NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is being "quite short-sighted" in ruling out a deal with the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers, according to the party's Wagga candidate.
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"We're in a situation where, by all accounts, we are going to have a minority government," Seb McDonagh said. "We are quite happy to work with the government of the day."
SFF leader Robert Borsak said the party was not ruling a deal in or out.
"The only thing we are definitely ruling out is a deal with the Greens," he said.
Opinion polls have put the Coalition and Labor at 50-50 ahead of the March 23 poll.
University of Sydney politics lecturer Stewart Jackson believes NSW is headed for a minority government, but that the election was "Gladys Berejiklian's to lose".
Professor Jackson does not believe Labor will win enough seats to form majority government.
The Coalition currently has a six-seat buffer, but Labor would need to win 13 seats for a majority because there are seven MPs on the crossbenches: Three Greens, three independents - including Wagga's Joe McGirr - and Shooters Fishers Farmers' Phil Donato.
Ms Berejiklian has also called on Labor leader Michael Daley to rule out a deal with the SFF, but Mr Daley has not laid out a blanket ban.
He has said the party's head office would decide preferences deals on a "seat-by-seat" basis.
A NSW Nationals' spokesman said the party backed Ms Berejiklian's stance.
"These parties aren’t about government, they’re about protest. They can promise the earth knowing they’ll never have to deliver, which makes them unfit to be part of the government. We agree with the Premier’s view that they are not to be trusted to form government," he said.
Greens' candidate for the seat of Wagga Ray Goodlass said his party had already announced it "definitely won't back a Coalition minority government".
Colin Taggart, the Australian Conservatives' candidate for Wagga, said he would back the Coalition, not Labor, if elected.
Member for Wagga Joe McGirr said he would not make any decisions until after the election and would take into account what was best for the state, government and electorate.
