Given a beautiful day, organisers are expecting a very big crowd to be on hand when the opening game of round three of the ProTen Community Cup gets underway on Saturday at Goolgowi Sportsground.
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In the opening encounter, it's even money between Narrandera and Rankins Springs with both sides picking up one win and a loss in the first two weeks. In the last round, the Lizards were able to take out a thriller against Barellan while the Dragons pushed Goolgowi all the way before falling 16-12.
If Narrandera can open up a handy lead early, they will be tough to rundown and will be looking for big games from centre Joel Lyons, the very experienced Jason Mathews in the number 7, captain Gary Ingram and centres Wade Williams and Jamien Morgan who have speed to burn.
Rankins Springs, who is slowly getting back to the all-conquering form of 2018 will be looking for good performances in fullback Billy Vearing, centres Todd McCarten and Brent Parsons, goal kicking five-eighth Damien Walker and lock Billy Overall.
This one is very hard to find a winner, but with a toss of the coin, I'm going with Narrandera.
It will be the battle of the sides who are yet to win when Barellan take on Barellan. For the winners, the semi-finals are still a possibility while for the loser, it will be hard for them to make the final four.
Hillston has been right in their games to start the season but have been unable to close them out suffering a last-minute loss to Rankins Springs in round one before falling to Ivanhoe despite leading for much of the game.
Both sides have to lift tomorrow, and with what's at stake, it could turn out to be an exciting contest. While they won't be much in it at the finish, I'm tipping Hillston by a small margin.
In a game which is creating plenty of interest around the area, Goolgowi line up against the fast-rising Ivanhoe Roosters who have come from the clouds to develop into real premiership contenders
Goolgowi is the yardstick so far although the Roosters have been more than impressive and the victors here will become the outright Community up favourites.
The action gets underway at 12pm while the final game will kick off at 3pm.