Matthew Wade

against Geelong for Footscray, but we kept him out for about a month just to make sure he's okay.

So if there's any signs that Tom needs a bit longer, I'm sure our medical crew won't let him play, but he seems to be okay.

Yeah, but he hasn't been to a panel.

Yeah, pretty good.

We'll give him right up until the death.

I mean, we've had two six-day turnarounds.

This is another shorter one, six-day.

There's a couple of boys who are a little bit sore.

And ultimately, they'll play if there's no risk that they'll...

Yeah, it's grown legs, this whole footy thing, but I'm...

No, it's been a lot of fun.

I've enjoyed it so far.

So something that I always wanted to do coming to the back end of cricket and yeah, I'm really enjoying just getting back to local footy and having a bit of fun with my mates.

Yeah, I played all my juniors for Lauderdale and then obviously cricket took over at 18 years of age and then

Never really thought about putting the boots on until about a month ago.

I went down and did some training down there just to see how my body would feel, to be honest, and get a bit of fitness in.

And still felt half decent, to be honest, Gerard.

And, yeah, a few things came about playing a game in the twos.

And, yeah, next minute I played six quarters and I'm playing in the ones, which is a bit ridiculous in itself.

But it was great fun.