In a new feature on collingwoodfc.com.au, supporters will recap a player's weekly schedule in 'A week in the life'.

This week we learn more about the life of Alex Fasolo.

Sunday - Collingwood defeated St Kilda by six-points at the MCG on Saturday night.
My parents (Bev and Joe) were over for the weekend so on Sunday morning I went to our recovery session and then went and had brekkie with mum and dad. We went to this little café around the corner from my house and just chilled out. They come over once every four or six weeks and see me when they can. Lewie, my brother, plays for East Fremantle in the WAFL. Whenever East Freo has a bye he comes over to watch me. He’s two years older than me and he’s a chance to get drafted. You never know. I’m always in Derek Hine’s ear about it. He was always close when he was younger and he’s played a bit of state footy.
 
Monday
We had a light training session at the club, and it was a good chance to go over the tape with good old Flybags (Head of Development, Craig McRae) before having a review with Bucks about the game. I spent most of the day at the club until later in the afternoon when I went and hung out with the South Yarra boys.
 
There are a few of us fellas who live just around the corner from the club like Joshy Thomas and Paul Cribbin and I like to hang out with them. We went and had a coffee on Chapel Street. For dinner I had take away Hunky Dory, the seafood joint on Chapel Street with my sister, Anna. She’s older than me and came over from Western Australia in February. She’s working for the Lighthouse Foundation that works with homeless youth. She plays the role of a mother figure at a house in Richmond where she works three or four nights a week and just looks after three of the kids who have been pulled off the streets, helping to rebuild their lives slowly. I pop around there a bit. The kids always love to see me so I go around and have dinner with them once a week.
 
I went around there on Tuesday night. I just talk about heaps of stuff, there are two girls and one bloke so I go there and have a chat about footy. They’re pretty cool kids.
 
On Monday night I didn’t get up to much. I got home and it was bed time. I watched a bit of the Olympics. Handball’s not a bad game. I watched a bit of that. I also used to play a bit of water polo at school where it was competitive but I never took it as seriously as a few boys did.
 
Tuesday
We went to the club for our divisional meeting to talk about the weekend, going over what we did right and what we can improve on where there was some pretty good input from Christopher Dawes. I did some touch on the sprung floor and then all of the boys (me, Keeffey, Roundsy, Joshy, Cribbo and Nath Brown) all went to a restaurant on Chapel Street for lunch. I had a great seafood linguini pasta. Butters (David Buttifant, Sport Science Director) won’t mind that. I went around to the house my sister works at and just hung out with the kids and had dinner there where Anna cooked some kind of potato bake, which was nice. I usually get home from there at about 9:30pm but got home at 8:30pm in time for Geordie Shore, which gave me a good laugh.
 
Wednesday
I woke up and went in for my main session at the club where we did full training and then I smashed out some weights with Butters who took me on a bit of a circuit one-on-one where he gave me a touch up. I spent most of the day at the club and then had a lady friend’s birthday and I took her out for dinner around Chapel Street, which is my home ground.  I had a steak, medium rare, with a bit of mushroom sauce. It’s an all time great.
 
Thursday
Thursday was our day off so I went around the corner to have brekkie by myself where I went over the latest news to see what’s going on in the world. I then went into SEN (a Melbourne radio station that covers sport exclusively) where I’m doing my work placement. I read some news, recorded myself reading some news, helped the producer, took a few phone calls and did the ‘Fas Files’ before I went and had lunch with my sister.
 
At SEN, I work with Daniel Harford and the producer. Harf’s great, he’s radio magic. He’s taught me how to make good coffee because if you’re going to start off around the studio you’ve got to make good coffee for all the big dogs! While I’m on there on Thursdays they get Glenn Luff from Champion Data to come in and talk Dream Team, and then Terry Wallace comes in after me to do the Hour of Power which is always a bit of fun.
 
People are probably wondering about the Fas Files. Well, I got offered this work placement to see how a certain part of the media industry works, and I just have a distinct knack for talking a lot of rubbish so the producer thought it would be a good idea to get on for five or six minutes each week to talk a bit of rubbish. I think of a topic I want to go with before I go in and Harf and I bounce a random idea off each other and then we talk about it for a few minutes. Harf has a bit of fun with the guys who SMS in as well.
 
The media option hadn’t really come into my mind until I started playing footy. Before that, I was interested in the social sciences. I’m a people’s person. If I hadn’t been drafted I’d probably have gone to university and have started a double degree in economics and commerce, or maybe I’d have done psychology and looked into my other options.
 
I’m a big fan of the way Garry Lyon operates in the media and, although he’s not as high profile, Nathan Brown, who does The Sunday Footy Show and Triple M. I think he is very good at what he does. Calling a match would be an option I’d look at; it’d be really good. Of the commentators, I love your Dennis’ and your Bruces’ and I don’t mind a bit of BT when he gets excited. Huddo’s also very good at what he does.
 
Friday
We’ve got training in the morning and then we’ll fly out in the afternoon. I’ll probably room by myself, and I’ve got a mate in Sydney who I’ll probably catch up with while I’m up there.