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 hear about what Lachlan Keeffe has been doing in his spare time.

Saturday
We all came into the club to watch the match against West Coast after doing a session in the gym at about 5.30pm. Maxy ran the session for all of the injured boys and then the club put on a bit of a spread and we all watched the game together. We made a good start to the game but it’s hard to know what happened after that as we fell away, so it wasn’t a great result in the end. After that, I went home where I’m living with Roundsy. Cribbo came over and him and Roundsy have been playing FIFA flat out lately. I think Cribbo's the best at it. I don't play, but I get frustrated watching them. I still watch it and just sit back playing on my phone giving running commentary of the games.

Sunday
It was our day off. I stayed home and watched Freo beat the Kangas. It was pretty close until halfway through the third quarter when Freo kicked away with seven goals in a row, or something like that. I watch a lot of sport on TV. It’s pretty much all I watch.

I love the American sports, especially the NFL, and their season is just about to start so I’m pretty excited about that. I sort of support the Carolina Panthers, and really like Cameron Newton, their quarterback, but I just like the sport itself more than anything since I got into it in the last two years, and I even like watching the college stuff. I haven’t played any gridiron but I’d love to go and play College Football over there in America if I wasn't playing footy. Just to go to their schools would be amazing.

Their schools are massive - they get 100,000 to their College games and they’re sold out before the season even starts, so it doesn’t matter what the capacity of the ground is because it's pretty much sold out. I like to just follow the sport more than a team, although I’ve got that soft spot for the Panthers. Most of the boys got together at the club to watch the Super Bowl, so it’s something a lot of us have a fair bit of interest in.

Monday
Training time again. It was a pretty big day for me because I have to do upper body weights and leg weights. My knee's fine and I’ve had no hiccups as yet so fingers crossed it stays that way. I’ve also been able to spend a fair bit of time on the bike, too, which has been good. Mondays and Fridays are usually my two big days at the club at the moment, getting in here at 9am and leaving at about 3.30 or 4pm. It’s been a matter of conditioning my body because I can’t do the footy side of things so it’s important that I get into weights side of things and build on my strength and my body composition, and I now feel like I’m as strong as I’ve ever been.

At the moment, I usually go home and cark it on the couch. I put something on TV but nod off for an hour or so because I’m just exhausted. Roundsy is usually at home with me or at Cribbo and Joshy Thomas’ place because they live just around the corner from us, so we're down there a bit. The cooking is pretty well shared by the two of us. Roundsy’s mum was at the VFL on Saturday and she made some home cooking for us and stuck it in the freezer. She brought up a steak for us, which was great, so Roundsy cooked that for dinner. His mum does it most of the times that she comes up to Melbourne. As usual, Cribbo was over playing FIFA again in the evening!

Tuesday
On Tuesday, we went down to the Sea Baths in St Kilda for a bit of a dip. It was the first time I’ve been in the ocean since I had my knee surgery, and it was bloody cold - freezing - so I was struggling a bit. I thought it was good weather! The sun was coming out and I thought it wasn’t too bad a day to have a dip but it was that just cold.

I came back here to the club and had a few meetings with the development guys. I’ve tried to do a bit more with them since my knee to keep up to speed with the footy side of things, following the individual reviews of the younger guys to see how they go about it. I might get into it (development coaching) post footy. I’m not sure about head coaching, but the development side of things is something I’m kind of interested in. I’m doing a level two coaching course, which was originally just to build my knowledge of the game and see how other blokes go about it but working closely with Fly over last 12-13 weeks, it’s taught me that I don't mind that kind of thing.

I’ve also spent some time with Pebs for a bit and he looks after some of the bigger guys like Wittsy, Cegs and Gaulty. I might say something here and there but I mostly observe what Pebs says and the way he goes about it. At the club, I did some weights for my upper body and had lunch in the cafe before going home and crashing on the couch again.

I watched a documentary on Muhammad Ali as a part of the 30 for 30 Series on ESPN, which is full of documentaries on different sports people and sporting moments. This one was all about when Ali came out of retirement to fight Larry Holmes. He was 38-years-old and coming out of retirement and got belted. I enjoyed it. I love all the ESPN stuff. I don’t know a whole lot about him so it was good to watch. He's pretty interesting.

Growing up, I was a massive soccer person. I have been playing it since I was six and played in the midfield and in basically any position bar goal keeper. My English Premier Side is Manchester United, and I used to watch any soccer that was on, although we only really had English soccer on SBS back then, but obviously now with Foxtel you can watch so much from Europe. I’m not really into the A-League because I find it hard to watch after watching the EPL.

Roundsy hates that I watch a lot of sport. He's right into his Big Brother and he watches Friends as well. I’m not a huge wrap for Friends, but he sits there and watches Channel V and all the music channels, but I just can’t do it. I can’t talk because I basically just watch sport. ‘Caffer loves Seinfeld, and when I was living with him he got me hooked.

When the Olympics were on, Foxtel was so good for choosing what you want to watch, and I love it when the Aussies are doing well. I like swimming, even though we weren't crash hot. I used to play a bit of handball back at school where I was a goalkeeper, and if the ball hit you, you’d cop three giant stings. When it got to the end of the Olympics I thought I should have taken more advantage of having it on. It’s like the Tour De France when it finishes, you just regret not watching more of it. It’d be great to be in the Olympics, but I would rather win in a team sport. That’s where its at for me.

That night, I went around to Cribbo and Josh’s again and Fas and Youngy were around. We were just chewing the fat, basically. Blairy had me and Roundsy and Tristan Francis over at his new place for dinner in the evening. He used to live with Tricker but moved out with mate from back home in Wonthaggi. For dinner we had some homemade tuna meat patties and steak, which was pretty good. Tristen now works for Bally’s old man with Shock Doctor Australia and is playing at Port Melbourne but he’s going to be out for about 12 months. He's always injured. I was telling him he's not meant for footy. He’s had hip surgery, groins, stress fractures, the lot.

Seeing blokes come and go this time of year makes you think of who has gone from my early years at the club. Guys from my first year like Ryan Lonie, Paul Licuria, Brodie Holland, Shane Wakelin and Toby Thoolen, who I lived with in my fist year.

There’s J-Mac, Brad Dick, guys like Ryan Cook who was a ripper bloke, Stanners who’s now at Gold Coast, Jaxson Barham…it was a close group because we were all roughly the same age group and were all drafted at same time around. There was also Sammy Iles who left at the end of my first year.

Me, Roundsy, Cribbo, Josh, Youngy and Benny Sinclair all stick together. In my first year in the VFL (in 2008), Nudge Carmody was our captain. I came in at the same time as J-Mac, Toby and Barham and it was Woody’s first year at the club after coming down from Brisbane.

Justin Crow won the best and fairest with Brent Macaffer who kicked eight against Werribee. I remember thinking it was real impressive. There was also the day came when Dicky kicked five in the first half against Casey and then came into the AFL and kicked another four. That was just so impressive, one of the most memorable performances I’ve seen.

Even in the premiership year, Leigh Brown played the first half of the year in the VFL. I remember in one of the first games I played I was at full back and Nathan Thompson was playing on me. I went back with the flight with Leigh Brown coming the other way (when he was playing for Werribee while still with North Melbourne) and he cleaned me up.

My first game was down at Geelong and it was raining so heavily, and I was up against Shane Mumford and Trent West in the ruck. Crowy won the game for us with the best tackle I’ve ever seen. He saw a bloke run into an open goal and the bloke didn't get up. He was cut in half. Then Crowy capped it off when he took off with a rebound 50. Dawesy kicked heaps to help us get over the line.

Once I got home, I watched some cricket - the first time we won over there in the United Arab Emirates. Glenn Maxwell was in with George Bailey and hit about 40 off 30 balls. He’s really got that bit of x-factor. He’s very explosive with the bat.

Wednesday
I got touched up again with the weights before I did a bit of core and physio work so I was stuffed by the afternoon. I went around to Cribbo’s in the afternoon and kicked back with him, Roundsy and Josh, as well as Tom Bell who is a Queensland boy now playing for Carlton. That night, we went to Arcadia for $12 steaks with the same guys plus Painey who goes with his school mates.

Thursday
Thursday was my day off. I haven't had Thursdays off for a while so it was good to have a bit of a sleep in and then head to do some shopping along Chapel Street. That night we all went out with Cribbo and Shae, who won’t be back at the club next year to have some dinner with them.