PORT ADELAIDE captain Tom Jonas has let slip some big news about his future.
The resolute defender and his wife Millie are expecting their first child.
The Port skipper has done well to keep the news under wraps with the due date is just a couple of months away.
That was until he was discussing the experience of being in the AFL’s Queensland hub during a radio interview on FIVEaa on Tuesday night.
“I’m about to have my first child so I saw it as a last opportunity to get away with the boys and play some FIFA and golf and enjoy their company,” Jonas said.
“I think a few others were the same, I’m not sure if you were up there for a month how you’d go but two or three weeks is a perfect time and it’s lovely weather up there at the moment.”
The revelation caught the program’s hosts Stephen Rowe and Mark Bickley off guard, who wondered whether there would be a potential father-son or father-daughter for Port Adelaide down the track.
Jonas told them he didn’t know the sex of the child, but he had an idea.
“I kept (the pregnancy) on the low down,” Jonas explained.
“We’re due mid-September.
“I’m not sure (of the sex) but footballers usually have little girls so we’ll see how we go.”
Jonas’s side is sitting pretty at the top of the AFL ladder ahead of a meeting with Carlton at the Gabba in Brisbane on Sunday.
It will be another challenging encounter after another early start for the side, which will fly out on the day of the game for the second week running.
But the 29-year-old said the entire football department was accepting of whatever challenges arise.
“It’s all just a set of little challenges and little wins along the way,” Jonas said.
“We’re kind of treating it like we have a bit of a chip on our shoulder and wanting to prove everyone wrong and it seems to be working at the moment so we’ve adopted a great attitude, embraced it and the results are speaking for themselves a little bit.
“We’ve always got high expectations and it’s great to have a few of the boys who missed last year back on the park and full of confidence.
“If you look at our results, there were probably a couple of games where we might have thrown it in last year and we’ve managed to fight back and win those, so that’s been really positive.”
