The 2020 season had been a strong one for the club as the women's side, second grade, and third grade had all made it to a grand final and the hope was 2021 was the first grade outfit's time to shine.

Unfortunately for Beach and the rest of the club, it hasn't turned out that way.

The Roos' first grade side heads to Forbes in this weekend's final round with nothing but pride to play for.

One of the biggest reasons for the struggles is the unprecedented injury crisis the Roos have had to deal with.

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Coach Paul Hausia and many of the players have said it's been unlike anything they've ever experienced as it hasn't just been the sheer number of injuries but also the quality of those who've gone down.

Central West representative Beach was one of the first to head into the casualty ward and his ankle injury in round one required season-ending surgery.

Will Anderson, who had quickly becoming a key figure at hooker, followed while Joe Nash, Pat Wheatley, Hamish Gordon, Will Archer, Sam Gemmell and Charlie Kempston are just some of the others to have spent time on the sidelines.

The constant knocks meant Hausia was unable to pick the same team week-to-week after various players required anything from one week to months of healing.

"It's been very tough," Beach said, having watched from the sideline each week.

"Never in my life have I seen so many injuries for a club and first grade, in particular, it's the quality of blokes who've been injured.

"It was definite first grade players who were going to contribute to, what I would have said at the start of the season, a premiership-winning side.

"Hopefully we can start to build that at the start of next season and I think that's a big possibility."

The Roos have continued to suffer injuries throughout the season and in last weekend's heavy loss to Cowra both Nash and Josh Bass failed to finish the 80 minutes.

It rubbed the salt into the wounds after Cowra had run out 40-3 winners to cap off a particularly abject couple of weeks for the Roos.

"After we finished playing Cowra I was pretty disappointed because we had, honestly, a poor couple of weeks leading up to it," Beach said.

"We only had four or five blokes turn up at first grade training and you can't expect to win matches when you get that kind of commitment so I said to the blokes I'd like to finish the year how we start next year.

"Hopefully that happens because it would be awfully disappointing to go out on a lull, because it can make it hard to gain momentum for next year."

Forbes is set to finish fourth on the ladder and will pose a real challenge at home but the signs have been positive for Roos as there was a full team at training on Tuesday night.

The Roos also have their women's side, and second and third grade outfits on track for finals, keeping the sense of positivity going.

"We had three sides in grand finals last year, two were undefeated, and we lost all of them so it would be great to go one better and get three-from-three," Beach said.

"There will be total support for them from everyone else going into the finals."

First grade kick-off is 3.15pm, Saturday.

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