Collingwood star Steele Sidebottom has reflected on the success he enjoyed early in his career and is eager to replicate those dizzy heights this season.

After being drafted in 2009, Sidebottom was part of the Magpies' 2010 premiership team that defeated St Kilda in the Grand Final replay in just his 36th match.

The 27-year-old will play his 200th game this weekend against Essendon and says he is determined to finals football for the first time since 2013.

“I was very lucky at the time that I came in,” Sidebottom told SEN’s Time On.

“I got to the club at a pretty good time and I was obviously lucky enough to get the ultimate success in 2010. It’s something that I’ll clearly never forget and is probably one of the better days of my life.

“At the time we had obviously been in a preliminary final in 2009, Grand Final in 2010 and same with 2011 and in 2012 we made it to a preliminary final.

“I just remember guys like Luke Ball telling me to really take it in, and being a young guy, it’s not always going to be like this.

“I think at the time when you are a young guy I don’t know if you probably take it in as much as what the older guys maybe do.

“Not playing finals for the last few years, I think having a taste early, experiencing that and knowing what the feeling is like, it’s definitely something that I’m very hungry to get back to and play finals footy.

“I’ve had to work a lot harder over the last few years, we haven’t been as successful as what we would have liked to have been.”

Sidebottom is having a career best season for the Pies, averaging almost 31 disposals a game and is in the mix to receive his first All-Australian gong of his career.

Listen to Steele Sidebottom’s chat with Sam McClure on SEN’s Time On in the player below