THERE’S plenty of punters around the traps marvelling at the fact Canowindra found a way to win through to Saturday’s GrainCorp Cup Southern division grand final.

Not Blayney player-coach Brock Syphers though.

He predicted the Pythons as grand finalists weeks ago, prior to the start of the finals, long before his Rams earned the right to host Saturday’s decider at King George Oval.

“Yeah I did, so I’m not surprised at all,” he laughed.

“We’re definitely wary of them, I think we’d be silly not to be. They’re a tough side, a good side.”

Syphers refused to label his side confident despite the fact his Rams are undefeated in 2015 and trumped the giant killing Pythons twice during the regular season, 38-7 and 25-5 respectively.

Blayney has been burned by overconfidence before.

Blayney lost in the 2013 decider to Molong after going through undefeated, and were beaten by the Magpies again last year, in the dying seconds of the grand final

“I wouldn’t say confident at all, we know what it’s like to go through the season undefeated and then lose the grand final,” Syphers explained.

“We probably should’ve won the grand final last year as well and didn’t but I don’t think there’d be too many nerves around the guys.

“A lot of us have been to this stage before and know what it’s about and we trained really well on Monday night.”

Syphers did say a big crowd at King George Oval would favour the Rams, as would the predicted dry weather.

“I think a dry track would suit us, and considering Canowindra isn’t that far to come to Blayney I think we might get one of the bigger crowds we’ve seen in this competition,” Syphers said.