Last season's Whitney Cup runners-up have lost two on the trot and last week spent all of day one of their clash with Macquarie in the field as a Jason Green-inspired Blues side piled on 7-273.

The recent results have seen Newtown lose pace with the competition's top three and captain Mat Skinner is well aware it's now the business end of the season.

"If we get a win we'll be right up there in the pack but if we lose we're going to give Macquarie a bit of air and we don't want to do that," he said.

"We need one of our top four to go on with it, we can't get in and then throw it away.

"One of the top four needs to go on and make a ton."

Macquarie succeeded last week when one of their batsmen, Green, spent a long period at the crease and went on to make a century.

He finished unbeaten on 128 and Skinner will be looking to the likes of himself, brother Steve, Wayne Dunlop or Dan Holland to do that job on Saturday.

While it was Green and batsmen Newtown focused on last week, this time out it will be the in-form Blues' bowlers who the Tigers will be worried about.

New ball bowlers Jeremy Dickson and Ben Taylor have been outstanding this season and are currently the form new ball pairing in the competition.

Taylor has taken wickets in every innings he's bowled up to this point while Dickson has only gone wicketless once but Skinner said there's far more to their attack than the two quicks.

"I think they've got one of the best attacks in the competition," he said.

"They've got four good seamers and two good spinners so you can't fault any of them in that six.

"They've got plenty of variation but we just need to execute our own plans and make sure we put that bad ball away."

Dickson, Taylor, Mitch Williams-Hedges and Angus Cusack were the quicks Skinner was referring to while Dan Medway and Brad Johnson will provide the slow bowling options.

While disappointed in his side's recent form and admitting some of his side's top order is struggling for form, Skinner did confess it's reassuring they're still so close to the top three.

A win against Macquarie followed by victories against Souths and CYMS in the final two rounds will all but seal a top three spot and that is the aim from here on out for the Tigers.

"It's good to know that we can still play better and that we're still within third spot," Skinner said.

"It's been a bit disappointing that a couple of games we should have won we've let slip so hopefully we can pick up a couple of wins form the last couple games and finish strongly."

The action at No.1 Oval begins at 1pm.