After tasting AFL action for the first time last season, Majak Daw has big plans for more. The ruck/forward played six games and in that time gathered 43 touches, 16 marks and nine goals.

He told the Herald Sun's Glenn McFarlane, he plans to make more of his opportunities in 2014 and hopes his season end knee surgery will help him achieve greater things.

"It was an old PCL injury from when I landed on it in my first year at the club and it had some micro tears along the way," Daw said.

"I guess it has just held me back a little from developing as fast as I have wanted. I haven't been able to get through a whole training week with it.

"In the past it's been fine in the pre-season. But in season the durability of it caused a few problems. I just had to manage it and ice it after every game.

"I didn't want to get it done when I had the operation (in August). But I took the advice of Steve (Saunders) and the others, and I'm glad I did now."

With team arriving in Utah over the weekend, Daw will attend his fourth altitude camp, but will be restricted in what he can do.

"The (Utah) trip has been so good for me in the past and the gains from going there have been enormous for me," he said.

"I am a little bit disappointed that I won't be able to do all that much over there this time, but it will still be a great experience.

"I just have to make sure that I tick all the boxes and do all the right things on my way back.

"It's my goal at the moment to be back playing footy by the start of the season."

With his sights set on next year and with a two-year deal under his belt at the Kangaroos, Daw knows what's expected and he puts an equally high level of expectation on himself.

Daw's only full game (having been subbed out in five others) came against the Bulldogs and he finished with 6.8, 18 touches and eight marks.

"That game against the Bulldogs has to be my benchmark now.

"I don't want to be a player who is a flash in the pan. I want to be a consistent AFL footballer and hopefully if I can get the knee right, that's where I want to reach.

"In a sense, it was a breakout year for me, but until I can do it for longer and until I can play more games, I won't be satisfied."

But the 22-year-old is not about to let that one standout effort go to his head.

"Given where I've come from, and how hard I've worked to get here, I won't let one game get to me."

"I am still in my development stages as a player, but I have to become more consistent next year," he said.

"I don't have to look too far to see someone who I need to follow, someone like Drew Petrie.

"The way he prepares for games and the way he manages his body has been important to watch. I guess the more you play, the more you learn from people like that."