Fortunately for Michelle Marino she won't have that decision to make at next weekend's Junior State Cup despite having children Tana, Georgia and Maia all in action.

Tana is the beneficiary of having mum's support as she helps manage his team throughout the competition.

"It's always a busy weekend getting around trying to watch all the kids, but we did it last year," she said.

"My husband has to come home for that weekend because he works in Sydney and we really need him here and my mum always comes up as well so we can get around to as many of the kids games as we can."

Marino said her role enabled her to see every one of Tana's matches.

"I always get to see the under 10s because I'm the manager so that's where my role is," she said.

The family affair continues with daughter Georgia in the under-16 team while Maia lines up for the under 14s.

Her two daughters were understanding of the situation and every second year spectating was a bit easier when they play in the same team.

"Obviously I'm with Tana's team so it's near impossible (to see the girls)?when they're playing at the same time."

Marino said one of the main reasons for getting her children into touch football from a young age was due to the life-long nature of the sport.

"I've just always played touch footy all my life, I love it as a sport because it's something you can play lifelong whereas other sports can be harder on the body," she said.

"It's a good social game, it's a team game and the kids have all been playing from a young age for all those reasons. We're lucky here because we've got a really strong Port touch community so it's well organised, lots of good reasons to be playing touch in Port.

"You see at State Cup they play to over 50s whereas in lots of other sports you can't do that. As you get older it just becomes more social."

And what was she looking forward to next weekend when an extra 20,000 people would file into Port Macquarie?

"I'm not going to say the rain," she laughed.