More than three decades left waiting in the wings, the all-Launceston State League grand final is promising to be a contest for the ages.
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Northern Hawks co-coach Ruth Tuohy and Cavaliers club coach Dannie Carstens are rapt a derby will decide the season's showpiece.
Records of the Tasmania's premier netball competition dates back to 1987. But with Hawks winning a second title in 2018, the crosstown rivals of more than two decades have never met in the year's last game until Saturday.
"It just shows the depth of the players that are now coming through," Tuohy said.
"Potentially, we get lucky in some sense that players come to Launceston for uni and those things, but a lot of the players have been around through grassroots netball.
"It's great to have the two Launceston teams playing."
The match-up ends the stranglehold of AYC-Friends Arrows every year from 2014.
"The supporters of netball in the North, which there is plenty, they will get to see a lot of players that they know now play," she said.
"There's a lot of friends between teams and clubs that are close away from commitments of the State League."
That comes from breaking the drought after Dominant Northerners won in 1996.
"We came off a great season last year, but we want to push ourselves, make sure it wasn't a once off," she said.
It may play into the hands of Cavaliers, Tuohy admits.
"But I do think the atmosphere that will be created from that will be great. It's hard when we have travelled down to Hobart and you only get the really dedicated supporters with family and friends there," she said.
"This is going to be a massive game of noise when you get momentum swings and the crowd behind you."
Cavaliers return for their first grand final in four years.
Only Shelby Miller and Dana Lester played in that defeat to Arrows that could ensure the lack of experience negates the loss of any Hawks' home-court advantage.
"It has been a bit of a long build-up for us. We have had such a successful history as the club that has the most premierships out of anyone in the state," Carstens said.
"So to have that gap or lull between 2015 until now where we really had to rebuild, this is really exciting to get back in the main game."
Cavaliers have claimed seven opens titles and the 19-and-unders another 10.
Both Cavs sides will play back-to-back grand finals for the first time also since 2015.
The Hawks just missed out ensuring a unique double after a preliminary final loss.
"It's good to have one North team in, but to have two because it's never been done before gives a great build-up and feel to it. It's a real credit to what we're all doing in the North," she said.