“I had a big pre-season, I played round one (in 2011) but didn’t play too wellover in Adelaide and we got beaten – I had been dropped after the lasttwo round one games so I was hoping that wasn’t going to happen again. Lucky enough I got picked for round two.
“That was the game against Melbourne where I had over 30 touches andkicked a couple of goals, which really gave me confidence and the boysgot around me.
“From then on, it’s just kind of flowed on, which has been good.
“Everyone was pretty happy I’d had that breakout game, they saidthat’s what they’d been looking for from me and now that it’s happened,it’s important to have another couple of good games in the weeksfollowing.”
He averaged more than 20 disposals and six marks in 2011 and the following year played in the GrandFinal.