Adelaide forward Josh Jenkins has revealed just how nervous he was on the day of the 2017 Toyota AFL Grand Final.

Jenkins had seven disposals and went goalless in the game and explained just how badly the day went for him.

“I physically couldn’t move. The way Grand Final day is structured you do your on-ground warm up and it’s so much earlier to account for the entertainment and I just couldn’t pass the time from the warm up to when we ran out to play,” Jenkins told SEN’s Whateley.

“I remember trying all sorts of things, I tried to lay on the bed and almost fall asleep and I just could not put my boots on and I could not pass the time.

“It was probably only an extra 20 or 30 minutes, but it was just incredible and that whole time, you’re in fifth gear going flat out with the hand break on.

“You’re just burning up all your energy and that was me and I remember running out and the game starting and the first contest I ran to I just felt oh my god, I feel like I’ve already run a marathon.

“I literally, physically couldn’t get from contest to contest and it showed obviously in my performance and evidently some of my teammates felt the same way.”

Jenkins said as the match went on, he could feel it slipping away from him and the Crows.

“At (the 20 minute mark of the first quarter) I’m thinking, my god, I can’t move here. I might’ve had one touch and I just can’t run around the ground,” he said.

“I’m really worried at that point and then as Richmond begins to charge in the second quarter, they’re starting to get on top and everyone can feel that and you know your energy is not improving so immediately you start to think, this is not how it’s supposed to be.”

“I can’t remember the actual siren going when we lost. I don’t even know where I was at.

“Sitting there and listening to Richmond get their medals, I don’t have any animosity towards them, they deserved to win.”