Determined not to slip through the cracks of a young and improving side, Jack Watts has gone the extra mile to catch the eye of Melbourne’s coaching staff today, turning up to training with snow-white hair.

“Let’s see these pricks ignore me now,” he was heard saying as he ran out onto the track.

Watts was dropped from the squad to face the Western Bulldogs in the first outing of the preseason. Determined to get back up off the canvas, the emerging midfielder immediately vowed to put himself on the radar of Simon Goodwin and drove to Chemist Warehouse to acquire some industrial-grade hydrogen peroxide.

Following a thick application of the toxic chemical agent, Watts found himself suffering third-degree burns on the scalp but with a hairstyle to die for.

“He’s looking good I’ll give him that,” Goodwin commented at the close of training. “Not good enough to get a game or anything, but he’s moving in the right direction.”