Lindsay Gilbee (born 8 July 1981) is a former
Australian rules footballer who played for the
Western Bulldogs
The Western Bulldogs are a professional Australian rules football team that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition.
Founded in 1877 as the Footscray Football Club, and based in West Footscray in the o ...
in the
Australian Football League (AFL). He was selected by the Bulldogs in the 3rd round of the 1999 National AFL Draft with pick 43 after playing for the
Eastern Ranges
The Eastern Ranges is an Australian rules football team in the NAB League, the Victorian statewide under-18s competition.
The club is a founding member of the competition (1992) and has produced several players for the Australian Football Leag ...
in the
TAC Cup
The NAB League Boys (also referred to as simply the NAB League and formerly known as the TAC Cup) is an under-19 Australian rules football representative competition held in Australia. It is based on geographic regions throughout country Vict ...
.
He retired after the 2012 season. Gilbee currently serves as a development coach at the
St Kilda Football Club.
Known as one of the best kicks in the AFL, Gilbee rejected offers to trial in the United States to become an
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...
punter.
In 2019, Gilbee's family discovered that his maternal grandmother was an
Indigenous
Indigenous may refer to:
*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention
*Indigenous (band), an American blues-rock band
*Indigenous (horse), a Hong Kong racehorse ...
woman from the
Booandik
The Bungandidj people are an Aboriginal Australian people from the Mount Gambier region in south-eastern South Australia, and also in western Victoria. Their language is the Bungandidj language. Bungandidj was historically frequently rendered a ...
people, who was raised in fostercare, after her mother died within weeks of childbirth.
Statistics
:
Lindsay Gilbee's player profile at AFL Tables
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2002
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2003
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2004
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, 9 , , 12 , , 3 , , 1 , , 119 , , 71 , , 190 , , 48 , , 16 , , 0.3 , , 0.1 , , 9.9 , , 5.9 , , 15.8 , , 4.0 , , 1.3
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2005
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, 9 , , 22 , , 21 , , 5 , , 329 , , 126 , , 455 , , 108 , , 38 , , 1.0 , , 0.2 , , 15.0 , , 5.7 , , 20.7 , , 4.9 , , 1.7
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2006
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2007
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, -
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2008
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, 9 , , 24 , , 14 , , 8 , , 352 , , 157 , , 509 , , 112 , , 24 , , 0.6 , , 0.3 , , 14.7 , , 6.5 , , 21.2 , , 4.7 , , 1.0
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2009
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, 9 , , 24 , , 24 , , 12 , , 340 , , 169 , , 509 , , 113 , , 45 , , 1.0 , , 0.5 , , 14.2 , , 7.0 , , 21.2 , , 4.7 , , 1.9
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2010
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, 9 , , 25 , , 7 , , 9 , , 352 , , 171 , , 523 , , 139 , , 48 , , 0.3 , , 0.4 , , 14.1 , , 6.8 , , 20.9 , , 5.6 , , 1.9
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2011
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, 9 , , 13 , , 10 , , 2 , , 130 , , 70 , , 200 , , 50 , , 30 , , 0.8 , , 0.2 , , 10.0 , , 5.4 , , 15.4 , , 3.8 , , 2.3
, -
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2012
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, 9 , , 4 , , 1 , , 0 , , 41 , , 31 , , 72 , , 19 , , 3 , , 0.3 , , 0.0 , , 10.3 , , 7.8 , , 18.0 , , 4.8 , , 0.8
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! colspan=3, Career
! 206
! 119
! 66
! 2525
! 1257
! 3782
! 945
! 311
! 0.6
! 0.3
! 12.3
! 6.1
! 18.4
! 4.6
! 1.5
References
External links
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Western Bulldogs players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
1981 births
Living people
All-Australians (AFL)
Eastern Ranges players
Williamstown Football Club players
Australia international rules football team players
Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football