CTV > Tarkyn Lockyer's Tuesday press conference

COLLINGWOOD midfielder Tarkyn Lockyer is excited about his potential involvement in the AFL's Hall of Fame Tribute Match, but admits he would ultimately prefer to represent his home state of Western Australia in pure State of Origin football.

Lockyer, 28, was one of eight Magpies to receive selection into the 40-man squads for the match, with his origins outside of Victoria earning him a Dream Team guernsey.

While the durable on-baller said it was a "great honour" to win a spot in the extended squad, he said participating in straight State of Origin football is a continued goal of his.

"Being from WA, I would love to represent WA at some stage in the State of Origin, but if this is the closest we're going to get for a few years, I'm more than happy to put my hand up," Lockyer said at Collingwood recovery session at St Kilda Sea Baths on Tuesday.

"But to take on the Vics and beat them would be fantastic.

"It's a tremendous honour and hopefully I can make it into the side, but we'll have to see. It's still a long way off yet and I suppose if I can keep playing decent footy, my name will get chosen."

Lockyer said the match, which teammates Travis Cloke, Josh Fraser, Heath Shaw, Dane Swan, Dale Thomas, Leon Davis and Alan Didak could also be a part of, looms as a "special occasion" in the season calendar.

He also remains unconcerned about a week that will see most players in the league rest from competition while 50 others are involved in a serious hit-out.

The Magpies have finished their post-mortem of the side's recent 23-point shock-loss to Carlton and are cohesively "disappointed" with the performance.

"We had a look at the video and had the team meetings yesterday, and we were just trying to dissect where we went wrong," Lockyer said.

"Now we wake up this morning, and the sun has come up and it's a new day and new week. We looked at it yesterday and Carlton is behind us now.

"We've got another opportunity on Saturday night against the Kangaroos, and our focus is totally towards that.

"We've looked at the game and we were disappointed it wasn't the Collingwood we've come to know, and hopefully it's an aberration and we can come out this week and put up a much better performance."

Lockyer said the absence of the club's new captain Scott Burns, who has played just two matches this season and is poised to miss another week with calf soreness, is not affecting the playing group's morale.

"Burnsy is a wonderful leader and a great player, but you don't necessarily want to rely on one guy to get you up each week," he said. "If you did that, we'd be letting ourselves down.

"We rely on 22 guys doing their job and playing their role, which is something we've done with some success lately.

"Unfortunately on the weekend we didn't have that, but looking forward to this week we'll get back on the horse."

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