One of our favourite players is finally making his return to Essendon VFL this week. We take a look back at how he has been spending his nine months out of the game.

The last time Heath Hocking played was in the elimination final against North Melbourne in 2014. 

Since then, the veteran midfielder has undergone twin groin surgeries in an attempt to alleviate much of the discomfort that he played with throughout the season. 

To keep himself active, Hocking signed himself up for Twitter as a way to both document his return to football as well as chat to fans.

We had a look at some of Buddha's tweets to see exactly what he has been up to and discovered some familar themes. 

The break down (from what we saw):

ThemeTweets%
Food2333.8%
Sport68.5%
Essendon1115.8%
Self-Promotion45.8%
Shameless Plug710.1%
Other1826%
TOTAL69100%

 

Key Moments: 

1. His first tweet

 

2. When he first met Adrian Richardson (better known as the tastysausage)

3. That time he met his mate Tony.

 

4. That time he wanted to become a Pokemon master

5. That time he got excited about kitchen storage

6. That time he made bread

a lot of bread

7. That time he decided to go a month without coffee

8. His love for smoking meat

9. #Skinnies

10. When he was funny (and probably right)

 


But this was probably the best of them all.