With so much going on inside the AFL world right now, we're taking a step back this week to look at the game from a different angle.

First up, Josh Gabelich speaks to Hawthorn star James Sicily to find out how his knee reconstruction is progressing, what life is like at Waverley Park right now and all about his white line fever.

Then we sit down with a man who knows the inside of the Premier League and the AFL like few others, Melbourne high performance manager Darren Burgess, who has previously run the sports science departments at Arsenal, Liverpool and Port Adelaide.

All that and plenty more on episode eighteen.