Essendon AFL champion Matthew Lloyd speaks after playing in a win with Warrnambool and District league football side Old Collegians as part of the Carlton Draft.
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00:00It was a great experience. I was 46 years of age coming out there to play and I saw pretty early what a good standard it was.
00:09So tricky conditions, it was a very tough contested game. I would have loved to have kicked more goals but I understood pretty early that it was just going to be a grind.
00:18You got to play a bit of robot.
00:21It was good. We were kicking against the wind in a howling wind in the last quarter so I just wanted to try and get a bit more involved in that last five or six minutes to try and hang on to the victory.
00:30Then it was nice to get a crumb and set up a goal in that last five minutes.
00:34And your teammates embraced you?
00:36I think I was just a boy growing up and becoming a local footballer and then to see now 20, 30 years on the impact you can have on a sporting team, community.
00:48Up to teaching yourself to be honest. You can pick one person like myself who was just a boy growing up to have an impact like this.
00:55What did you think of the crowd?
00:58I was pretty impressed. I heard the roar when I left. It would have been great to have put my foot forward but as I said I've been out of it for too long.
01:06I just found the goal a bit tough.
01:10I had a big breath in my calf in the last quarter and then the hammies have been quite tight but I've got my plan again.
01:17Just to see the boys be able to watch themselves enjoy the game and play for each other. That's the most important thing.
01:24I think so, yeah. I enjoy playing cricket and a few other things but this sport is so hard.
01:31They're 18 to 20 years old so they've got to go through a lot of training.
01:36I'm not sure, I'll probably take them a week but as I said I love the experience.