Cloke, 24, was taken with much fanfare by Collingwood under the father-son rule in 2002, and agrees his career has been something of a slow burn to this point.
"This is my seventh season and it's gone very, very quickly I can tell you," he says.
"There have been four shoulder recos so it has been a bit of an up and down journey at times. There have been a few times where I've thought, 'What the hell am I doing?'
"Round three will be my 50th game so it could be the longest 50th milestone ever, but I've enjoyed it."
Cloke cites his strong pre-season as a powerful confidence booster with a slight wrist issue before Christmas the only hiccup.
Well, okay, maybe not the only hiccup.
"It got blown up to be a big deal, but to be 100 per cent truthful it didn't bother me," Cloke replies when asked the inevitable question about his unfortunate coming together with teammate Setanta O'hAilpin during an intra-club trial game.
"I said to Juddy after it happened, 'Look you can do what you like [in terms of punishment], but I'm happy to just leave it as it is'.
"Setanta spoke to me about half an hour after the game. It's all good, we're fine. We've moved on and we don't even talk about it. It's not an issue.
"What's happened has happened and it was just a spur of the moment thing. That's footy."
Read the full interview with Cameron Cloke on carltonfc.com.au.
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