On Sunday, Ngāti Porou East Coast will host the provincial Heartland Championship Lochore Cup final final against Mid Canterbury.
Whakarua Park in Ruatoria is expected to come alive to support a team who have come good - only a year after they ended a losing streak of more than FIFTY, five-zero, games.
Cushla Tangaere-Manuel is a former long-serving chief executive at the tiny Union.
He spoke to Corin Dann.
