Riverside will remember one of the finest moments in the club's history as it looks to reach the Greater Northern Cup final for the first time in five years.
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Sunday's home semi-final against Westbury will double as the 40-year reunion for the club's triple premiership year of 1980-81, when they beat the Shamrocks in first and second grade and South Launceston in third grade.
The Blues have not won Cricket North's top prize since, but veteran all-rounder Patty Mackrell is confident the floodgates are about to open.
"[The triple premiership] is quite well-known in our club - it's a proud time in our history and it's something every club's keen to replicate," Mackrell said.
"We haven't been able to do it in the past, but we feel in a position where we're a club on the up and we'll keep developing.
"It's going to be terrific playing in front of those guys - there's a lot of guys there who have played state cricket as well so we want to put a good performance in for them and let our cricket do the talking this week."
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Former president Peter Scott - who took three wickets in the 80-81 first grade final - will be among those returning to the club on Sunday.
The off-spinner recalled the atmosphere in which Riverside rose to the top of a star-studded NTCA competition.
"It was a fantastic feeling, the team generated so much confidence in each other - there were a lot of big personalities and tremendous cricketers," Scott said.
"Back in the early '80s too the competition was extremely strong. Every side had current state players and past state players - everyone had a mad quick and Mowbray had five of them.
"The majority of the state team was made up of NTCA cricketers at the time."
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The first grade final proved a one-sided affair as Riverside posted 325 before knocking the Shamrocks over for 166.
Opener Jeff Garwood (86) and skipper Steve Howard (78) both raised their bats for the Blues while Bill Kirkman and coach Tony Benneworth chimed in with three wickets apiece.
"Steve Howard was a tremendous state player and probably the best batsman the club's produced along with Nick Courtney, and it was tremendous leadership from Steve," Scott said.
"As a young fella coming through at the time with Bill Kirkman, Brendan Johncock and Richard Woolley, there was a good mix of youth and experience and really solid players like Jeff Garwood who would bind the side together.
"It was played hard but it was played in really good spirit and that was the way we went about it."
Scott encouraged all past Blues players to pile into Windsor Park when the first ball is bowled at 10.30am on Sunday.
"What the past players want to do is we want to is get out here and support the current group," he said.
"We want them to make their own history now and that's what we're all about."