Figuratively it is.

And as they come closer to the big day, the routine will intensify, as though it were

Parramatta before a do-or-die NRL game.

``We'll train on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, have a team talk on Friday and have an early lunch before the game on Saturday,'' said Brett Hughes.

And as with Parramatta's late NRL romantic run this season, sporting fever is growing.

More than 200 spectators should be there to cheer on their team this Saturday.

Brett Hughes? Do-or-die games?

More than 200 equating to the 20,000 fans who packed Parramatta Stadium late in the season?

Romantic run?

Well, Brett Hughes is the bowls co-ordinator at Toongabbie Sports Club, a club that has been struck with lawn-bowls fever, and there has been no more romantic 2009 sporting story than that of the Toongabbie Titans.

The story tells of a club that applied for and was accepted into the NSW Premier League, of an amateur team playing against professional lineups (several of them packed with international and representative players).

``We hoped to win three games,'' said ex country boy Hughes.

The Titans have won six and host the Taren Point Power, one of the wealthy powers, in the final round on Saturday.

If the Titans win, they can finish as high as fourth.

Lose, and they can finish sixth, or miss out altogether.

``A champion team will beat a team of champions,'' said Hughes, borrowing a football truism.

``Taren Point are full of Australian and New Zealand players.

``We'll be big underdogs.

``It's do or die, but we haven't lost a game at home. We beat Raymond Terrace ( the leaders), and they beat Taren Point.

``If we win, we'll get home finals fame.''

Hughes gave a perspective on the Titans' amateurism.

``We budgeted $21,000 running costs for the season; some other clubs would spend that on a couple of players,'' he said.

Hughes said the Titans had worked on the champion-team philosophy.

Brett Pritchard, from Avoca, former NSW player Mick Harry and Gary Wares, back from Queensland, were the experienced core.

``We've built the team around them,'' he said, adding of the trio and himself ``we're all country boys''.

Well, Toongabbie has still got a CWA and some inner-city slickers might still think of the town as the wild west.

Should they win on Saturday with all guns and bowls blazing, the whole town will be talking about the Titan boys.