James Thiessen (born 10 February 1974) is a former

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er who played for the

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and

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in the

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(AFL), as well as

Norwood Football Club Norwood Football Club, nicknamed the Redlegs, is an Australian rules football club competing in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) in the state of South Australia. Its home ground is Coopers Stadium (Norwood Oval), which is ...

in the

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(SANFL). His father

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had played league football three decades earlier. Playing mainly on the wing, Thiessen started his AFL career at Richmond in 1993, debuting in a 139-point loss to his future club , but was delisted after just one season. He spent the next four years with Norwood in the

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, playing in their 1997 premiership side and also winning a

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that year for his performance for South Australia in an interstate match against the ACT. Thiessen was recruited by the Adelaide Crows for the 1998 season and played in their winning

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that year against

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. He remained with them for two more seasons before returning to Norwood.

Playing statistics

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1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 46 , , 7 , , 3 , , 8 , , 83 , , 34 , , 117 , , 21 , , 4 , , 0.4 , , 1.1 , , 11.9 , , 4.9 , , 16.7 , , 3.0 , , 0.6 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" ,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 29 , , 24 , , 8 , , 13 , , 217 , , 104 , , 321 , , 64 , , 34 , , 0.3 , , 0.5 , , 9.0 , , 4.3 , , 13.4 , , 2.7 , , 1.4 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 29 , , 18 , , 13 , , 8 , , 160 , , 84 , , 244 , , 62 , , 19 , , 0.7 , , 0.4 , , 8.9 , , 4.7 , , 13.6 , , 3.4 , , 1.1 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 29 , , 2 , , 0 , , 0 , , 1 , , 4 , , 5 , , 1 , , 1 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 0.5 , , 2.0 , , 2.5 , , 0.5 , , 0.5 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 51 ! 24 ! 29 ! 461 ! 226 ! 687 ! 148 ! 58 ! 0.5 ! 0.6 ! 9.0 ! 4.4 ! 13.5 ! 2.9 ! 1.1

References

External links

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James Thiessen profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thiessen, James 1974 births Living people Richmond Football Club players Adelaide Football Club players Adelaide Football Club premiership players Norwood Football Club players People educated at Haileybury (Melbourne) Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) VFL/AFL premiership players