IF Jobe Watson is to return to Essendon next season the Bombers might need to coax him out of his new job as a barista in New York.

The Bombers skipper took a course in coffee-making in Melbourne recently and took a shining to the craft before deciding that’s how he wanted to spend some of his time away from the game while serving his drugs suspension.

media_camera Coffee anyone? How we imagine Jobe Watson would serve a flat white.

Essendon great and Watson’s father, Tim Watson, confirmed on Friday morning his son has jetted to New York and is on the lookout for a job.

“He did a bit of a coffee-type course before he left,” he said on SEN.

“I don’t know that he’s actually started working anywhere as a barista, no, I don’t know that.

“He did (start making them at home). He started to learn at home and then he had an interest in it so he thought he’d do a bit more with it at a place around the corner, so he started to go there and learn the art and craft of being a barista. And it’s a very fine art and craft that you need to learn, too.”

Stand-in Bombers skipper Brendon Goddard said his banned teammate needs to get a working visa.

“He thought it’d be a good idea to go over there and experience a bit of New York life but also get involved in a bit of their culture — or the Australian culture — and be a barista,” Goddard said on The Footy Show on Thursday night.

“He went out of his way to do a barista course.

“(He’s working) for free, too, I think. That’s his intention so he’s got to get over there and get a working visa but he’s gone over there with the intention to make coffees.”

Watson met with Essendon chiefs before heading overseas, with chief executive Xavier Campbell and list manager Adrian Dodoro confident he will return next year.

The supplements saga has taken an enormous emotional toll on the skipper and coach John Worsfold said this week if Watson does return, he will need to be committed with his “full heart and soul.”

Teammate Adam Cooney believes Watson, who will be 32 when the 2017 season gets underway, will play again.

“Yes, he will but he’s in New York at the moment making coffees so he might stay for that latte lifestyle,” he told Nova100.

Watson is one of two remaining high-profile and key signings for Essendon of the banned 12 still on the club’s list, with Michael Hurley yet to commit his future to the club after serving the 12-month ban.

Dyson Heppell, Cale Hooker, David Myers, Travis Colyer and Heath Hocking have committed, while ruckman Tom Bellchambers is expected to return.