The former Hawk and Magpie who now coaches at Box Hill, plans to pull on the jumper of his junior club when he has a break in his VFL schedule.

"With the schedule as it is in the VFL I saw there would be a couple of gaps throughout the year and decided it would be a good opportunity to potentially play a couple of games and see how the season goes at Minyip- Murtoa," Young said.

"It all might depend on how Box Hill go late in the season as to how much footy I'll actually play but I'm looking forward to it nonetheless."

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Although he isn't getting any younger and lives in Gisborne, the lure of finishing his career at his junior club was too much for the 35-year-old.

"I think being the age that I am, I know that I don't have much football left, so I think the idea is I'd love to retire as a Minyip-Murtoa player," he said.

"I was lucky enough to play with my brother there five years ago and I saw that my nephew debuted on the weekend which is special as well. To go home and play in front of my family, it means a lot to me to go back to where it all started and end my career that way."

Young spent 2016 with the Burras after retiring from the AFL in 2015 with 137 games to his name.

That year he played 17 games and kicked a very respectable 26 goals in a side that lost the grand final by two-points to the Saints.

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He then spent the next three seasons playing with Gisborne in the Bendigo Football league, the last two of which he was a playing-coach

In 2017 Minyip-Murtoa again fell agonisingly short in the grand final before finally breaking through for a premiership in 2019.

Because of their recent success, Young said he would be understanding if the club decides to adhere to their policy of starting all recruits in the reserves.

"I've had a couple of chats with John (Delahunty), I'm not fussed where I play, so I think knowing the success that Minyip Murtoa had in 2019, I'm not putting John under any pressure," he said.

"If that means I'm playing reserves I'm quite content with that and as long as I'm out there having a run and I'm pulling on the jumper again with my family there, that's all I'm after."

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