Despite only playing 11 games, the imposing full forward still finished fourth on the Riverina League's goalscorer's list with 34 before a quad injury ended his regular season in mid-July.

The season hiatus has given him plenty of time to get his body right after an ankle injury also limited his impact during last year's AFL Riverina Championship.

"It's been pretty frustrating but it's partly been my own doing I suppose," he said.

"It's all about what you do to your body off the field. If you're not preparing properly and doing the right thing it catches up to you, it doesn't matter who you are.

"I've been keeping the standards at training up, but probably wasn't doing the extras off the track like stretching and gym work and that type of stuff.

IN OTHER NEWS

"You come from that high standard of NEAFL footy where you're training three times a week, you're in the gym with the team four days a week.

"When you come back home you can let the foot off the pedal a bit. You still try and follow those NEAFL programs and do that level of training, but without the gym work it does catch up with you."

A fit and firing Corbett would be a massive boost for the minor premiers, who have still found a way to hit the scoreboard without him and fellow key forward George Alexander (ankle).

"I'm running at top pace and it like it (injury) never. happened. I've been doing some kicking and it seems fine," Corbett said.

"The Ganmain boys have been really good, they've probably been training more than they were during the season. George has gone for a couple of runs and he's looked pretty good."

Corbett said adopting a mindset to train assuming the finals has been played has been difficult for players.

"I'd be lying if I said it wasn't pretty tough," he said.

"The first couple of weeks you're full of motivation and tucking into training, but as the weeks go by you realise it's closer to maybe not happening. But we're still doing a lot of training and hoping it gets up.

"We don't have the double chance anymore but the boys are excited about cut throat finals. No one's too disappointed about that, we'll do anything to play a bit of footy."

Our journalists work hard to provide local, up-to-date news to the community. This is how you can continue to access our trusted content: