Departing West Adelaide skipper Ryan Ferguson considering offer to play under Andrew Collins in VFL
RYAN Ferguson is moving back to Victoria after six seasons, 108 games and four best and fairests at West Adelaide.
RYAN Ferguson is moving back to Victoria after six seasons, 108 games and four best and fairests at West Adelaide.
But the 32-year-old defender may not have played his last game under former Bloods mentor Andrew Collins.
Ferguson is weighing up an offer to line up for VFL club Williamstown, which signed Collins as coach earlier this month.
Collins joined the Bloods in 2008 - the same year as Ferguson - before stepping down at the end of the recent season.
If he joins Williamstown, Ferguson, a teacher, is likely to eventually move into coaching.
"Williamstown has made a pretty good offer ... which I'm considering pretty strongly," Ferguson says.
"It ticks all those boxes about having some links with teaching, a segue into coaching and still being able to have a kick around.
"It'd be a bit of the old with the completely new.
"I know what Collo's about but it's been six years since I've had anything to do with Victorian footy.
"Williamstown is the frontrunner, but I'm still keeping a few options open."
Ferguson, the Bloods' captain from 2009-13, says leaving the club will be difficult.
He is proud to have played a big part in West's rise from a wooden-spooner in 2008 to second and third-placed finishes in the past two SANFL seasons.
The Bloods also won the Foxtel Cup this year.
"It's good to be able to leave with the club in really good shape.
"It's been good to be able to be part of the building of the club.
"I considered leaving last year but it didn't feel right.
"Now it feels like the right time."