MELBOURNE young gun Jack Watts will play his first game for the year next weekend when the Casey Scorpions take on Port Melbourne.

Watts, the No.1 selection from the 2008 NAB AFL Draft, has been on a restricted training program since becoming a Demon at the age of 17 last November. 

The former Sandringham Dragon, who turned 18 in March, will put an end to months of frustration next Saturday night when he runs onto Casey Fields for the round two VFL match.

"I haven't really played for about six months now, so I can't wait," he said at the AIS/AFL Academy jumper presentation on Easter Saturday.

"It's the most frustrating thing, watching footy. I can't stand it, to be honest; you just want to get out there and make an impact.

"I guess everyone has to do their time and I've got to try and learn as much as I can now so I'm as best prepared as I can be for when I get out there."

Watts said he would still like to believe playing for Melbourne in his first year at the club was a realistic proposition for later this season.

"Towards the end of the year I'd love to get out there and play with the boys and see all the hours of training put into game play," he said.

"I guess it's just wait and see. I'd love to get in there as early as I can but it's not up to me.

"All I can do is put my best foot forward and do as well as I can for Casey and leave it up to them. I'll do my best."

The highly-touted forward said the program he and fellow young Demon Sam Blease had been on this pre-season had worked wonders on his physique. 

"I've put on plenty of kilos and I think I'm running better than I ever had," he said,

"The fitness staff has really made an emphasis on running and weights and I think it's going really well and hopefully we'll see it help me out on the field."

Watts said he was relishing the opportunity to train with the Demons on a full-time scale as he enjoyed his Easter break from year 12 studies at Brighton Grammar.

"It's been a nice cool change I guess, to be able to get back there full time," he said.

"I've actually got to run off to a session right now.

"It's just good being around the guys. When I'm at school, I'm there quite a fair bit but a lot of it is on my own or with one or two other blokes, which is just not the same."

Watts will meet with Brighton Grammar faculty members on Monday to discuss how much time he'll spend playing for his school this year.

He said the Demons had managed the dual program he and Blease were doing this year well, but he was looking forward to having more time to himself when school was over.

"It's pretty tough – it's just time; you don't have a lot of it and so when you're not doing school work you're doing training and when you're not training you're at school.

"You sort of have to find that time to just relax. But the club's been great with me, they've formulated a program and it's worked out really well.

"I'm really happy with the results and now we're on to stage two."