'The humidity is what gets you. It is just horrible': Deividas Uosis relishing delayed AFL education 

Deividas Uosis at the AFL Combine in UCD in December 2019. The pandemic delayed the start of his AFL career but the Kerryman is now preparing for the start of the new season at the Brisbane Lions. Picture: Laszlo Geczo

For his first training session with the Brisbane Lions, Deividas Uosis was told to start running. Within minutes, he found himself in a world of pain.

It was Queensland in mid-January and the heat was suffocating. The Kerryman just arrived and had yet to learn all of the sport’s fundamentals, so instead of games-based training sessions, it was distance runs in the northeast of Australia.