HE'S scored close to 150 points himself, been the mastermind behind plenty of others and led the CSU Mungoes on a 10-game run without suffering a New Era Cup defeat - but Billy Dickinson still wants more.
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The star halfback and Mungoes skipper wants to cap what has already been an impressive season 2019 with a New Era Cup premiership trophy by beating the Orange Barbarians on Saturday at Diggings Oval.
For the last two years the Mungoes have come up short on grand final day - falling to Wallerawang in 2017 and Blackheath in 2018. But this time around CSU will hold the home ground advantage.
On top of that, the club is already assured of at least one New Era premiership with the league tag decider an all CSU affair.
"We've all been in this situation before, grand final week, so we're all excited for the weekend, it's a big weekend for the club," Dickinson said.
"It's crazy, I can't believe it. It was something I didn't know we could achieve, it's such a big thing for the club.
"I think it will calm the nerves a little bit being at home, hopefully we can just treat it like another home game. We've got to just try and take it slowly, get that first touch and ease ourselves into the game."
The Mungoes qualified for the decider with a 64-10 major semi-final win over Portland, while the Barbarians took a longer path.
Stripped points for fielding unregistered players, the Barbarians had to beat Lithgow (52-0) and and Portland (44-8) to set up the the grand final meeting with the students.
Dickinson, who guided CSU to a 27-24 win over Orange in the final round of the regular season, said he always expected the premiership to come down to his outfit and the Barbarians.
"I think we've been expecting that for a fair while now. I worked it out the other night, the difference between us across four games this season has been two points, which is just ridiculous," he said.
As for what will be the key to beating the Barbarians on Saturday and claiming CSU's first premiership since 2014, Dickinson says his men must control their nerves early and the Mungoes' pack need to take control.
"I think it just comes down to playing our game. Every time we've executed what we've wanted to do this year, we've run away with a few games," he said.
"Things change in grand finals, but it comes back to playing basic footy and doing what we want to do.
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"We work together well with our forwards and backs. When the forwards are playing well it allows our backs to carve up most teams. If we can do that on the weekend, have our forwards set the platform as usual, I can't see the backs having much trouble out wide.
"We've just got to rely on those forwards to have a bit of maturity and do their job. They are very similar to us, they've got a great forward pack which allows their backs to win them games.
"If we can lock them down in the forwards, that's probably what the game comes down to. If they win that match up in the middle it makes it a lot easier for us backs."
The grand final action commences with the CSU Yellow versus CSU Blue league tag decider at 1.30pm, with the Mungoes and Barbarians to clash from 2.30pm.
