Champion Hawthorn veteran Shane Crawford will decide in the next month whether he will pull on the boots again.
Should Crawford, 34, decide he will not saddle up for an 18th league season he will have bowed out in the best possible manner, his last game being Saturday's victorious Grand Final against Geelong.
"I'll answer that in a few weeks because I don't know," Crawford said when asked if he would play on next year.
"I need to enjoy the moment and then just reflect and work out what the club wants to do as well. It's a great feeling, why wouldn't you want to do it again."
"I'm sure as the night goes on and in the next few days it will really sink in what's just happened."
Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson said he would leave it up to Crawford to decide.
"It's up to Crawf whether he goes on. We don't have to make that decision for the next three or four weeks," Clarkson said.
"If he does decide to retire there couldn't be abetter way for him to go out, but he's such a resilient player and so professional in the way that he prepares he could go on."
But all Crawford wanted to do on Saturday night was celebrate the premiership he thought he would never be a part of.
The veteran admitted he thought his chance of playing in a premiership team had passed.
When Clarkson took the reins at Glenferrie following the Hawks' disastrous 2004 season, he warned Crawford there would be tough times ahead for the club as it blooded kids.
Players such as Nathan Thompson and Jonathan Hay were moved on, but Crawford stayed put.
"I thought at least I can be involved and help them come along as quick as possible," he said.
It was not until last year that Crawford felt the premiership cup that had eluded him his whole career was within reach.
After enduring an inglorious finals exit last year, Crawford knew as he approached the last two months of the season, it was 'now or never'.
"And as I was driving here today I thought it has to be today, come on now!" he said
"I think all the boys were thinking on the same lines. Everything was perfect."
While his team-mates said Crawford was at the forefront of their minds prior to the game, the veteran himself was dedicating the victory to ex-team-mates who had bowed out without the ultimate success.
"Being through a lot of tough times at the football club, to be standing here celebrating a premiership with a lot of past mates and current mates as well … I felt for those guys who weren't lucky enough to be part of it," he said.
"I felt they were riding with me particularly in the last month."
"To be standing here now with a premiership medallion and the premiership cup, this is as good as it gets."