"It's massive," he said. "I didn't think at one stage I was going to be playing for England again. So it's been quite a rollercoaster over the last six to eight months, and to be here with the team, it's quite an emotional time for me. To hopefully play the first Test is going to be huge for me and a massive achievement, and something that I'll never forget.
"I don't feel as though [last summer] took a huge amount out of me," he added. "It was obviously a tough series but I felt mentally fresh and, physically, it probably took me a week to get back to normal after the series, once the emotions died down. I felt like I could go again quite soon. Hopefully that's a positive to take from that. Look at Jimmy and Broady: they've done it for years and years, and they have to be physically and mentally capable and fit to do that, so it makes me feel like I am in a better place after the summer and what I experienced."
Robinson's two stints in Australian grade cricket, alongside Josh Hazlewood and Trent Copeland for Sydney and St George, have also helped to hone him as a bowler, while more recently he has been picking the brains of Troy Cooley, the former England and Australia bowling coach,
who has been recruited by the ECB as a consultant for this opening portion of the tour.
"When I came my second time at St George I really spoke to them [Hazlewood and Copeland] in depth about how they bowled in Australia," he said. "I was actually a professional cricketer the second time out. So I knew that I was trying to make it at a higher level and any information they could give me would help. Hopefully it helps me with the Test series."
One area, however, where he believes he will need no Australian instruction is in the matter of on-field verbals. "The Aussie chat is pretty horrendous if I'm honest, so not really," he said. "I don't think me as a person could keep my head down if I tried. I'm definitely going to be trying to get under their skins and try and unsettle them as it were, batters and bowlers really.
"If I can get them off their rhythm then we're winning, so it's something you'll definitely see and hopefully we will come out on top."