"A good way to go about is getting away from that mentality and playing cricket the way we play it," he said.

"I'm pretty confident with the way we've really taken this season into our own hands and taken responsibility for our own and been a bit more selfish within our own game.

"If we head out with that mentality, knowing that we can win and move away from that mentality that Parkes does have that fortress, then we'll win."

With the side only narrowly losing to Bowling Club the week before, McNaught said he was happy with where the side was sitting.

"It really could have gone either way there, it easily could have been a win for us," he said.

"But Bowling Club dug deep and full credit to them. I was really happy with the way our boys represented ourselves and went about it.

"Generally we've gone out in the past thinking we need to chase totals quickly.

"I think we sort of moved away from that and said, 'let's dig deep here, stick to our guns and play some genuine cricket'."

McNaught praised the performance of his younger players and encouraged them to keep playing well.

"I said after the game I was really happy with the juniors, Mitch Amos bowled exceptionally well, same with young Cracker McFarland and Darcy Callaghan," he said..

"I want those boys to better themselves as cricketers and put their names out there."

He also had praise for his senior players, saying it had been fantastic to see their performance as well.

"It's the same with our senior blokes, it was good to see Sam get some runs because he does have that talent, he's just been a bit unlucky this year," he said.

"He's been working hard and he really wants to better his game.

"In seasons before he hasn't been an opening batsman, he's really concentrated on his bowling and it's at a pretty good place at the moment.

"So we've moved onto batting and he's really proved himself to be at the top of the order and make some runs."

McNaught said he was excited for the games leading up to the Christmas break.

"The goal is three from three but I've said I'm happy with the way everyone is moving along," he said.

"As long as we're learning stuff and bettering ourselves I'm happy with that."

Bowling Club second grade captain, Paul Basham, is hoping his side can return to winning form this weekend.

Bowling Club will face Morongla, the only side they've beaten this year, at Holman oval.

"We haven't had much luck in recent weeks and they're the only team we have a win over," Basham said.

"So I hope we can to the same and get back on the right track."

He said batting would be a focus for the side this weekend.

"It's the same story, our batting, I don't know what happened last week but no one scored any runs. I got 51 and the next highest score for us was eight.

"Our bowling and fielding haven't been too bad, it's just the batting we need to get together."

Basham said he was confident in his side's abilities.

"I know what we are capable of and we've got more than enough talent in the players we have," he said.

"It's just a matter of people not finding their form as of yet. We'll just look at this week and try and get a win.

"Then if we can get another win in the last couple of games that will help us out a bit and get the boys confidence up a bit."

With Valleys' second grade side remaining undefeated this season, captain Tom Lamond is aiming to keep a clean scorecard until the Christmas break.

"At the moment we're five or six wins, a washout and a draw so we haven't lost a game yet," he said.

"That's our goal for Christmas, not to go into the break with a loss, so we'll work hard towards that."

Valleys will kick off that streak when they face Grenfell this weekend at Twigg Oval and Lamond said it should be an interesting game.

"It's always a close game against these guys," he said.

"The last two grand finals have been against these guys, and the biggest thing with Grenfell is early wickets.

"If we get their top three or four batters out for less than 20 each, then that's a big thing for us.

"I've found if we let them get a good roll on early, then they put on a pretty big score against us."

Lamond said he was backing his players to but in strong performances.

"Our batting has gotten better and better each week with our top four or five batsmen," he said.

"Lately two or three have fired, hopefully we can get four or five of them to fire this week and everyone can score some runs.

"On the bowling side of things, everyone has bowled really well and that's been our big thing this year."

He said he would be focusing on fielding this week, with a few choices making things harder on the side.

"Fielding is our big thing, last week we missed a few chances that could have turned their (Burrangong Bears) 130 into 80 or 90, a few bad fielding mistakes," he said.

"That's the only thing we can really work on at the moment to improve it a bit more."