Going into a grand-final as favourites can often bring added pressure but for Ryan Sinclair's sky blues, Saturday's Orange District Football Association decider against CYMS is just another day at the office.
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The veteran leader is confident in his side's ability and knows if they play to their strengths, they're in the box seat to lift the trophy.
"We just need to knock the ball around and opportunities will come," Sinclair said.
"Every game we'll get five or six good chance and we need to be putting them away. on Saturday.
"There's plenty of strike power for us up front... those guys are quick and mobile."
While it feels like the outcome of the finale is rested on Waratah FC's shoulders, Sinclair knows CYMS aren't taking the field for the sake of it and is mindful of the way Matt Roberts' youthful side going about their business.
"They're young and quick and they try to play football which is good," he said.
"They're still very raw and we're fairly experienced... there's only three guys on our team under 30."
Not only does Waratah FC have experience in their favour, they've also got a full complement of players for one of the first times all season.
"It's all hands on deck for us this week... I don't think anyone's not going to play," he said.
"There's three of four blokes on the bench for us who would walk onto most line-ups."
There's certainly more than enough quality floating around on the side for it to be a viable Western Premier League outfit and a spot in that competition next year is Sinclair's goal.
"We'll be there next year... there's no doubt about that," he said.
"It was just hard for us this year with blokes knowing only three-four weeks out. I think a lot of the guys just wanted to have a run locally rather than travel to Dubbo and Parkes."
CYMS' skipper Matt Roberts made the comment that Waratah FC was 'scared' to move up to the WPL and Sinclair had some choice words for the coach on Friday morning.
"I don't think Robbo's ever played in the WPL before," he said.
I don't think Robbo's ever played in the WPL before.
- Ryan Sinclair.
Sinclair doesn't need any more motivation than he's got and something that added to the desire to win it this year was the crushing 2019 loss to Barnstoneworth.
The sky blues dominated that campaign as well but fell at the final hurdle and the skipper certainly doesn't want to feel like he did last year.
"I thought we were the best side last year and this year but it doesn't matter once you get to a grand-final," he said.
CYMS will be hoping Saturday's game is a case of third time lucky as they drew with Waratah FC 2-2 in their first meeting before falling 4-1 towards the back end of the season. Kick-off is 3pm at Bernie Stedman field.
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