"We just have to go out there and win. It doesn't matter how we win it. We have to have the mental application to get out there and win the game."
The loosehead prop has played more games for Southland than Otago - he played 36 games for the Stags - but is a passionate Otago man through and through, captaining the Otago Boys High School First XV.
Cameron (30), who is the oldest player in the Otago team, says the side has not clicked all season.
"We have started games well but then not finished them off. Or we have finished well but have not got off to that great a start," he said.
"We have got two games left and and we are going to go out there and try our best to win. You can talk about performances and bad luck, but at the end of the day the key to anything is the result."
Cameron, who played for New Zealand Maori this year, has played every game this year except for the match against Tasman when he was forced to withdraw because of a niggling ligament injury in his left knee.
"I pulled out before the team left but I was walking round after they had left and thought `the knee is pretty free, I could play,' but I was stuck in Dunedin."
He said the injury was minor and could be managed.
Dodgy knees and Cameron have a bit of a history together.
He is in his third year year of his return to rugby, as he took 2005 off after suffering acute patella tendonitis.
"It got so bad that it was hard to walk the day after a game."
He had played four years for Southland, but after a year completely off rugby, working as a personal trainer, he decided to give the game another crack, and starting playing club rugby for Dunedin in 2006.
"I had no expectations but it just sort of unfolded."
Cameron was yesterday named in an unchanged Otago forward pack for the game against Waikato in Hamilton tomorrow night.
There are injury-enforced changes in the backs, with Ben Smith moving from the wing to play fullback for the first time since Otago's loss to Southland a year ago, Karne Hesketh changing wings, and Lucky Mulipola starting on the right wing.
Smith has been one of the few Otago players to look lively in recent weeks and he should relish the opportunity to play in his preferred fullback position in place of the injured Glen Horton.
There is also a debut for Dan Snee at second five-eighth, replacing the injured Aaron Bancroft.
Snee is solidly built, with good distribution skills, and has been a sound performer at Otago B and club level.
Fellow University A midfield back Andrew Parata is on the Otago bench for the first time.
