Please find below the entire Q&A that appeared in The Sunday Mail.
Let's cut to the chase. Is 2014 your last season?
I honestly haven't decided. I'm just playing it year by year but there's a couple of prerequisites. You have to stay on the field and you've still got to perform to a high enough level that satisfies the club and yourself.
When you do retire, will you get into the media side of things or pursue a coaching career?
More media I reckon for a while. I'd like to take a step back from the day-to-day operations of a footy club but I've got an interest in helping younger guys out, even it's just young key forwards.
Any chance of playing some country footy?
Maybe the Supers (over 35s) ... maybe South Warrnambool could fly me down for a few games. To be honest, I reckon when my days in the AFL are done, my days of any footy will be done.
You were a more than handy left-arm bowler in your youth. How far could you have gone in cricket?
Sometimes you wonder if you applied myself to cricket like I did with footy what would have happened. But I reckon it would have been unlikely I would have made it. I would have loved to have opened the bowling at the MCG on Boxing Day though.
Tell us about the time you met Wasim Akram.
He was a real hero of mine. I remember the 1992 World Cup final when he cleaned up the Poms. I met him at the Gabba once and I was a bit overawed. He was a really nice fella. I told him he had to get into the AFL.
On to boxing. You were part of Vic Darchinyan entourage at a world title fight in Las Vegas while you were on your honeymoon?
It was amazing. I carried the Australian flag in. He was the first person to ever unify the division. It was an unbelievable experience. I didn't tell (wife) Kylie I was carrying the flag. She gave me a strange look when I walked past her.
But Mike Tyson brushed you recently?
We were supposed do an interview for Nova Radio but a TV reporter gut under his skin in the press conference prior and we missed out. Iron Mike wasn't happy. I introduced myself and he said “Hi Jon”, so at least he knows my name.
How has being a parent changed you? When you were a young bloke you listened to AC/DC before games but now you probably can't get the Wiggles out of your head?
I love being a Dad. We've got a third on the way too. Life slows down a little. I'm not the party boy I used to be and I can't have the boys around to the house like we used to. But I wouldn't change it for the world. You still hurt like hell after a loss but it does give you a different perspective.
I understand you are the disciplinarian in the house but I also understand that both your kids, Olivia and Jack, push the boundaries. That does make them the bravest kids in Queensland?
My little girl said to me yesterday: “Daddy, I love you very much but why do you swear so much?” I said “It's because of you darlin.” Jack is only 12 months old but he is climbing on everything. I expect him to be on the roof soon.
How is Jack shaping as a father-son recruit for Brisbane in 2031?
He'd want to toughen up. He's a Mummy's boy at the moment. At this rate, he'll be playing golf or tennis.
