With both Harry McKay and Jacob Weitering walking through the doors at IKON Park in 2015, the pair will enter another season together in the Navy Blue - this year, optimistic about what their young and unpredictable group could do.

With McKay a force to be reckoned with inside 50, the former Coleman Medallist says he's excited for what some fresh faces up forward can do with him this season. 

"Benny Ainsworth and Will Hayward coming in, they've been first class," he told Channel 7.  

"The forward line definitely looks different, I'd say a lot more dynamic.

"I haven't been this optimistic about a season in a long time. It just feels renewed. 

"It's a young group but really excited to see what we can do. Anything can happen, I can't wait." 

"You can't touch [Jagga Smith], he's got an ability to evade which not many do in the AFL and that's saying something about a guy who hasn't played an AFL game yet," Weitering told Channel 9. 

"[Michael Voss], to his absolute credit, is an absolute leader of men, and he took a lot of the pressure off our shoulders. He's backed his players in and we need to return the favour," he added. 

It's full steam ahead for the All-Australian defender, who is raring to go come March 5. But before that, Weitering will kit the Big V in the State of Origin match next weekend. 

"I'm hoping [Cripps] comes down for five or ten minutes, if we get a contest in that would be good because he's definitely not kicking one on me," he said. 

But if the countdown to Opening Round and the State of the Origin wasn't enough, he recently took on an even bigger role this off-season, becoming a father to daughter Florence - a role he says has been a pleasure. 

"It's probably a full-time job off the field as well, but [Florence] has done well. Isabel, my wife, has done a wonderful job so far and it's an absolute pleasure to be a father." 

"There's probably just a higher purpose in how you go about yourself, and what you do it for."