In his exclusive column with the Gold Coast Bulletin, Gary Ablett speaks about his season-ending knee injury.

I believe in silver linings. And you could say that last weekend’s season-ending knee injury is a chapter straight out of the Silver Linings Playbook.

To go down just three matches back from my shoulder injury was more than disappointing.

We train for five months of the year so we can run out 23 home and away games — and then hopefully play September football. But 2015 has been far from ideal.

With my shoulder, I’ve played just six games and that’s where it’s going to stay.

Rodney (Eade) had a chat to me and said he didn’t want me rushing back and at least now I’ll be forced to get my shoulder right and I think doing my knee may be a blessing in disguise.

I’ve battled a frozen shoulder and the extra rest will do me a world of good. I don’t need any more surgery — on my shoulder or knee — so I’m excited about getting myself right and then ripping into a full pre-season.

I’ve said it before but I really do make a terrible spectator and I’m not one for sitting on the couch and watching TV.

My leg will be in a brace for at least four weeks and at the moment it has to stay elevated, so there’s not much I can do ... but I’m already sick of the couch.

I’ll be doing a fair bit of reading and trying to get to the club as much as I can.

I’ve been super lucky to have my fiancee Jordan and brother Nathan both helping me ... Jordan has been driving me to various medical appointments and helping me out with meals.

And with Nathan also around, I haven’t had to lift a finger. I’m the older brother but Nathan is bigger than me so he’s usually bossing me around ... but this time I reckon I have a good excuse.

Nathan played at the top level with me in Geelong for five or six years and he can relate to what I’ve been going through but to be honest, there are guys at the club who have had worse injuries than me.

We’ve got six games to go and although we’ve had a tough season I still believe our club has the list to win a premiership in the next couple of years.

We are playing much smarter football and are capable of taking our game to the next level.

Until then, I’ll be spending time with the boys at the club and going through running patterns, video edits ... acting more like a development coach.