Classy midfielder Mat Suckling has returned to The Parade. Picture: Stephen Laffer Source: News Limited
LAST August Mat Suckling phoned Norwood coach Ben Warren to tell him that after a year away from the club he wouldn't be coming back in 2015.
Suckling played in Norwood's 2012 and 2013 premierships but decided to return to Victoria to work for his family's residential construction business.
He barely played footy with Collingwood's VFL side thanks to a torn hamstring — which he took into the 2013 Grand Final — but footy played second fiddle to an 80-hour working week anyway which included manning display homes.
"I didn't really want to leave (Norwood) in the first place, but it was something I felt I had to do," Suckling, 26, said. "With Dugga (Warren) coaching and coming on board, him and I got along well and we maintained that relationship throughout last year.
"I never shut the door but I never opened it either, work was just too busy.
"And I remember a phone conversation with Dug just before finals and I said 'look, I'm probably not coming back, we're building a new display home in Melton and they need to be manned on top of the extra administration'. I just didn't think it was possible."
But then Norwood made the Grand Final and Suckling flew over from Melbourne to watch it and what was meant to be a fly-in, fly-out visit became a three-day party that convinced him to come back.
"Seeing them get it done against Port Adelaide, 38,000 people at Adelaide Oval, I stayed for a couple of days and went to mad Monday," Suckling said. "And I sat down with Dug and Rossy and they said 'what are your thoughts?' and I said 'I want to come back'."
The hard-nosed inside midfielder says it's hard to describe what has made Norwood such a place that he just couldn't resist coming back to.
"The last three years we've had 40 blokes every year go on the footy trip," Suckling said.
"If you ever want a gauge on whether players are getting along — because there are cliques at footy clubs ... there's no clique here, you can go into our changeroom and anyone feels welcome."
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