Melbourne recruit Chris Dawes discusses life after the Magpies
CHRIS Dawes is embracing his new life at Melbourne, but admits he'll miss plenty of his Collingwood teammates.
CHRIS Dawes is embracing his new life at Melbourne, but admits he'll miss plenty of his Collingwood teammates.
"Especially given that 18 of them are premiership teammates," Dawes said.
"But I suppose the nice thing is at least I did achieve that (a flag ) there so I don't have that sense of unfinished business quite so much. With those blokes I played in a flag with, there's a handful I will remain close friends with."
Dawes said he was enjoying the youthful Demons.
"I've just been riding that wave of excitement really," Dawes said.
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"When you get to a new club, you need to earn the respect of your teammates as quickly as possible and I've been trying to do that as best I can."
Dawes played famous golf course Pebble Beach in California during his holidays, a gift from his partner, Paige, and yesterday teed off in Portsea.
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