JAMES Jordon and Tom Sparrow are a low-fuss duo, in many ways.

They’re quiet achievers on the field and gentle in nature off it.

The pair that were drafted within just seven picks of each other in 2018, have since formed one of the most formidable bromances at Melbourne, spending very little time apart.

“We’re a pretty tight knit draft group and living together with Spaz makes us pretty close,” Jordon told Melbourne Media.

“We’re also in the same line group as well so we see quite a fair bit of each other.”

The living arrangement began at the start of 2021, alongside ex-player Aaron Nietschke.

But when Nietschke departed the club at the end of last season, Jordon and Sparrow were nearly left bare.

“Because Nieta and JJ moved out first – I stayed with my host family for an extra year – they’d already bought everything for the house,” Sparrow told Melbourne Media.

“I jumped in late.

“We just took Nieta’s couch, TV cabinet – I think the washing machine is Nieta’s.

“We just said I’d give him a bank transfer and take all his stuff from him – save him having to take it back to Adelaide.

“There are a few things here that are his, but we’ve just claimed them now.”

Aside from Nietschke’s ‘hand-me-downs’, it’s fair to say there’s little going on in the Jordon/Sparrow household.

To call them ‘minimalists’ would be an understatement.

“We’re pretty casual,” Sparrow said.

“Before two weeks ago we didn’t even have a fruit bowl or anything like that.

“I don’t think it’s something we’re really too fussed about, we sort of just use the place to relax and stuff like that.

“I don’t think it really bothers us much having paintings on the walls.”

Sparrow’s right, there aren’t any paintings on the walls, but there are nails and hooks aplenty if they ever change their minds.

The floor is slightly busier, though, with footballs in strange places.

“I just can’t be bothered cleaning them up,” Sparrow said.

“They’re normally in my car and I just take them out to go for a kick and then somehow they just end up in the loungeroom, so they just stay there.”

In terms of prized possessions, the midfielders have just one each.

“Just a couple of medals upstairs, maybe,” Sparrow said.

“But that’s about it.”

The other key question to a pair of footballers who live together is around the cooking situation.

And a ‘Better Together’ cookbook on the dining table was a misleading cue.

“Our partners did a cooking class, so we just stole the book off them and we try to muster up whatever’s in that book sometimes,” Jordon said.

“But it often doesn’t go to plan.”

The product isn’t important, it’s the method that counts.

“We don’t try too hard – as long as it’s easy to do, that’s the main thing,” Sparrow said.

“Whoever cooks, the other cleans – that’s pretty much how it goes.”

The processes that Jordon and Sparrow follow may cause concern for some parents out there, but they system works for them, and has elevated their football careers.