Essendon captain Matthew Lloyd has got right into the swing of fatherhood and Bomber rookie Heath Hocking can testify to that fact. The pair roomed together on Essendon’s recent trip north and Hocking is not a particularly good sleeper.

Hocking was tossing and turning as his usual routine when he suddenly felt an arm on him and a pat on the back. He looked up to see a sleep walking Lloyd by his bed. ""What are you doing?"" Hocking asked. ""I’m putting my baby to sleep,"" Lloyd said before sleep walking back to his own bed.

The next morning Lloyd had a vague recollection of what had happened before Hocking confirmed his sleep-walking ways. Hocking apparently made it very clear to Lloyd the following night that he most certainly was not his ‘baby’ and that he was capable of getting back to sleep without the skipper's assistance.