Tom Fields (born 19 December 1992) is a former professional
Australian rules football
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er who played for the
Carlton Football Club
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Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Mel ...
in the
Australian Football League
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(AFL).
Fields was raised in Queensland. He played football for
North East Australian Football League
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club
Labrador
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, and he represented Queensland at the
2011 AFL Under 18 Championships
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. After the 2012 season, Fields moved to Adelaide and played in the
South Australian National Football League
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Originally formed as the ...
for
South Adelaide
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Fields was then recruited to the AFL at age 22 by in the third round of the 2015 Rookie Draft (pick No. 41 overall). He played much of the 2015 season with Carlton's , the
Northern Blues
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, before making his senior AFL debut in round 15, 2015. He was delisted in October 2015.
Fields is the son of
Neville Fields
Neville Fields (born 21 November 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Fields was a left footed centreman and won Essendon's most improved player awa ...
, who played 200
Victorian Football League
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games for and . Fields became noted during his time in the SANFL for his ability to kick long
torpedo punt
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s, and prior to being drafted by Carlton he had considered his options of studying and playing
American football
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