Fremantle captain Matthew Pavlich has declared he wants to play as much football as possible in season 2015.

The 33-year-old Freo superstar has impressed during the pre-season and has no plans to take his foot off the pedal while training.

“The expectation is that I play as often and as regularly as I can,” Pavlich said.

“I’ve hit the ground running in the off-season and in the pre-season just gone and I feel capable of doing as much as I can.

“Clearly that will be monitored as the season goes, but right now I’m doing every minute of pre-season with the aim to play as many games as I can.”

The 2015 season will be Pavlich’s 16^th in the AFL and Freo’s games and goals record holder isn’t sure if it will be his last.

“I have an open mind about when it (retirement) might be and how it might play out, but the past few years I’ve thought that potentially could be the case and you take nothing for granted,” he said.

“Every time I come to training and every time I pull on the jumper there’s a feeling of privilege and pride in being able to do it every day.

“This has been my dream and passion for so long and whilst I still can play, I’ll absolutely play, but understanding at some stage it’s around the corner.”

Pavlich was quizzed regarding the captaincy for this season, but revealed it would be decided in the not too distant future when the players get together.

“The leadership vote will be in a few weeks time and until that point there’s no news, unfortunately,” he said.

“There is a bit more pre-season to get through and the vote will occur shortly.”

Pavlich also isn’t sure if he would remain as captain, even if his peers voted him in.

“Well that’s really dependent on how the leadership vote goes,” he said.

“It’s been an absolute privilege to represent this footy club as captain for so long and I take the responsibility on with a great level of desire and will to keep pushing in that role.

“If that’s the case, we will review it once the vote plays itself out, but there’s a bit of water to go under the bridge yet.”

With only a handful of players in the rehabilitation group, including Michael Johnson and Colin Sylvia, Pavlich was pleased with how the list was looking at this stage of the year.

“I think we are pretty healthy, there’s been a couple that have been in and out of that group a little bit, but on the whole, the group has been able to do a huge amount of football minutes and that’s been a real focus this pre-season,” he said.

“We feel as though we are training a lot more specific to the way we want to play and that’s by virtue of how healthy the list is.

“I’d love to think that intense pre-season means we’re going to shoot the lights out, but unfortunately I don’t have a crystal ball.

“What I do know is that hard work, and that efficiency and that intensity gives us half a chance at playing somewhere near our best.”