Daniel Kerr feared his hamstring problem was so bad he wouldn’t make it back to training, let alone to 200 AFL games.

Kerr reached the milestone with a starring role in West Coast’s stirring two-point victory over North Melbourne at Bellerive on Saturday.

A horrendous injury ended his 2010 season and hampered him throughout last year and the 29-year-old says doubts about his future were well founded.

“I never doubted I could get back to my best football – if my body allowed,” he said.

“I doubted at times whether my hamstring would allow me to do the training and the work I need to do to be good enough for the AFL.

“There’s a lot of work goes into football and if your body doesn’t allow you to do that work you can’t expect to play good football and I doubted whether my body would allow me at times.”

Kerr’s parents, brother and grandmother flew from Perth to Hobart to watch him reach his landmark but he said the achievement was all about the club.

“It was great to have a win just for the football club,” he said.

“You don’t really play football for your family, you play for your football club.”

Kerr is widely considered to be back to his best, but the man himself is hard to satisfy.

“I don’t think I’m back running as good as I can,” he said.

“But I’ve never really thought I’ve been going as good as I can so I’m not sure if I’ll ever be satisfied with the way I’m going until I finish.”

The win keeps the Eagles well in the hunt for a precious top-two spot for the finals, but coach John Worsfold said that race remained wide open.

“We’d love to (finish top) but that is a product of the work we’ve got to be prepared to do,” he said.

“We’re one of probably five or six teams that are really strongly looking at one of those top-two spots.”