Personal Life
Thomas co-owned with some friends a racehorse named Royal Riff Raff, which was sponsored by the Royal Hotel in Drouin. It also won the Drouin Cup on Boxing Day 2007. After selling the horse he bought a horse called Village Slickers.
He was named fifth sexiest footballer of 2008 in the Herald Sun Footy Fans Survey 2008 .
Thomas is a recreational surfer. While on a surfing trip with friends at Cape Paterson near Inverloch, Victoria, he saw a shark fin about 15 metres away from his surf board. He said "I was absolutely shitting myself." Upon seeing the shark he left the water very quickly, swimming 85 metres to the shore.
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