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WILL Genia is hoping a fighting attitude after being dropped can help him emulate his boyhood hero Steve Waugh and use a stint on the sideline to take his career to a new level.
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Speaking after earning a recall to the Wallabies No.9 to play Argentina on Sunday morning (AEST), Genia conceded a drop of fitness after the draining Lions series was a big factor in being dropped by coach Ewen McKenzie last month.
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The 48-Test halfback said while being benched for Nic White for two Rugby Championship games was painful enough he lost several nights sleep, he used it as a motivating kick in the backside to get fit and gain new perspectives.
"I think I needed to be fitter. And that's something I've worked really, really hard on in the last three or four weeks," Genia said.
"The biggest thing I've done is not drop my head. You can go one of two ways. You can just sook and drop your bundle and lose the plot, or you can work hard and give yourself every opportunity to play well in whatever chance you have.
"That's the path I took and I was fortunate enough to get 40 minutes at the weekend. Now I am lucky enough to be back starting. I enjoy starting games and finishing games, but it was really good to step back and take a different perspective on the game, see how I could do things differently."
It's often said the making of a champion Test cricketer is getting dropped, even Sir Don Bradman, who was dropped after his debut Test.
Genia's idol growing up in PNG was Waugh, who was dropped in 1990-91 after averaging 37.4. He came back and retired as Australian captain 11 years later with a batting average of 53.2.
Asked if he felt like the events of this winter could see him take his career to new heights, Genia said: "Only time will tell, but I think I have treated it the right way."
"I have gone away from it and come back with a positive frame of mind, and just clear thought processes about how I want to go about things; how I want to play the game, and where I need to be physically and mentally to play well.
"I am really happy. Even if I was on the bench this week, I would still feel as I feel now because I know in myself I didn't take the easy options and just bludge and get through it and get paid match payments and things like that. It means that much to me that I want to work hard and contribute."
The lag effect of the intense Lions series wasn't just felt by Genia.
The halfback believes the entire Australian squad suffered a psychological let-down phase after the brutal series was completed in July.
"It is not an excuse but people probably don't understand, mentally, it was huge," Genia said.
"We went into camp two weeks before the tournament, and it was so intense from that very first day.
"When we finally finished it was almost like the year was over, it was that sort of feeling - the year is done now you can have a rest.
"But it's not. You go straight back into Super Rugby and then you have the Rugby Championship."
Battered and with a sore knee, Genia had several weeks of "active rest" but now sees his fitness dipped.
"I probably didn't train at the intensity that I would have liked because I feel like I needed a rest in terms of my whole body," he said.
Genia said he held no anger at McKenzie for axing him.
"Obviously it was disappointing, and it was pretty hard to take, but looking back on it now, you can't be angry at Ewen or angry about anything," he said.
"You can just work hard to get yourself in a position to be playing well. And I know if I am playing well, I can contribute positively to the team and I want the team to do well, and I want to contribute that way."
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