Wollongong lord mayoral front-runner Gordon Bradbery says he is expecting more "smear" to be directed at him in the final week before Saturday's election.Mr Bradbery was responding to Liberal mayoral candidate John Dorahy, who said the former clergyman was sticking to a "small target strategy" of "motherhood statements" as he vies for the city's top job.Mr Bradbery's campaign has taken him to the front-runner's position for the mayoral office, as revealed in an exclusive Mercury-IRIS poll on Saturday that showed Mr Bradbery receiving 38 per cent of primary votes, ahead of Mr Dorahy on 23 per cent and Labor's Chris Connor on 16 per cent.On a two-candidate preferred basis, Mr Bradbery would win with 61 per cent to Mr Dorahy's 31 per cent.Yesterday, Mr Dorahy said he was not surprised at the result."There are certainly strong sentiments towards the reverend," he said. "But what I find with it is Gordon ... is running a small-target campaign, whereas I'm running a big-target campaign on this occasion, as opposed to the state election."I'm certainly making sure I'm out there seeing the people, and talking about the issues that really do concern them - not just the other motherhood statements that come about by being compassionate and tender and looking after people in the way that the reverend does."Mr Bradbery said he expected this kind of criticism."There's going to be a lot of smear and nonsense chucked about in this week," he said. "They're all going to try it; I can anticipate it now. It's all right for John, but I'm not a person who comes out with nonsensical cliches and promises one can't uphold."These guys need to remember they're dealing with local government, not state and federal government issues."Mr Connor said he would spend the week meeting as many people as possible and knocking on doors to try and rein in the frontrunners."It's going to be up to the voters - from those conversations with the individual people I'm [seeing]," the ALP candidate added.