Gundagai looking to build into big finish

The Tigers are once more on a collision course with Tumut at Anzac Park in the final round of the regular to determine who takes out the minor premiership.

The two arch rivals and Brothers are the only three sides in contention with two rounds remaining.

Coming off a 38-0 win over Southcity at Anzac Park on Sunday, Gundagai sit on top of the Group Nine ladder and are yet to taste defeat.

However Tumut are only behind on for and against, after the two teams played out a draw to start the season, while Brothers, who tackle the Blues on Sunday, are a point adrift coming off the bye.

Stand-in captain James Luff admitted last year's dramatic exit, after going down in consecutive finals thrillers, has the Tigers out to go better.

"It reminds us of what not to do," Luff said.

"Hopefully we can learn from that and a lot of the blokes are here from last year and we don't want to be making the same mistakes.

"We want to be firing and there is a real fire in the belly to get a premiership this year and we will try everything we can to get that."

Gundagai have been guilty of drifting in and out of contests so far this season.

However Luff was thrilled by how the team put the Bulls to the sword.

"It was a great performance so you've got to be pretty happy with it," he said.

"They are probably a little under strength but they are still the team of old as they have the same nucleolus there that has done a lot in the past so to hold them to nil and put a score on them like that was pretty convincing.

"It was good to get an 80-minute performance as we haven't done that in a long time. We're a pretty good first half side but the second half has been a bit lacklustre but we were fairly dominant for the whole game."

Mathew Lyons got his side on the board after scoring from dummy half after 18 minutes.

Derek Hay then got a lovely offload away for Aisea Taholo to score with 11 minutes left in the half before Gundagai took a 14-0 lead into the break as Tyron Gorman scored off a short side scrum move a minute before the break.

Southcity had few chances to score in the second half as the Tigers continued their roll.

Gorman put them further in front when he stepped through the line to score with 27 minutes to play as the floodgates started to open.

The Bulls didn't touch the ball before former junior Lyons crossed for his second before another set of back-to-back tries to Dane O'Hehir and Damian Willis completed the victory.

Jake Hay put Willis over in his first grade debut.

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