The 26-year-old's daring and dash epitomised the game plan the Cats are banking on getting them back in contention in 2007.

Wojcinski's run out of defence will be a welcome return to the line-up this season, after spending most of last year getting back into the swing of things after his 2005 knee reconstruction.

One of the Cats' best during their decisive win over Richmond last weekend, Wojcinski's style is what the Cats will try and replicate throughout the season, with a daring, attacking style going forward.

"Hopefully that's what I can do. Not just me, though, there's a lot of other players that can do it like Josh Hunt _ he's another one that can really burst up through the middle,'' Wojcinski said.

"Pretty much everyone can do it, Scarlo even, he's really good at that.''

The Cats took every opportunity possible to play on and move the ball quickly through the corridor on Sunday.

Wojcinski says it's just a matter of keeping up with the rest of the competition.

Teams that mess around with the ball these days quickly get left behind, as the Cats found out several times last year.

"I think that's the style of the AFL now, just fast play on footy. We're no exceptions, we're just doing the same as every other club - just playing on quick. That's the best way to do it,'' he said.

"When you've got blokes like Moons and Otto grabbing everything, or making a really good contest of it, as well as Nathan (Ablett), and Charlie Gardiner leading up was good, it really gives you a lot of confidence going into the forward line.

"It makes your life easy down back when you've got blokes putting that much pressure (on) down in the forward line, not letting the ball out easy. Especially through the midfield, they put a lot of pressure on.

"The practice matches we've been playing have been a bit lower intensity just because we're playing against ourselves, but playing against an opposition, we really came out to play a higher intensity game of footy and we did that and ran.

"All the tackling and stuff like that in the midfield was good.''

Wojcinski played a total of 15 senior games last season, and is looking to recapture his best form now that injury and fitness problems are behind him.

"I didn't feel anything throughout the knee at all last year. I had full confidence in it, it was just my fitness that really struggled through the year,'' he said.

"But hopefully the pre-season I've had will hold me in good stead for the rest of the year.''

Coach Mark Thompson said Wojcinski's 2007 would give the Cats a better indication of his importance to the side is than anything he was able to offer last season.

"We didn't put any pressure on him last year after his knee, and certainly he's trained hard. You just knew that there was a bit of determination about it, he just thought `I want to have a really big year' and the first game he started well, he played pretty well in the practice games too, so I'm happy for him,'' Thompson said.

"Going through a knee is a big trauma and to get back is a big challenge and it'd be nice if he repeated that (Sunday's form) a few more times, he'd be a good player for us again.''