey Scorpions, which was much closer to home.

But a new rule allowed under-18 teams two over-age players each, under strict criteria. Gippsland chose only one — Goldsack. It would be his making.

Call it the Goldsack dilemma. Tall, quick and a clean ball-handler, he knew he belonged — but where? Anywhere can too easily become nowhere. Asked now, he is clear. "I like it on the half-back flank, and on a wing, somewhere where I can have a bit of a bounce and a run."

Again, he put his hand up for the draft. Again, he waited. "I had a manager by now. He was quietly confident going in that Collingwood and maybe Hawthorn would come in," he said. "I spoke to various clubs. Collingwood came to my house and interviewed me. But I wasn't confident."

Draft morning coincided with a champagne Christmas breakfast at a neighbour's house. Goldsack and his father, Peter, sat in their car outside, listening. "Bit unsocial, I know," he said.
At last, his name was called. "I just couldn't believe it," he said. "For the first 10 minutes, I didn't think it was real. I still thought it was a dream. The phone was running hot all day.".

He was restricted in pre-season by residual groin soreness from his junior campaign that kept him from running before Christmas and by the club's policy not to overwork draftees. He struggled to put on weight. His highest ambition for the season was to play one game.

But revolution was afoot at Collingwood. In round eight, Goldsack became one of an eventual nine rookies blooded by the Magpies this year. "I thought: 'Well, here it is, let's have a crack at it,' " he said.

He has been rested only once since, and not spared at all. Twice, he has played on — and beaten — Michael O'Loughlin. Between times, he has played small, on Geelong's Steve Johnson, and tall, on Hawthorn's Lance Franklin.

Richardson acknowledged the history of one-season wonders from low in the draft, but said: "I can categorically say it won't be the case with this fellow.
"He has all the attributes to be a long-serving member of this footy club and a very good player. I'd be surprised if he couldn't sustain this form for the rest of his career."


This is an article I got off the net from http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/pies-pick-63-on-the-money/2007/08/30/1188067279679.html But I cut it down so as not to bore you too much :p
 
Here is a pic I took at the footy, & only just realised Goldsack was in it.
He's over on the right-hand side, just having a little look at what's going on, not getting involved which is good:thumbsu:

 

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Cheering for Tyson


12th September 2007 02:01:08 AM



Cheering for Collingwood, and Tyson Goldsack, are (clockwise from left) Brooke Galante, Julie Galante, Wendy Goldsack, Alanna Goldsack, Bailey Galante and Alix Galante.​

TYSON Goldsack’s Pies are red hot - and his proud Pakenham fans couldn’t be happier.

A loyal contingent of Collingwood fans have followed the rising young star through his dream debut season in the AFL.

Tyson’s mother Wendy, his sister Alanna, aunty Julie Galante and cousins Brooke, Alix and Bailey are regular fixtures at Magpie games, along with other members of their family.

They always attract plenty of cheers — and some good-natured ribbing — when the close-knit group travels into the city on the train.

“We’re all dressed in black and white so everybody knows who we’re barracking for,” Wendy says. “Supporters of opposition teams will stir us up but it’s all good fun.”

When Tyson played his first game, there was a rush to get the number 38 onto jumpers in time.

Wendy said even Collingwood supporters didn’t know who he was at first, but he’s certainly getting recognised now.

The Goldsacks won’t be able to make the journey to Perth to watch the Magpies play West Coast this Friday night, but footy will still be a number one priority.

Tyson’s brother Jared is playing for Pakenham in Saturday’s Casey Cardinia preliminary final against Keysborough.

Gembrook’s Michael Firrito and Pakenham’s Lachlan Hansen are also AFL finals contenders with the Kangaroos.

(From http://www.starnewsgroup.com.au/story/48418)
 
The Titan Times
This is the first edition of The Titan Times (the name may change, not sure yet.)

Flashback - Rnd 8
Tuesday 22 May 2007

Goldsack makes the grade

Tyson Goldsack described his first game of AFL football as something he’ll remember for the rest of his life.

Goldsack became the fifth player to make his league debut with the Magpies in season 2007 when he took to Telstra Dome for Sunday’s round eight clash with the Bulldogs, following Daniel Nicholls in round two and Brad Dick, Shannon Cox and Alan Toovey in round three.

Taken with the 63rd pick in the 2006 AFL Draft, the Magpies’ fifth selection overall, Goldsack gathered six kicks and six handpasses in an encouraging first-up display playing mainly off half back, and showed signs he has what it takes to establish a career at the elite level.

The athletic Pakenham native, who celebrated his 20th birthday on Tuesday, was taken aback when told by senior coach Mick Malthouse that he would be pulling on the famous black and white stripes for the first time against the Bulldogs.

“Probably for the first time in my life I was speechless,” the energetic Goldsack told collingwoodfc.com.au.

“I was on the massage table, and then Mick brought me to his office, shook my hand and said congratulations you’re debuting this week.

“He just kind of wished me well, that kind of thing, it was pretty full on, I was overwhelmed by it.”

Considered one of the biggest milestones in a footballer’s life, Goldsack’s first league game was always going to generate enormous interest among not only the Magpie supporters, but of course friends and family, and eventually the nerves set in.

“I turned my phone off the day before because I was getting a fair few messages. The Footy Show was on the Thursday night, and when they read the team out at about ten o’clock it was just messages galore.

“It probably hadn’t sunk in for the first day and a half, it wasn’t until about the Saturday that it started to sink in a bit more and I started to get a bit nervous, that was probably as nervous as I was."

Then came the much anticipated day of the game.

“Sunday morning I woke up at about 7:30, I just couldn’t get back to sleep. Once I got to the ground it was pretty good, it just kind of felt normal.

“You train with all the guys during the week, and that’s just how it’s meant to be, so once I got to the ground it was pretty good, and running out was massive.

“You do the on-ground warm-up so you kind of get a bit of a feel for it, but running out and having the big banner in your face, and the crowd’s just screaming, it was pretty overwhelming, it was great."

Some first-gamers get eased into the play, but after a series of impressive outings at Williamstown, the Collingwood coaching staff felt Goldsack was ready and able to start.

“I started on the half back flank, it was pretty weird, I was one of the first players walking down to the backline, it was all surreal,” Goldsack added.

“I remember it clear as day, just every little thing. Running out, the bounce of the ball, running around on Telstra Dome, it was unreal, and then the couple of little mistakes that you make during the game, it feels so much worse than it would at Willy, because everyone’s watching.

“You can’t hear your team mates as well because everyone’s roaring in the background, they say try and zone it out, but it’s impossible not to notice.”

Goldsack has an interesting background in that he is a success story of the rule introduced in the TAC Cup competition last year, where each club was able to select two players who were a year over the Under 18 age limit, to give players who may have encountered some hurdles a chance to impress at the elite junior level.

He was subsequently given a chance by the Gippsland Power, and didn’t disappoint. Not only has he come into the system through an unconventional method, but he also encountered some off-season groin problems which he had to overcome.

“With the groin, it limits your preseason, but I always had it set that I wanted to play this year, that’s just how it was.

“I suppose I’m a year older than the other guys who got drafted, so I didn’t feel like I had to play, I just felt like I needed to kind of play catch up.”

http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/tabId/5586/default.aspx?newsId=43735
 
The Titan Times

Flashback - Rnd 21
Tuesday 28 August 2007

A just reward for young gun Goldsack

Tyson Goldsack spoke to CTV after becoming the third Magpie to be nominated for the 2007 AFL Rising Star award.

The 20-year-old from Pakenham has enjoyed an excellent debut season after being snared with the 63rd pick in the 2006 AFL Draft, something the Collingwood recruiting department can certainly be proud of.

He follows team mates Scott Pendlebury (round four) and Martin Clarke (round 13) as nominees for the prestigious award recognising the finest young talent in the game, and after a team-high 25 possessions playing on Sydney star Michael O’Loughlin last Saturday night, his nomination became a formality.

“It’s been good so far. I had the rest last week, so I felt fresh going into the game, and I suppose I was just trying to get as much run out of the legs as I could. I suppose it worked out alright, so it was good,” Goldsack said at the Lexus Centre on Tuesday.

A good performance it was indeed, keeping O’Loughlin, who he also played on back in round 12 during the Magpies’ win at Telstra Stadium, to only six disposals and one goal.

“It definitely helps knowing a bit about the player. Like last time, just the way he moves and the way he leads, you know how to cut him off and shut down his leads, so that was probably the main thing, and just to know how he goes about his football.”

But it came as no surprise to people at the club who have become accustomed to Goldsack’s run, courage, poise and carry coming out of the back half since he made his debut in round eight against the Western Bulldogs.

However, he hasn’t always been a defender, in fact he played just about everywhere, including wing and centre-half forward, while playing for the Gippsland Power in 2006.

“It’s been a bit different, definitely a learning curve, but I played down back in VFL obviously, and stepped up to play backline for Collingwood.

“It’s my favourite position, the half back flank and maybe on a wing. It’s just a bit different not getting the celebrations of a goal, or getting the highlights or that kind of thing, when you kick a goal.

“But again, it’s more about the team, and doing your thing for the team, and getting the win.”

On earning the Rising Star nomination, Goldsack was visibly delighted, but is very level-headed about what it means and his progress.

“It’s just another step in your development. I suppose it’s a good thing to look back on and have on your CV, but I’m not so much about the awards, I just want to play footy and get as many games under my belt as I can this year, and hopefully go on with it next year like some of the boys have done, like Dale (Thomas) and Scotty (Pendlebury).

http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/tabId/5586/default.aspx?newsId=49970
 
The Titan Times

Flashback - Preliminary Final
Sat 22 September, 2007

Finals run will serve us well: Goldsack

EMERGING defender Tyson Goldsack says Collingwood’s young guns will carry plenty of hope going into next season after finishing just five points adrift of Geelong on Friday night.

“You don’t want to get too confident because there are a few teams with good young players coming through,” Goldsack said.

“You don’t want to get ahead of yourself but we’ve still got the confidence to go out there and win a match. We’ll see how we go. Only time will tell, I suppose.”

It’s been a meteoric rise for the 20-year-old, who this time last year was playing for Gippsland Power after spending the pre-season with Hawthorn.

He made his debut in round eight this year and has played every game since. He was even nominated for the NAB AFL Rising Star Award in round 21.

Although Mick Malthouse has been fervent in his praise for his younger players' maturity and confidence, the modest youngster says it’s too early to start evaluating his season just yet.

“It’s pretty hard to look back at the moment. We just wanted to win tonight, that was the main goal,” he said.

“The whole coaching staff has so much confidence in us. It helps having their trust and knowing when you go out there, they’ve got your back.”
Goldsack admits that although it was gut wrenching to miss a place in the Grand Final, the Pies’ odyssey to the prelim was gratifying.

“Some people, at the start of the year, wrote us off as wooden spooners, so it’s good in a way that we could prove them wrong and go about it in our own way. I feel like the team that we have, we can never be beaten by that much because we’re so hard at the ball. We’ve just got to be harder for longer.”

Goldsack says when the Pies got within five points in the dying moments, a frenzy of thoughts were going through his head.

“I was just thinking 'Kick a goal'. I just wanted to get the ball going our way. It was in our forward 50 so everything was going through my head. I was thinking about where my man was and trying to create that goal to get us over the line. It didn’t happen in the end - the siren beat us.
“It was there for the taking but hopefully in a few more years when us guys mature even further, hopefully we can get another chance and maybe this time take it.”

Goldsack says that more than anything, he feels for senior players like Nathan Buckley, who will rue missing out on playing football on the last Saturday in September so narrowly.

“Watching them after the game, they were just so shattered. You just want to go out there and you’re not just playing for yourself, you want to win it for them more so than anyone.”

http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/tabId/5586/default.aspx?newsId=51553
 

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Here are a few pictures of Tyson at the Family Day.
Thanks to Tyson for his autograph & a HUGE thanks to Snag Breac for getting his autograph for me & taking these pictures!:thumbsu:





(I managed to re-size them)
 
Here is a quote from Strauchanie's book 'Bryan Strauchan: My Story' about Tyson.

"38. Tyson Goldsack - A man's lollybag is his own private man's business & Strauchanie does not approve of young Tyson making fun of it like that"

:D
 
My hopes for Tyson in 08

I'm predicting big things from Tyson next season. He will be entering just his second season of AFL football with 17 games under his belt, three of them being in finals. Last season he only missed one game because he was rested. I am hoping that Tyson can play all 22 games of the home & away season plus some finals games, if the team plays finals. Last pre season he struggled with groin problems, hopefully these wont hamper him too much this pre season or through out next season. I expect him to almost be a certain starter for every game, should he not be hampered by injuries. I think he will probably play around half back & should provide some tough competition for the big forwards of the game. When we come up against Sydney, if he is matched up on O'Lauchlan... watch out... Tyson will get you...
He will be one to watch in the years to come.

Go TYSON!!! Make 2008 GREAT!!! (I know that sounds really corny but oh well...)
 
!!News Flash!!

Pre season update on my man Goldy.

It is still unclear if he will be playing in the Dubai game (I read it in an article but when posting this I couldn't find that article), hopefully he will but if he doesn't he will be ready to go when the season starts.

Here's a pic from training in South Africa.... I think we may have a new contender for Collingwood's Albino... Watchout Burnsey!!! :D

 
Pre-season Update

An experience to remember for Goldsack
1:23 PM Thu 14 February, 2008

Tyson Goldsack’s first overseas trip was one he will always cherish.

Following Collingwood’s recent two-and-a-half-week high-altitude training camp in South Africa, the 20-year-old from Pakenham stayed on with ten team mates to spend three days in Cape Town and conduct the club’s Telstra AFL Community Camp in what is Collingwood’s designated development zone.

Goldsack and his fellow Magpies conducted clinics and school visits for hundreds of enthusiastic children in the region, many of whom have adopted Australian Rules Football as their number one sport.

“I didn’t really know what to expect, obviously in Cape Town it’s a foreign sport, but getting there, and seeing the kids and seeing how keen they were to participate and get involved, it was just amazing,” Goldsack told CTV.

“Obviously they didn’t know the game that well, they were just so enthusiastic and they were singing and dancing, it was an unreal feeling over there."

While still a new game to most in South Africa, Goldsack was startled by how well many of the kids have picked up the sport, and was even more impressed by how strong the results were in the agility test he was assigned to running on the mini draft camp session designed to test specific attributes of a select group of emerging African players.

“Their hands, and the marking of the eight to ten year olds, was as good if not better than over here in Australia.

“Just their athleticism, I was doing the agility testing, and some of them were freak athletes, so I’d probably recommend (Collingwood recruiting manager) Derek Hine to get over there and have a look at a few of them.”

The reception the Collingwood players received upon arriving at the various venues was quite extraordinary, with teachers and volunteer coaches leading hundreds of children in perfectly orchestrated native singing and chanting.

Another highlight of the camp was when the players visited Sithembele Matiso High School to present a certificate to the school honouring the achievement of Simphiwe Tyolashe, a student who had been selected to represent the South African national AFL team, which at the time was touring the country and taking on the Australian Indigenous All-Star junior team.

The turnout at the school was incredible and they were clearly extremely proud of the their schoolmate for his achievement.

Development manager Alan Richardson and club physiotherapist Rob Hunt also conducted a coaching seminar for around 50 local volunteer AFL coaches in the region, which proved an extremely beneficial experience for all involved.

Throughout the camp, the Africans’ love for music and sound was on display, and never more so when the DJ arrived and set up next to the ground the clinics were being held on, with hundreds of kids flocking to a makeshift dance floor and dancing away to the blaring native beats once they had completed the clinic.

“People dancing on the sidelines, and the kids involved in clinics, but I couldn’t help but do a couple of moves when I had the stopwatch out and was trying to time their runs, it was like being in a nightclub and playing football at the same time,” added Goldsack, who played 17 matches and won Collingwood’s best first-year player award in 2007.

The overall South African experience for Goldsack was extremely special, and with the way it was organised, allowed for intensive and regular training at high altitude, mainly in Potchefstroom where the club was based, but also allowed opportunities for the players to see some of the real South Africa.

“The culture’s far more different than Australia, we got to go out to a safari, and to the shanty towns, and really see the poverty of South Africa, and we were in Cape Town and saw the higher parts.

“I’d never been overseas before, and just to see that was a real eye-opener. We had lunch one day on top of a building overlooking the town, and you could scan across the town and see some of the parts that were really poverty-stricken, and then other parts that weren’t too bad, but not as adequate as Australia.

“It was an amazing feeling and good experience.”

& here's the video link http://bigpondvideo.com/afl/43468
 
Tyson at home with the kids at the South African training camp


Tyson Goldsack loving it!


Tyson Goldsack supervises a handball drill​
 

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