TAKING out the Champions Trophy with the Kookaburras and being voted the world's best player for the third time isn't quite enough for Australian co-captain Jamie Dwyer.
He wants more. It will hopefully come after a trip to New Delhi in March when the Kookaburras contest the 2010 World Cup.
"We're going there to win," Dwyer said. "If we can play the way that (coach) Ric (Charlesworth) wants us to play, then we can."
Dwyer was in Warrnambool yesterday running clinics with teammates Luke Doerner and Mark Knowles.
The superstar conceded there was a lot of work to do after the Kookaburras' Champions Trophy campaign, which finished with a 5-3 victory over Germany in the grand final in Melbourne on Sunday.
"There's quite a lot of things we need to improve on," he said.
"Our outcomes inside the circle and our defensive circle weren't so strong."
The side has a 10-day break over Christmas before resuming training in early January ahead of the World Cup.
Dwyer soaked up the Champions Trophy triumph.
"It was awesome being able to play it on home turf," he said. "It's been 10 years since the last Champions Trophy was here.
"Just playing in front of that crowd was amazing and to win against the Germans made it even better."
The victory strengthened his astounding hockey resume, which includes an Olympic gold medal in Athens, an Olympic bronze medal in Beijing, captaining the 2007 world team and Commonwealth Games gold medals in 2002 and 2006.
On the weekend he was judged the International Hockey Federation men's player of the year award for the third time.
He also received the honour in 2004 and 2007.
"Winning it once I thought maybe I was lucky, to win it twice was amazing and it showed I was consistent but to win it three times was just mind-blowing," he said.
The Queenslander believed the profile of hockey was beginning to lift.
"I think having the Champions Trophy here really helped," he said.
"There's been a bit of a standstill the last five years because there's so many other sports in Australia.
"In Melbourne it's all about AFL and soccer is getting up there too.
"We've medalled at the last five Olympics, so we've been very successful but we want to keep that going so numbers can keep growing."
He hoped clinics like yesterday's - run by his and Knowles' coaching business 1&9 - helped with the moving forward process.
"A lot of Kookaburras are from country areas so we try and get out to rural areas as much as we can," he said.
Meeting the world's best hockey player was the last thing on Scott Nelson's mind a year ago.
The Warrnambool 14-year-old had never played the sport, let alone thought he would by coached by Dwyer.
"I've only started playing hockey last year. To learn from Jamie is great. It would be great to be like him," he said.
Scott joined the south-west Vicstix development squad this year.
Teammate Rebecca Jellie also watched as Dwyer showed off his skills. She was one of more than 100 junior hockey players to participate in the clinics.
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