READY: The Warwick Water Rats women (back, from left) Shayne Hayes, Jaylee Pitt, Lisa Croft, Tiffany Cullen, Tshinta Kendall, Keeley Mooney, Jayde Ware, Emily Byrne, Mariah Mooney, (front) coach Lauren Fowler, Sam Burton, Kirra Dennison, Eloise Wiles, Emily Ranger, Juliette Cronin and Leanne Brown at a home game.
READY: The Warwick Water Rats women (back, from left) Shayne Hayes, Jaylee Pitt, Lisa Croft, Tiffany Cullen, Tshinta Kendall, Keeley Mooney, Jayde Ware, Emily Byrne, Mariah Mooney, (front) coach Lauren Fowler, Sam Burton, Kirra Dennison, Eloise Wiles, Emily Ranger, Juliette Cronin and Leanne Brown at a home game. Gerard Walsh

Finals showdown for our rugby women

RUGBY UNION: The Warwick Water Rats women are 14 minutes away from securing the club's first grand final spot in more than a decade.

Coach Lauren Fowler and her team will play Dalby in the women's sevens qualifying final at 12.45pm Saturday at Clive Berghofer Stadium (athletic oval).

The winner will play Bears in the grand final at 2.45pm.

"I am confident, absolutely, we can beat Dalby,” Fowler said.

"But we must turn up ready to play and go hard in the first seven minutes.”

If Warwick wins, Fowler said it would be important to shut down the Bears runners early in the grand final over 10-minute halves.

"Bears have got a lot of runners,” she said.

The Water Rats coach is not complaining about playing in the qualifying final.

"The early game will give both teams the chance to get rid of some nerves,” she said.

"The team which wins the first game will have an advantage in the final.”

Fowler has named a squad of 15 and won't make a decision on the 12 until grand final day.

"We have some players unavailable,” she said.

SATURDAY'S PROGRAM: 11.20am C grade men Chinchilla v Goondiwindi; 12.45pm women's Warwick v Dalby; B grade men 1.10pm Rangers v Dalby, 2.45pm women's Bears v winner Warwick/Dalby; 3.30pm A grade men Dalby v Goondiwindi.

TEAM: Tiff Cullen, Shayne Hayes, Emily Ranger, Kirra Dennison, Emily Byrne, Keeley Mooney, Mariah Mooney, Jayde Ware, Lisa Croft, Sam Burton, Juliette Cronin, Tshinta Kendall, Kathleen Keogh, Eloise Wiles, Leanne Brown.



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