NORTH Wagga wants to get back to playing its own style of football when it hosts Farrer League battler Charles Sturt University on Saturdya.
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Saints coach Nathan Dowdle admits his team got caught out against reigning premier Temora in round one when the Kangaroos won by 20 points at Nixon Park.
"We want to run the ball more," Dowdle said.
"Temora choked us a bit and I wasn't too happy with the way we moved the ball around.
"We need to get moving and try to play our own style of footy that we do so well, that's what I want to see this weekend."
Dowdle took plenty of positives out of last week's loss but says the Saints have plenty of work to do between now and September.
They have the ideal chance to put that into practice against the Bushpigs.
CSU has endured a horror off-season and is coming off a 174-point thumping at the hands of East Wagga-Kooringal.
"We need to get moving and try to play our own style of footy that we do so well, that's what I want to see this weekend."
- Nathan Dowdle
Dowdle isn't going to read too much into the Pigs' form.
"I was speaking to (Brett) Garrett and he said they have lost a few players," Dowdle said.
"But I'm not too worried about that.
"We can only worry about what we're doing and we will be full steam ahead."
North Wagga is set to lose captain Aaron Guymer and midfield-utility Mitch Mullins to unavailability for the round two game.
Dowdle is tossing up between "six to eight blokes" who are in line to be promoted from reserve grade.
He plans to bring in a running midfielder to specifically replace Mullins in the onball rotation.
CSU, meantime, is still sweating on the fitness of gun forward Clint Shields who badly split his finger open during the round one loss.
If Shields does line up, Dowdle plans to give Alex Hay the job on him.