K Rock Football | A mere 4,334.1 km.

That’s the driving distance between St Albans Reserve and Tom Higgins’ Field of Dreams, Wickham Town Oval.

It’s the distance between the comforts of home and mum’s ‘spag bog’.

However, the Supersaints recruit is getting comfortable with being uncomfortable after making the trek across the Nullarbor from Western Australia’s Pilbara region following a suggestion from good mate, emerging Geelong defender Lawson Humphries.

“He asked me… in about February last year if I wanted to make the move, and I was a bit sheepish and I was like, ‘Nah, probably not’,” Higgins told K rock Football’s Beyond the Boundary podcast.

“And then I was playing Round 2 at Wickham Wolves in the Pilbara and unfortunately injured my knee for the second time in about 12 months.

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