North Queensland Cowboys walk in legends' footsteps at SCG Sharks captain Paul Gallen and Cowboys skipper Matt Scott ready for Saturday's NRL finals double-header. IT is the room that has housed Australian cricket icons such as Sir Don Bradman, Allan Border and Steve Waugh. And on Saturday, Cowboys players will walk in the footsteps of legends, with the Sydney Cricket Ground dressing room to provide a hallowed sanctuary ahead of their finals showdown with Cronulla. With Allianz Stadium to host four teams in a finals double-header, the NRL has called on the locker-room facilities of the nearby SCG to accommodate Cowboys players. The move initially created some angst, but the sense of nostalgia is not lost on the Cowboys as they prepare for battle from the nerve centre that is Australian cricket's inner-sanctum. When champion Cowboys playmaker Johnathan Thurston warms up Saturday, he will do so just metres from a locker emblazoned with the name of current Test skipper Michael Clarke. Other cricketing luminaries have graced the same area, from Bradman and Border to the likes of Shane Warne, Dennis Lillee and Ricky Ponting. In the main room overlooking the Members, Cowboys players will see honour boards trumpeting the Test stars who have scored a century or taken five-wickets in an innings at the famous ground. Just before kick-off at Allianz, Thurston and his Cowboys cohorts will then warm-up on the SCG turf, where Waugh famously thumped a career-saving 102 in the Ashes of 2003. Cowboys high-performance chief Paul Bowman has visited the SCG rooms before and says the sacred environs are unlike anything witnessed in traditional NRL dressing-sheds. "It's definitely got that special feel to it," said Bowman, the former Queensland Origin centre. You see all the great names on the lockers and the honour board. You see images of the old (SCG) scoreboard in there, there's Bradman signs ... the great achievements are up on the board so for everyone who knows cricket, it is pretty special. It's the same dressing-sheds the Australian cricketers have used over the years. You come out onto a little verandah, down past the members seats and then onto the field. We'll warm-up on the SCG and then leave a minute or two earlier to walk over to the SFS (Allianz). At half-time we're back in the SFS sheds and then after the game we'll return to the SCG. The way our young guys play cricket, I don't think some of them know what the SCG is, but to the older guys who know cricket and have played it, it will be a good experience in there. In a boost for the Cowboys, key prop Matt Scott is almost certain to play, with the Maroons enforcer successfully testing his broken finger at training in Townsville on Thursday. The resurgent Cowboys are eyeing a seventh consecutive win and Thurston warned the Sharks and NRL finals rivals they don't intend to go out the back door. "The boys have come a long way in six weeks and we have been working extremely hard," he said. We are not here to make up the numbers, we are going down with the mindset of winning and no doubt it will be tough ask against the Sharks. It looks like 'Thumper' (Scott) will be playing that is a big plus for us, he gives us some intimidation factor upfront with Jimmy Tamou.