Daniel Gorringe

Daniel Gorringe (born 2 June 1992) is an Australian media personality and former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Gold Coast and Carlton.

Daniel Gorringe
Personal information
Date of birth (1992-06-02) 2 June 1992
Place of birth Adelaide, South Australia
Original team(s) Norwood (SANFL)
Draft No. 10, 2010 national draft
Height 200 cm (6 ft 7 in)
Weight 97 kg (214 lb)
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
2011–2015 Gold Coast 22 0(7)
2016–2017 Carlton 04 0(4)
Total 26 (11)
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

After being drafted from the Norwood Football Club, he made his Australian Football League debut for Gold Coast in 2011 and played 22 games in his five seasons with the Suns, before being delisted and subsequently signed by Carlton, where he played four games in 2016.

Gorringe appeared in Channel 7's Big Brother Australia 2020 reboot where he is placed third in the finale.[1]

Early life

Gorringe was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia where he attended Torrens Valley Christian School throughout his upbringing.[2] He began playing Australian rules football for the Tea Tree Gully Football Club at the age of 13 and later switched to the Norwood Football Club to play top level SANFL football. He played for Norwood's senior side for most of his 2010 season and averaged 21 hit-outs per game for the South Australian state team in the 2010 AFL Under 18 Championships. As a result, he was named as the starting ruckman in the 2010 Under-18 All-Australian team.[3] He was also invited to participate in the 2010 AFL draft combine where he ranked first in physical testing amongst other ruck draft prospects in his age group.[4] A month later, Gold Coast would draft Gorringe with pick 10 in the 2010 national draft.[5]

AFL career

Gold Coast (2011–2015)

Gorringe made his AFL debut against the Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium in round 3, 2011 where he managed a goal[6] and took a spectacular mark that was not awarded by the umpires.[7] Two weeks later he played in Gold Coast's historic first ever AFL win by three points against Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium.[8] He faced numerous injuries to his ankle and hamstring in 2011 and only managed to play seven games in his first AFL season.[9] His injury problems continued in 2012 when he injured his achilles, which took him out for almost the whole season.[10] In 2013 he managed to play nine AFL games for Gold Coast as a useful ruckman and key forward[11] which earned him a two-year contract extension to the end of 2015.[12]

In 2014 Gorringe suffered another achilles injury which kept him on the sidelines for most of the season. Late in 2014 he recovered to play three AFL games, but a knee injury ended his season prematurely.[13] At the conclusion of the 2014 season Gorringe attempted to secure a trade to Port Adelaide, but when Essendon ruckman Patrick Ryder became available to Port Adelaide he was left to finish out his contract at Gold Coast.[14] Gorringe later revealed his decision to give everyone at the Suns "an absolute serve on the way out" when it appeared he had secured a trade to Port Adelaide and had to apologise to the staff at the club when the trade fell through and he returned for their 2015 season.[15] Injuries continued to wreak havoc on his career in 2015 and poor form meant he was only able to play two AFL games. Towards the end of the season his form for Gold Coast's reserves team started to improve and he explored his options to move to another club.[16] He was delisted by the Gold Coast in October 2015[17] and in November, he was recruited by Carlton as a delisted free agent.[18]

Carlton (2016–2017)

Gorringe got his first opportunity to play an AFL game for Carlton when Carlton's primary ruckman Matthew Kreuzer was injured.[19] He played his first game for Carlton against North Melbourne, matching up against one of the AFL's best ruckmen in Todd Goldstein. He was dominated by Goldstein throughout the match with the hitout discrepancy totalling 38 and Carlton losing the affair by 67 points.[20] He played three more AFL games before a hip injury ended his season.[21] He faced yet another setback in the 2017 pre-season when he re-injured his achilles.[22] At the conclusion of the 2017 season, Gorringe decided to retire from football, having played just 26 games across seven seasons as an AFL player.[23]

Statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of the 2017 season[24]

Legend
 G  Goals  B  Behinds  K  Kicks  H  Handballs  D  Disposals  M  Marks  T  Tackles  H/O  Hit-outs
Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game)
G B K H D M T H/O G B K H D M T H/O
2011 Gold Coast 4772125345996260.30.13.64.98.41.30.93.7
2012 Gold Coast 471001782310.00.01.07.08.02.03.01.0
2013 Gold Coast 15930466010624131020.30.05.16.711.82.71.411.3
2014 Gold Coast 1531118163445540.30.36.05.311.31.31.718.0
2015 Gold Coast 15210611173760.50.03.05.58.51.53.53.0
2016 Carlton 37443272552178361.00.86.86.313.04.32.09.0
2017 Carlton 370
Career 26 11 5 123 153 276 59 42 225 0.4 0.2 4.7 5.9 10.6 2.3 1.6 8.7

Media career

AFL Memories

In late July 2019, Gorringe began posting a series of humorous memories of his footballing career to social media, gaining a large audience among football fans. The stories included not kicking an open goal as he was instructed not to kick,[25] being verbally sacked in the opening rounds of his final season with Gold Coast and agreeing to no exit meeting and being allowed to "just continue drinking beers",[26] finding out he had been dropped by the AFL app on multiple occasions,[27] retiring before being delisted because "retirement looks better next to my name in the papers and on the internet",[28] abusing Gold Coast staff after believing he was being traded only for no such trade to take place,[29] and faking a hamstring injury to avoid embarrassment after gastro caused him to defecate during a game.[30] The Twitter account gained Gorringe the most attention arguably of his career, with his tweets shared on multiple media outlets, and Gorringe being interviewed on Triple M about his stories.[31] Gorringe received a writing role with Sportsbet after his new found fame.[32]

Big Brother

Gorringe appeared in Channel 7's Big Brother Australia 2020.[33] He finished the show in third place.

References
  1. "Big Brother Australia: Daniel Gorringe confirmed as new housemate". 7news.com.au. 7 May 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  2. Homfray, Reece (27 August 2010). "Young Redlegs standing tall". The Advertiser. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  3. Turner, Matt (30 July 2011). "Gorringe tipped for AFL action". The Messenger. Archived from the original on 30 December 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
  4. "Tom Hickey signed by Gold Coast". AFL Queensland. 28 October 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  5. AFL Record Season Guide 2011. AFL Media. 2011. p. 166. ISSN 1839-8383.
  6. Smart, Nick (11 April 2011), "Close but no cigar for Suns teen", The Gold Coast Bulletin
  7. "Dogs take down the GC SUNS". goldcoastfc.com.au. 9 April 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  8. "Remember when... the Suns' first win". aflplayers.com.au. 24 August 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  9. AFL Record Season Guide 2012. AFL Media. 2012. p. 167. ISSN 1839-8383.
  10. AFL Record Season Guide 2013. AFL Media. 2013. p. 165. ISSN 1839-8383.
  11. AFL Record Season Guide 2014. AFL Media. 2014. p. 170. ISSN 1839-8383.
  12. "Port need to do some clever recruiting". theroar.com.au. The Roar. 31 August 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  13. AFL Record Season Guide 2015. AFL Media. 2015. p. 167. ISSN 1839-8383.
  14. Edmund, Sam (16 October 2014). "Daniel Gorringe lashes out after Gold Coast and Port Adelaide fail to strike deal". Herald Sun. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  15. "The Hilarious Story Behind Daniel Gorringe's Failed Trade To Port Adelaide In 2014". Triple M. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  16. Beveridge, Riley (15 September 2015). "AFL Market Watch: Daniel Gorringe to leave Gold Coast, Aaron Hall in demand, Mitch Brown in form". foxsports.com.au. Fox Sports. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  17. "Three delisted ahead of List Lodgement deadline". GoldCoastFC.com.au. Bigpond. 29 October 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  18. "Blues boost ruck stocks with delisted free agent Gorringe". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. 9 November 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
  19. "Weitering ready to go, Gorringe for Blue debut". AFL.com.au. Australian Football League. 20 May 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  20. King, Travis (21 May 2016). "Five talking points: North Melbourne v Carlton". AFL.com.au. Australian Football League. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  21. AFL Record Season Guide 2017. AFL Media. 2017. p. 72. ISSN 1839-8383.
  22. Schmook, Nathan (25 February 2017). "Achilles injury could sideline big Blue". AFL.com.au. Australian Football League. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  23. Navaratnam, Dinny (31 August 2017). "Blues cut two more as tall pair retire". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  24. "AFL Tables - Daniel Gorringe - Stats - Statistics". afltables.com.
  25. "Tweet". twitter.com. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  26. "Tweet". twitter.com. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  27. "Tweet". twitter.com. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  28. "Tweet". twitter.com. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  29. "Tweet". twitter.com. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  30. "Tweet". twitter.com. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  31. "The Hilarious Story Behind Daniel Gorringe's Failed Trade To Port Adelaide In 2014". Triple M.
  32. "Daniel Gorringe's Diaries: Bye Week". 3 September 2019.
  33. "Big Brother: Second contestant revealed and prize winnings announced". news.com.au. 7 May 2020. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
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