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Australian Super Netball final Sunshine Coast Lightning v NSW Swifts Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Sunday 3pm (NZ time)

Lightning $1.40, Swifts $2.75 Diamonds stars Caitlin Bassett and Kelsey Browne in the off-season and rebuilt their squad.

‘‘The work that she’s done over three years is nothing short of remarkable,’’ Lightning captain Laura Langman said.

Langman knows better than most what makes the 51-year-old Taurua tick, having shared in her triumphs with the Magic, Lightning and Silver Ferns.

‘I just think she’s authentic in everything that she does,’’ Langman said.

‘‘It just comes out in the teams that she involves herself in. She’s very pure.’’

Former Silver Ferns captain and defender Katrina Rore, another member of New Zealand’s World Cup-winning team, praised Taurua for her team-building qualities

‘‘I think Noels just knows how to bring a team together, she knows how to keep them calm under pressure,’’ said Rore, who will play for the Swifts on Sunday.

‘‘She knows how to let them be them and be free under pressure so they can execute a game plan quite well. I feel like she knows how to let a team believe in in itself.’’

Leading Australian players and coaches also admire Taurua, who will will finish up at the Lightning after Sunday’s game, but will continue at the helm of the Silver Ferns for October’s four-match Constellation Cup series against Australia.

‘‘Noeline is so smart, we see it across Sunshine, I’ve seen it at Silver Ferns level as well,’’ Diamonds vicecaptain Liz Watson said.

Swifts coach Briony Akle doesn’t think Sunday’s grand final comes down to a battle of wits with Taurua but described her Lightning counterpart as amazing.

‘‘It’s not necessarily a battle of the coaches, obviously I love watching her coach as well,’’ Akle said.