With speculation over the Brownlow medallist's future rife, Ablett admitted the pair had endured a strained relationship during the 2010 season after the coach had publicly called on him to make his intentions known.
Former club president Frank Costa is on record as saying that he felt the rift had ultimately prompted Ablett's departure, but the Suns' skipper denied that assertion on One HD's One Week At A Time on Monday night.
"There has been a lot written about mine and Bomber's relationship,'' Ablett said.
"I just want to make this clear: I've got a lot of respect for Bomber, he was a big part of why Geelong had the success they did.
"We had a disagreement about a few things, but I think that's the same at any club.
"I'm sure our relationship, when we catch up at Grand Final reunions and things like that, we'll have a chat and remember the good times back then.
"But I just felt I needed a change, a new challenge. We'd obviously achieved a couple of premierships down there, which is the reason you play football, and I wanted to come up to a club that was starting from nothing and hopefully help the club be as successful as possible and win a few premierships."
Ablett was keen to emphasise that he's moved on from his difficult departure from the club he played 192 games for and is keen to concentrate on the big task that lies ahead of him with the fledgling Suns.
That task appears set to become even tougher with the possible loss of Campbell Brown for four weeks due to suspension and Ablett said his teammate's actions against the Western Bulldogs would come under scrutiny during the club's review of the 71-point defeat.
"We'll sit down … and we'll have a bit of a chat about it,'' he said.
"It's something I'm sure we'll address at the club.
"We love Campbell's hardness and how passionate he is about the football club and how much he wants to win, but Campbell not being out there isn't great for the football club. So that's something that we're going to have to address. We'll definitely talk about it.''
While Ablett didn't condone Brown's actions, he leapt to the defence of Rugby League convert Karmichael Hunt, who he feels has been unfairly criticised early in his transition from Rugby League to AFL.
"I think the expectations are a bit unfair on K,'' he said.
"Obviously, he's come across from rugby [league] and been a great player there. I think people are expecting him just to come out and play great footy straight away, but he's only had one pre-season and he's played [just] two games.
"He's definitely still got a lot to learn, but the great thing about K is that he'll give you a contest every week, he gives 100 per cent and he really trains hard.
"I think, you'll find as the games roll on and he plays more, that he's going to start to play even better footy for us.''
Ablett also backed his brother Nathan to play senior football with Gold Coast this season despite being largely unsighted early in the club's maiden AFL campaign and defended his right to have a life outside of football after attracting criticism for attending a UFC fight event instead of travelling to Perth for the club's NAB Cup clash with West Coast.
