THEY both love a chat, but either local cafe owner Frank Bresnik or Queanbeyan's butcher in chief, Peter Lindbeck, will be left speechless following the NRL grand final on Sunday.
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Lindbeck is talking the best game ahead of the match, and he's supremely confident his Bulldogs side can get the job done. But then again, he still owes Bresnik five lotto tickets from last time the two sides went head to head and the Rabbitohs triumphed.
"We'll probably have to make it double or nothing," Lindbeck laughed.
"But this is the sort of game that should suit the Bulldogs right down to the ground ... I'm sure we'll give it to them dirty, stinking Rabbitohs," he said.
Bresnik is a much more nervous fan. Ideally, he won't even be watching the game with other people in the room on Sunday so that he can maintain a high state of alertness.
"Everyone's expecting the Souths' forwards to power through the Bulldogs, but the Bulldogs forwards are no easy beats," Bresnik said.
"Out of all the sides we would have wanted to play in the grand final, Bulldogs are probably the one we want to play the least."
Like all Souths fans, Bresnik is hoping the young Rabbitohs side can end a 43-year premiership drought and win their first flag since 1971. But Lindbeck reckons the pressure of that will prove too much.
"The air of expectation for the Rabbitohs will be too great. They've got all those young blokes out there, and we've got warriors," he said.
"It may be a tad niggly, a bit in your face, but that's how they play it.
"I'd say they'll [the Bulldogs] turn it into a battle of the forwards, because they're a bit too strong for us in the backs. So I'm sure the mad Desy Hassler with his fancy hair-do will be concentrating on flogging the guts out of them in the forwards. That's what I'd be doing."
Both men have supported their respective teams since they were young boys, although Lindbeck confesses he also has a soft spot for the Raiders as the local side.
Bresnik told The Queanbeyan Age he supported Souths because they summed up the "spirit of the people."
"Souths is about the passion of the game, the spirit of the people, the battlers versus the corporate goliaths," he said.
While for Lindbeck, the Bulldogs are the competition's family club.
"It's always been about family really," he said. "Ever since the Hughes and the Mortimers, it's always been the family club, and that's why I'd say they've signed up those three Mata'utia brothers from Newcastle, to keep that family tradition alive."
