The men in teal will head to Diggings Oval on Saturday as they look to repeat an opening-round effort that saw them knock off the perennial heavyweights in their own building.

And while Beahan knows his men are capable of repeating that result, it won't happen unless they nullify Grabham's go-forward as the former Bathurst Panther is having an MVP-caliber campaign with the Mungoes.

"Our goal is to contain him [Grabham]," United co-coach Kurt Beahan said.

"He's responsible for a lot of their go-forward and we're going to be coming out with a lot of energy in the first 10 minutes... we're jumping out of our skin to play."

Part of the reason why United is champing at the bit to get onto the paddock is because it's only played one game in five weeks as a series of byes and forfeits have seen them on the sidelines for several Saturdays.

A long lay off might traditionally cause rust, but Beahan thinks it's going to have the opposite affect on his side as many players have re-found their passion for the title race during the hiatus.

"Admittedly, we were in some pretty rough waters a month ago," he said.

"We had a few things going on internally and not a lot of blokes were coming to training.

"But, I think a lot of players started to miss the game and that showed in the first 30 minutes against Portland... we would have beaten anyone in that first half."

The 42-10 demolition of Portland is the only match the Warriors have played in the last five weeks, and if that performance is any indication of their form, they should be primed to give CSU a run for their money.

"They'd [CSU] have to be favourites," he said.

"Just because of who they are and what they've done. They have a culture at their club that we're trying to build at ours.

"They're all young fellas that are full of energy and they can win games without playing their best footy."

While it's a nice thing to say about a club, you get the feeling the students won't be in a mood to take their foot off the pedal and will be hell bent on making it two wins in-a-row against the Warriors after knocking them off at Wade Park earlier in the season.

Beahan had his say about the students' key men - adding fullback Michael Latu to the list of players that must be watched - but gave a shout out to his own number one as Matty Fuller has finally found the form the entire club knows he's got in him.

"If he keeps calm then nine times out of 10 he's the best player on the field," he said.

"He's really stood up in the back half of the season."

Saturday's preliminary final commences at 2.30pm from Diggings Oval.

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