CSU league tag coach Phil Tuilau is on a mission in 2020 - he wants to not only continue the Mungals' stranglehold on the Mid West League premiership, but help some members of his squad taste grand final success for the first time.
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CSU has won the Mid West league tag premiership every season since the competition's inception and the last two years the grand final has been a battle between the Mungals Blue and Yellow outfits.
This season there is just one CSU league tag side, but as Tuilau points out, there are still returning players who have not laid their hands on a premiership trophy before. He wants that to change.
"There's a lot of girls in the club who have played for CSU but have never won it... they've always been in Oscar's [Thorburn] team," he said.
"Players like Caitlin Treble and other really talented girls have always fallen at the final hurdle. I want to take them to their first premiership."
This Saturday Tuilau is likely to get a better idea of how his side positioned to achieve that when facing Cargo.
Through the first three rounds of the competition not only have CSU and Cargo gone undefeated, but neither have conceded a point.
Cargo is fresh off an 82-0 belting of the Lithgow Bears, while the Mungals celebrated a 54-0 victory over Orange United under lights at Carrington Park last Saturday.
Cargo lock Eb Watson is well aware of the significance of Saturday's meeting but admittedly has limited knowledge on who or what to look out for.
"I've heard a bit about them and I know they're a good side," Watson
"We're excited to have a good, hard game and see if we can stack up against them... hopefully we're good enough to beat them."
While CSU is aiming for another Mid West league tag crown, Cargo hopes to extend a premiership streak of its own, having won back-to-back Woodbridge Cup premierships in 2018-19.
However, Watson said another title is not Cargo's main priority.
"Our main goal coming into the year was to keep our team together so we could go in 2021," she said.
"We worried that if we did have this break, people might go off and play another sport. Most of our core girls stayed and hopefully they'll be back in 2021.
"It would be good to win it, though," she said.
The league tag match at Cargo Oval will kick-off at 1.30pm before the men's sides clash at 2.45pm.
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Jake Humphreys
Sports nut at the Central Western Daily.
Sports nut at the Central Western Daily.
