RUGBY captain Jordan Moran admits he's unlikely to skipper his side next season so a win over Macquarie this weekend would be a pleasing personal reward as well as an outstanding achievement for his side.
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The men in sky blue were disappointing in last season's decider as they were beaten by RSL-Colts within a day but have bounced back in the best possible way this season by only losing two matches on their run to the grand final.
They now meet the in-form Blues at No.1 Oval this weekend and Moran said he would love the chance to lead his side to premiership glory.
"It would be good and obviously after missing out last year it would be nice to finish this chapter on a high," he said.
"I obviously don't feel this is the end of my captaincy career, I might just have two or three years off with a few other things happening."
Moran admits having a young son, his work as a school teacher and his junior cricket coaching takes up a lot of time and attention and will be keen to help and mentor someone else in the Rugby line-up as captain next season but before then the focus is fully on the final with Macquarie and the powerful left-handed batsman says there is a positive mood in his side.
"It's been pretty laid back, we had a hit on Tuesday and a little run on Thursday," he said.
"We're confident in our own ability, we know we're going to get a tough game from Macquarie and they're going to score runs so we just know we've got to score more than them."
Moran believes the balance in his side will go along way to winning them the title, with batsmen such as himself, Mitch Bower and Nathan Munro supported well by a bowling attack including Ben Patterson, Ben Taylor and leg-spinner Adrian Carey.
"It's a tough one, it's going to come down to two things for us," he said.
"We need to have wickets in hand so we can use those blokes in the lower order to the best of their ability and probably more importantly we need to bowl to our strict plans that we have for different blokes and if we execute those plans we should be able to restrict them enough."
Moran said while the rain this week may affect some playing time, he doubted it would affect the pitch and standard of play too much and fully expected batsman to be able to score runs.
"Even though there has been some rain I don't think it's going to a 120-100 match, I think the scores are going to be up around 200," he said.
With Rugby in all three grand finals this weekend Moran said a hat-trick of titles would perfectly cap off an already hugely successful season.
"It would be a huge achievement if one side could get up but we're aiming for all three and it would be a great reward for all the hard work put in by blokes like Al Horrocks and Pat Moses on the executive board," he said.