Thursfield was born in Oxford in England, moving to Australia at age 3.
He impressed straight away by keeping the Swans forward to 1 goal, as the Tigers upset Sydney by a solitary point.
Thursfield retired at the end of the 2011 season, having played ten senior matches for the year.
He stated that, although he was "proud to have played the game at the highest level over the past seven seasons", there were "some other avenues in [his] life" that he was "keen to pursue".
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1980s is a stub.