Greater Western Sydney spearhead and Dartmoor product Jeremy Cameron is hungry for premiership success after sticking with the club through thick and thin.
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The Giants face Richmond in the AFL grand final at the MCG on Saturday.
The AFL's youngest club will play in its first decider.
The 26-year-old, who won the Coleman Medal for the first time this season with 67 goals, said team success was his focus.
"What you play footy for is to win with your whole club," he said at a press conference this week.
"Your 21 other guys out there that you absolutely love.
"You see it each and every year, you're so jealous there watching on.
"And watching the team lift the cup and I want that to be us."
Cameron, a 2013 and 2019 All-Australian, has been at the Giants since the club started playing in the AFL.
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He arrived in 2011 as an underage recruit when he was 17.
He hails from Dartmoor Football Netball Club in the South West District Football Netball League.
The club changed its name from the Dartmoor Swans to the Dartmoor Giants because of Cameron getting picked up by GWS.
Dartmoor is an hour north-west of Portland.
The Giants' gun forward, who surpassed 150 matches this season, made his debut in the club's first ever game in round one, 2012.
Especially coming from nothing and getting beaten often by 100 points to now be in a grand final is a huge effort for the club.
- Jeremy Cameron
He has been the Giants' leading goal-kicker in every season of their existence.
The athletic match-winner said the club had come a long way since it started.
"Getting to the club when I was 17 and looking forward, it seemed so far away," Cameron said of the decider.
"Especially coming from nothing and getting beaten often by 100 points to now be in a grand final is a huge effort for the club."
The loyal Giant said he had been reflecting on the club's journey.
"It's probably something as I've gotten into bed the last couple of nights I've been able to reflect on," he said.
"It's been huge for the club, it's absolutely amazing.
"And I think we just need to embrace the whole week and what comes with it."
He said his attitude had changed as he had grown older.
"As a 17, 18-year-old you just want to cement your spot in the side but then that quickly turns into 'how we can get into a grand final and win one'," he said.
"So that's always been the goal and it's exciting times ahead this week."
Cameron said the club stuck together despite heavy losses in its first couple of seasons.
"That's what the club did so well in the early days," he said.
"We always made sure we got together after games.
"We'd get beaten by 120 points and all the families would be back at the pub.
"All the boys would be back there having beers together."
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