BY ALANA LAKELAND

COLLINGWOOD forward Anthony Rocca is on the verge of signing a new contract that would take him into his 13th season with the club.

The Pies veteran told the Herald Sun that he was close to finalising a one-year deal.

“I am in the process of nutting out a one-year contract and whether I am still good enough to keep going after that, we will see how my year goes,” Rocca said.

Rocca is widely tipped to head to America and follow in his brother Saverio’s footsteps and seek a punting career in the NFL but says he has not considered his life after AFL yet.

“If I feel the body can go again and the club wants me to go again, I will play. I want to get everything possible out of my body in the AFL scene,” Rocca said.

“Once I have done that, well that’s when I will move on.

“In a sense I am playing like this is my last year, because I don’t know where next year will take me,” he said.

Rocca made a solid start to the 2008 season, featuring in seven of the Pies’ first 12 games before succumbing to a recurrence of foot fractures. He sat out the remainder of the season but said his recovery is on track.

“I haven’t joined in main group (training) but it won’t be too far off. I am doing a little bit of running on specific days and before Christmas I am going to be on a pretty modified program and after that I should be full steam ahead,” Rocca said.

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