Netball: Cavaliers, Hawks ready for key showdown

The Hawks won the July 25 battle and are yet to be defeated, positioning them atop the TNL ladder but the Cavaliers were victorious in the 2019 grand final war, which can't be forgotten.

The reigning premiers have been hit by injuries to Shelby Miller, Zoe Claridge, Hayley McDougall and Piper Sanders in the past few weeks but director of coaching Dannie Carstens is confident they'll be ready to get back on the court.

"They're hopefully all going to be cleared for this weekend and hopefully going to be at full strength," she said.

"The beauty of our club is that we've got such strong 19s as well that we call upon and fill any voids that there might be."

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Identifying champion shooter Ashlea Mawer, who has scored more than 1000 points in each of the last three seasons, as the Hawks' main danger, Carstens said the Cavaliers will be attempting to stop her.

"The biggest thing around Hawks is basically stopping the supply to their big, tall shooter.

"I think if you shut their centre court down and Danni Pickett in the goal attack role, who feeds very nicely to Ash, I think that's certainly the key to breaking their measure."

While the Cavaliers look to pull off a game plan tailor-made for the Hawks, Ruth Tuohy and Kellie Woolnough's players are more than happy to continue doing what works following two strong wins last weekend.

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"We are particularly happy coming off the back of a weekend where we had a consistent game plan and playing each quarter at 15 minutes at the intensity and focus that we wanted to," Tuohy said.

"We believe that sticking to that particular game plan is giving us our winning connections at the moment, so we are more concentrating on executing that consistently - we think that's enough at the moment to provide us what we need to get the win."

Tuohy believes her players are rested and recovered for the key Silverdome contest, which gets underway at 8pm on Friday night.