Preparing for one grand final day is stressful enough.

Doing it all over again is really testing.

Obviously the players, coaches and referees of the Carlton League are the central characters but there are many others involved in making it all run smoothly.

Or as smoothly as it seems on the surface.

With seven clubs involved in four grand finals, they've all got a chance of doing what everyone who starts the season wants to do.

And that's to get to a grand final, then go one better and win one.

Come last Sunday morning - an extremely windy last Sunday morning after gale-force winds blew up through the night - everything and everyone were ready and raring to go.

That is until people started arriving at WIN Stadium before the kick-off of the under 18 grand final between Shellharbour Gold and Thirroul scheduled for 10.15am.

A big security guy at the gate basically said, "You can't come in. It's too dangerous. There's loose iron on the roof, there's debris strewn across the field. The day's been called off.

"They're over at the club."

Meaning the Illawarra Division Rugby League (IDRL) management committee was meeting at the Steelers.

Well, that was last Sunday.

Now it's all systems go again for the postponed Illawarra Carlton League grand final day to be held at WIN Stadium on Sunday.

An enormous amount of preparation and planning goes into grand final day.

Here we go again.

"After having to transfer the grand final, it was just far too dangerous to put it on [last Sunday]," IDRL district administrator Julie Nicoll said.

"It's going to disrupt a lot of things. People have planned holidays, trips away. It can't be helped.

"It's not going to please everybody because I know there are players who had trips away planned.

"Even one of our referees had to change her planned flight because she was going away to Queensland.

"It's caused chaos across the board, so we have to do the best we can."

"The weather is one thing I can't control.

"At this stage it hasn't been ideal but on the flip side at least some of those niggling injuries will have more time to heal too," Nicoll added.

"So there's good and bad."

While the original promotion may have taken a bit of a battering, the traditional resilience that has typified rugby league for more than a century will guarantee that this will be a great day.

Given that the weather gods shine favourably.

No-one wants Groundhog Day all over again.