After an extended amount of time on the sidelines, Adam Treloar was at the mercy of a second game lull.

Whether its truth or myth, the theory goes that your second outing back after injury is harder to overcome than the first.

After an impressive 24-disposal outing against West Coast in the Qualifying Final, the Collingwood midfielder backed it up in style with an explosive performance against the GWS Giants a week later.

The crowd was bigger, the margin was friendlier and Treloar was loving every minute of it.

“It was the loudest crowd I’ve played in front of. It was enormous,” he told Collingwood Media podcast ‘Sports Galore’.

“When Travis Varcoe kicked that goal 20 seconds into the last quarter, the crowd was crazy. I was just like ‘this is so good’. And then we just kept kicking goals and it was unbelievable.”

Like so many of his Magpie teammates, Treloar took his game to another level in the final term against the Giants.

It came after a frustrating third quarter where the tough, congested style of game meant he was stuck on the interchange bench for 12 minutes.

“The ball was stuck at the other end of the ground… I was getting frustrated because I wanted to get back out there.

“It got to the point where I was actually cold, because it was a freezing night.”

As the 25-year-old explained, coach Nathan Buckley used the three-quarter time huddle to remind his players of last week’s failings and urge them on to Semi Final victory.

Treloar responded, starred in the last quarter and is now preparing for a Preliminary Final.

“He (Bucks) said ‘we’re in the same position as we were last week, let’s make sure we don’t play like we did last week and finish it off’.

“I felt like if I could play my role and do that, it would go a long way towards helping the guy next to me.”

Sports Galore S2EP15: Impact of the crowd, real or fake rivalries and more
Building momentum in the Semi (1:00), a final quarter to remember (2:45), “it’s about us” (6:00), the impact of the crowd (7:30), Brayden Maynard vs Toby Greene (8:30), real or fake rivalries (11:30), the Aussie punter changing the NFL (15:20), off days at the library (17:20), Ben Simmons’ TV show (18:40) and more.