And the Crows supporters will be hoping history repeats on the scoreboard this year.

Beaufort won both of those Lexton Football League deciders before moving into the Ballarat competition in 1966.

Playing coach Adrian Beer will lead the reserves team into battle this weekend against a Buninyong outfit it beat to break a 50-year premiership drought in 2015.

Beer is one of six players in the current squad that played in that success. Also present is Ash George, James Blackburn, Blake Lofts, Seean Broadbent and Tom McWilliam.

The Beaufort boys have strung together some good form in recent weeks to reach the grand final from fifth position at the end of the home and away rounds.

Beer said his side was underdogs to win the game against a Buninyong team that finished on top of the table.

But he feels there might be more pressure on the Bombers, which have lost the past two deciders.

Beer said it would “mean the world” to lift the cup once again.

“I think our last 8-10 weeks of football that we have put together, we know we can sort of match it,” Beer, a past reserves league best and fairest winner, said.

Onballers Blair Hart and Steven Lodge, key forward Scott Howard and the defensive six are among those that will need to play well for the Crows to reverse the round four loss to the Bombers.

On that occasion, Buninyong got home by nine points.

Bombers coach Clinton Palmer said the past two grand final defeats have been spoken about within the group.

“There would be half of the side that would have played in the last two,” he said.

“It’s something we have touched on, but not over and over…

“Hopefully this year we can turn it around after the last two years of being there and not winning.”

Veteran Mark Phelps is one player from the senior side that has slotted back into the reserves for the grand final and will be an important figure along with ruckman Phil Benn and onballers Josh Mann and Pat Lannen.

Buninyong has won nine reserves premierships since the CHFL was launched in 1979.