West Coast speedster Jack Petruccelle doesn’t see himself returning to Victoria despite being out of contract at the end of the season.

AFL clubs cannot negotiate or sign players during the season’s postponement, leaving out-of-contract players like Petruccelle in limbo regarding their future beyond 2020.

West Coast have 21 players un-contracted beyond the year, including stalwarts Josh Kennedy, Shannon Hurn, Lewis Jetta and Will Schofield as well as Jake Waterman, Liam Ryan and Nathan Vardy.

Petruccelle, 21, considers WA home after almost three years at the Eagles and is arguably one of the club’s priority signings after a breakout season last year when kicked 21 goals in 20 games.

The Victorian stayed in Perth during isolation and admitted it was difficult early to make the transition across the Nullarbor, but he was now comfortable in his adopted State.

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“Early days in my first year I was a bit, I wouldn’t say homesick, but I guess the normal thing that kids move away from their parents are feeling,” Petruccelle told SportFM.

“Missing the family and the friends more than anything, but in my second year and this year I’ve made it a home here. You make friends here, got a girlfriend here.

“And all the boys, you get to know them more and more, it’s your family and your home here. I love it here and I don’t see myself going back soon.”

Camera Icon Jack Petruccelle is one of the club’s brigtest young prospects. Credit: Daniel Wilkins / The Sunday Times

Petruccelle was almost lost to football, with the forward admitting basketball was his number one sport until he was in his mid-teens.

Having been a part of the AIS Academy and playing in national championships, Petruccelle was hoping for a hoops career before turning to football, a decision he wishes he had made earlier.

“Football was never the number one for me, basketball was always number one,” he said.

“Looking back now I think I was pretty silly.

“The pathway in footy in Australia is just so much better.

“I think it was a very silly decision by myself, taking basketball as far as I did just because the pathways for basketball is so much harder and I am probably a bit undersized for basketball.

“I did love basketball and I love playing basketball, but I just wish I played footy throughout and I chose the footy pathway when I was 15, 16 rather than putting it on the back seat for a bit.”

Petruccelle acknowledged the training they were doing now was not ideal, but was confident it would keep the Eagles fit for a return to the club in the coming months.

“We’ve got pretty professional programs in place,” he said.

“Obviously it hurts not having a game to keep us fit, but I think these programs are put in place to keep us accountable and keep the legs ticking over.”