Still a mountain to climb ... Jobe Watson.

Brownlow medal winner Essendon's Jobe Watson. Photo: Sebastian Costanzo

AFTER delivering his Brownlow Medal winning press conference, Jobe Watson found himself in a room, with plenty of food and drink and two men who had also taken home Charlie.

He was celebrating with friends, family, teammates, the people "he wanted to believe with". But as he looked at his coach James Hird and fellow Essendon great Gavin Wanganeen, something was missing.

Although Watson said in one way his Brownlow win had elevated him into such elite company, having a drink with Hird and Wanganeen was a reminder his career is still far from being fulfilled.

"Those guys are both ... premiership players and that is something that I think when you finish you career you want to be known as someone who has played in a premiership," Watson said. "Certainly that would be the goal for me and that's where those guys sit in my mind is they've had the ultimate team success and that's what we all play for.

"It's hard to know how the guys from the Swans and the Hawks are feeling. You could imagine that they're just beside themselves with excitement and that feeling I had last night is something that you want to emulate with your teammates. Only the opportunity to be involved in a premiership will deliver that."

Watson believes his dream can be realised, with Essendon on the cusp of catapulting itself into the top four, despite the Bombers crumbling in the past two seasons.

"It's so even the competition and the amount of improvement a side can make from one preseason to the next, I think it's 17 out the last 19 years someone outside the top eight has finished in the top four the following year.

"The game is conducive to a rapid amount of improvement. We have got a lot of work to do but I wouldn't be playing if I didn't think we are a chance of being successful."

While Watson said he wasn't keen to hit the track again just yet, (allow him a decent night's sleep first!) his reddened eyes lit up when asked about the upcoming preseason.

He will join several of his teammates on a trial altitude training camp in the US, a first for Essendon.

The Bombers emerged bigger, faster and stronger after last year's preseason under a gruelling program by high-performance guru Dean "the Weapon" Robinson. But Robinson's program, which the club is reviewing among other things, came under fire after the Bombers were hit with a soft-tissue injury epidemic in the second half of the season.