ASK Trent Rose.
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Back in February, Rose knew come September this year, Orange CYMS would be preparing to play in another Group 10 grand final - the club’s fourth premier league decider in six seasons.
He even had an inkling the club would have hosting rights.
And here we are, eight days out from the biggest day of the Group 10 season and, so far, Rose is looking every bit the Nostradamus.
“Talking to Matt King at the start of the year, I did, to be precise, I thought we would be here,” Rose said after last Sunday’s 18-16 major semi-final win over Workies.
“It’s a strong pack, a great club and really professional club, just how it’s run.
“It is the best country club I’ve ever been involved with, just the professionalism of it all. The club itself, how professional they are, wouldn’t look out of place in a Sydney comp.
“I’ve played down there, and it’s big props to the CYMS club.”
Just who Rose and his CYMS teammates will be tackling, though, well that’s a little less clear to the hugely impressive backrower.
“Both teams that are playing next week, they’ve beaten us once this year,” he said of Lithgow and Mudgee.
“I wound’t write Mudgee off. They’re a class act ... I honestly don’t know.
“Whoever it is, no doubt it’ll be a great day and hopefully get a big crowd here at home.”
After spending last winter with Bathurst Panthers, Rose said being part of the CYMS club in 2015 and helping them to another grand final was something to savour.
Last Sunday’s performance to get this far was also something the ball-playing backrower won’t forget - in fact, he’s probably still recovering from it.
“(Lithgow is a) massive pack,” Rose said.
“It’s a massive win for us in our 70th year. To get in the grand final is big and to host it is bigger than that. “But the physicality of the Lithgow team will definitely have taken its tole on a few of the boys - that week off will do us good.
“We let them in the game which killed us, but their big boys like running it and running it and we were just lucky we had big Simon Osborne, Cam Jones in the middle. They held their own.”
