Mal Meninga is one win away from taking what he regards as the best Queensland side in history to an unprecedented seventh straight series win.
But he doubts the unthinkable coaching feat will help hoist him into rugby league's list of Immortals later this year.
Meninga's wonderful playing and coaching record at Origin and Test level speak for themselves.
He retired with three premierships with Canberra and the points record holder for Test and Origin football yet he openly admits he is unlikely to become the eighth Immortal.
Not that it worries him.
He rates being inducted into the rugby league Hall of Fame a far greater honour than joining Clive Churchill, Bob Fulton, Reg Gasnier, Johnny Raper, Graeme Langlands, Wally Lewis and Artie Beetson as an Immortal.
"I haven't got a great reputation with the media and they are the ones who select it so I am not very confident," said Meninga.
"(But) .. I actually hold the Hall of Fame as more important. That's me.
"It goes through such a rigorous process. All walks of rugby league people get involved in that whether it be your peers or current players or media or past or current administration.
"It goes through a three tiered process. To be part of that I think holds more (credibility) but that is my personal opinion.
"I won't lose any sleep if I am not the eighth Immortal."
Seven-time premiership-winning coach Wayne Bennett and ARL Commission chairman John Grant are the only members of the 13-strong Immortal judging panel not from a media background.
Meninga has already been inducted into both the Australian and international rugby league Hall of Fame.
He and former Newcastle playmaker Andrew Johns have emerged as the favourites to be handed Immortal status, along with St George legend Norm Provan and Kangaroos great Ron Coote.
Meninga would be forgiven for backing himself to stand aside Churchill, Gasnier, Raper, Fulton, Lewis, Langlands and his beloved mentor Beetson when it is announced during NRL grand final week.
Apart from his 166 games and three premierships with the Raiders, despite breaking his arm twice, Meninga played 32 Origins, including the first game in 1980 on his 20th birthday and 46 Tests - a record only recently broken by Darren Lockyer.
Meninga did it all on the field.
Somehow he has arguably surpassed that as a coach with the current Queensland side, who can seal seven straight series wins in Sydney on Wednesday night.
"It's the best," Meninga said of his team.
"To win six in a row and be on the brink of seven, you can't compare with that.
"We had some good sides through the late 80s and early 90s.
"It's difficult to compare them but this side is enormous. They deserve all the accolades that they get."
Front-rower Matt Scott, who has been with his ill mother this week, joined the Maroons in camp at Coolum on Thursday and trained along with Ashley Harrison who entered camp with a minor groin injury.
Forward Dave Taylor trained with his head bandaged at Coolum on Thursday to protect stitches above his left eye that were required when he fell out of his bed on Monday night.
