While most sides in the Orange District Football Association's B-grade competition are vying off for finals in hard-fought games, arguably none will be harder fought than the consolation final.
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Ex-Services Bengals and Ex-Services Bobcats finished ninth and tenth in the end-of-season standings - last and second-last - and the two sides have decided to add some spice to what will already be a hotly-contested contest: namely, prizes.
The winning side will walk away with a golden toilet seat, mimicking the A-League's championship trophy, while the loser has a slightly less glamorous wooden spoon taped to a block of wood - with the word "lozers" scrawled across it.
Bengals captain Tom Corrigan said it was something the two sides had been discussion for "a few weeks now".
"During the season it became pretty obvious we'd be last and second last and we knew there was a consolation prize, so we thought 'let's finish with a bang, do something fun'," he said.
"There's a lot of excitement and it's building this week, even last week we had players playing for each other to help with numbers and were saying on the field about how much we were looking forward to it."
And as for the prizes?
"I can't stress enough how much I want to avoid the wooden spoon," Corrigan said.
"The two previous meetings the Bobs have just got over us so we are itching to get them in the one that matters ... this is the big one, we want to hold the toilet seat aloft and not the wooden spoon."
We wanted to make a bit of fun of it, it's going to be a great game.
- Ex-Services Bobcats manager Nick Bird
Corrigan said despite the difficult year on the field, it was one of his most enjoyable.
"We're all mates on the side of the pitch, we're all mates and get along really, really well but for 90 minutes on Saturday, there will be no friends on that pitch," he said.
"It will be hard as anything, but come full time we're having a barbecue and we're having partners and girlfriends and family to come down ... we figured we need to celebrate positively."
Bobcats manager Nick Bird admitted it had been a difficult season finishing last and second-last but was eager for the "grudge match".
The sides' two meetings so far this year have both gone Bird's way, but he said the good-natured contests were highly competitive.
"We wanted to make a bit of fun of it, it's going to be a great game," he said.
The match begins at 12.45pm on Jack Brabham 3, while KWS and Barnies Beyond Blue clash at Kinross, and CYMS Green take on Barnies Rangers at Jack Brabham 4 at the same time.
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