PATRICK Dangerfield anticipates an "adjustment period" as he gets used to playing with his new Geelong midfield teammates.

Dangerfield's arrival in the off-season, on a lucrative six-year deal worth up to $800,000 a season, was a major coup for the Cats as the club continues the regeneration of their list.

However, the star onballer is well aware that not everything is going to run smoothly as he and fellow recruits Lachie Henderson, Scott Selwood and Zac Smith learn Chris Scott's game plan.

"When you've been in the same environment for a long period of time you understand the players that you're playing with," Dangerfield said.

"That will be an adjusting time for all of us who have moved clubs but I'm confident we can do some good things in the pre-season.

"It might take a couple of games at the start of the year but I think once we build that cohesion we can do some pretty good things on the field."

Dangerfield said it would be important for Geelong's midfielders to be versatile, with the former Crow joining Joel Selwood, Mitch Duncan, Josh Caddy, Mark Blicavs and Cameron Guthrie who can rotate through the centre square.

"You have to play more than one position, especially with rotations reducing quite significantly," Dangerfield said.

"That'll be the challenge for all football clubs that the midfielders who play every week will be able to go either half-back, half-forward, deep forward or deep back. That will be important for us to get right throughout the pre-season and the pre-season competition."

Selwood has been on light duties this pre-season after being held back by a series of niggling injuries that got the better of him toward the end of the 2015 season.

He expects to return to full training after the Christmas break but that has not stopped him planning for the different midfield setups the club could put in place in the upcoming season.

But the Geelong skipper denied it would be just a Selwood-Dangerfield show through the middle of the ground.

"We're already in talks about game plan stuff, more as a collective than just the two of us. It's not going to be the two of us that get us over the line come September or October next year," Selwood said.

"We've got to work in with the whole group and we've still got plenty of work to do."

Dangerfield and Selwood joined CEO Brian Cook at the MCG on Thursday as Geelong announced it had extended its partnership with Ford Australia for another five years.

The Cats believe partnership with Ford Australia, which will have lasted 95 years by the time the new deal expires in 2020, is the longest-running sports sponsorship in world sport.