FREMANTLE champion Nat Fyfe has revealed he finds watching football boring.

The Brownlow Medallist, who will appear on the second episode of BOB at 8.30 on Fox Footy on Tuesday night, would rather analyse stoppage structures than sit back on the couch and enjoy a game.

“I find it quite boring,” Fyfe said to Bob Murphy over a piece of toast and a cup of tea in his Perth home.

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“It’s too long. I’d rather watch on Foxtel on mute and pause and rewind stoppages and different intricacies. I’d look for stuff and little signs of what players are doing.

When Murphy scoffed at stoppages as a form of entertainment, Fremantle’s talismanic captain stuck to his guns.

“That’s where the game is won and lost,” he concluded.

Fyfe’s interview with Murphy branches out beyond football, touching on his childhood listening to talkback radio and the meaning of his existence as a footballer.

“We are not saving the world,” he declares at one point.

The 26 year-old concedes he would arrive at the club in a “grumpy” mood up most mornings up until a few seasons ago.

Current Sydney Swans assistant Brett Kirk, who began his coaching journey under Ross Lyon at the Dockers, sought to give Fyfe a morning routine which would prove to be the secret catalyst behind his 2015 Brownlow Medal winning season.

Nat Fyfe after winning the 2015 Brownlow Medal. Source: News Corp Australia

As a leader and star player, Kirk urged Fyfe to achieve something before each day began.

“It started a couple of years ago as a three-week trial because I wasn’t a morning person,” Fyfe told Murphy.

“I’d roll into footy at 8am with bed hair, grumpy and not acknowledge anyone for an hour until I found my rhythm.

“Brett Kirk was the one that made a bit aware of it. You have to neutralise your energy constantly if you want to be a leader around this joint.

“Kirk was like a big human mirror getting me to look back at myself.”

The solution was simple. Fyfe would swim in freezing cold water every morning of the working week.

“The challenge was (initially) three weeks of 6am beach sessions,” he said.

“You can look at it from lots of different angles. Some people that start the day with a cold shower or the beach, say that you achieve something.

“The first thing that you do in the day is an achievement so that the rest comes easy. There are elements of that.

Nat Fyfe after the Dockers’ 2013 AFL Grand Final loss. Source: News Limited

Murphy was quick to remark Fyfe was delving into the deep philosophical world of existentialism, but the on-baller continued.

“It’s what I do and it’s so ritualised in what I do, that without it, I can lose some guidance in my day,” he said.

“What’s the first thing I do if I don’t do that?

“It’s a tough place to walk into some mornings, particularly as an introvert into the robustness of a footy club where people are ready to chirp you, come at you or pat you on the back or ask you to do something. If you’re not ready for that it can be hard work.

“I’m an introvert but can be an augmented extrovert if I have to be.”

Among a variety of talking points, Fyfe joked about an on-field sledge he had recently received.

“A player has gone ‘mate, stop being such an individual’,” he said.

“I chuckled to myself and said that’s ‘one of the great compliments you could ever give me.’

BOB airs at 8.30pm on Fox Footy on Tuesday night. It is the second of nine episodes. Tex Perkins is next week’s guest.

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