While the team also made last year's grand final, this year the team has developed greater understanding of the structural processes of the game, he says.

The previous grand final experience will also stand the side in good stead for this year's showdown, with many of the same players from last year backing up for the match, along with a few newcomers.

Their greater grasp of the technical side of the game should help the side this time around.

The team has had to overcome a couple of hiccups during the season, losing players though injury and other causes.

However things have worked out okay for the side, since it started the year with too many girls keen to play and ended the season with just the right number.

"The girls have done really well this year," the coach says.

"I'm proud of the way they have competed and they deserve to be in the grand final."

The competition has been close all year, Ison says, and although the Forster side has been the benchmark team, Wauchope has managed to beat them twice during the competition.

"So it should be a good game on the weekend," he says.

All the players have been involved in the team's marked improvement in skill levels and technical know-how over the year, Ison says, although when pressed he named half-back Anna Lewis as one player who stood out in the side.

But the reason for the side's success is that it is a really good team, overall.

Ison says he has been telling the team through the year that they are the best team in the competition. A few of the other teams have some really good individual players, but their other players don't pull their weight in the game.

In the Wauchope Blues Ladies Tag side, all the players contribute strongly to achieve good result for the side.