Bríd Stack: 'The quick turnaround means it’s feasible to squeeze in another season. Will I be back? I don’t know.'

Once you decide to retire, you're a long time retired. The restructuring of the AFLW season means it's perhaps feasible to go for one more rodeo

Getting to grips with it: Brí­d Stack of the Giants and Anne Hatchard of the Crows compete for possession at Henson Park last month. Pic: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

At the end of our last match of the season against Geelong, Cárthach dropped Ógie into my arms for us to sing our team song one last time in our circle. It was a wonderful moment. Nearly two weeks on, the tune is still in my little boy’s head — on Monday night, I heard him trying to sing it on his own around the apartment.

Sitting in the dressing room after the Geelong game, I found myself pensive when I started to process the last few months, and the journey undertaken. I had played all ten games. To be honest, I wasn’t sure if my body would hold up under the rigorous schedule. There were always question marks coming back a year older. Would I avoid injury? Would I be selected? Would I be up to the required standard in my first season? I know now that I was.