Rugby
The rival coaches are playing it cool leading into Saturday's Tui Cup premier division rugby grand final at Memorial Park in Masterton.
Tony Lyford (Greytown) and Wayne Roache (Eketahuna) are refusing to buy into the debate that the game will pit the physicality of the Eketahuna forwards against the brilliance of the Greytown backs.
Lyford concedes that Eketahuna's main attribute is the mobility and ruggedness of a pack spearheaded by the highly-regarded loose trio of Johan van Vliet, Joss Tua-Davidson and Rupeni Tamani but he is quick to suggest they will have nothing on a Greytown eight which is so strong in the loose forward department that proven No8 Nathan Ito will be at lock. This will allow Kahn Fruean-Walker and Tana Isaac to start on the flanks and Rihi Brown at No8.
"Our loosies will lose nothing in comparison to theirs," Lyford said. "They have all been in great form; we don't have any worries about them at all."