Port City Leagues Magpies, Port Panthers Pirates and Macquarie Hotel are all out to hit plenty of sixes and get off to a good start in the May Kelly Cup competition in first grade.

All three sides have players who can make a huge impact on the shortened format of the game and take the match away from the opposition in an instant. The Magpies have the likes of Chris Cole and Jesse Schmidt.

Both are due for some runs, according to Pies captain Tim Harris.

"It's been so hard in the last month to score runs with all the rain we've had," Harris said.

He'll bring BJ Schneider up from second grade to have a crack at the opposition. Schneider, who has a fantastic eye, has come across to the club after the demise of Bonny Hills' second-grade side.

Harris said he wouldn't take long to fire up.

"He just goes from ball one," he said.

"Him and Coley would be the two (danger men), and Jesse."

T20 isn't traditionally a bowlers' format, and Harris said the secret to keeping the opponents' score down was rotating the bowlers regularly, and not letting them get settled against one.

"We try to keep changing it up," he said.

Meanwhile, the Pirates have players like Rod Morton, who is also overdue for a big score.

Young-gun Ethan Durbridge predicted Morton's time would come this weekend.

"He'll go off I reckon," Durbridge said of his captain.

"This is his form of the game. He's definitely due for something big."

Macquarie captain Michael Pelley said some of his younger, quicker players would come in handy this weekend.

He said that while he didn't have many out and out big hitters, the blokes who could run plenty of twos would come in handy.

He named players like Paddy and Liam Coelho and Ryan O'Donnell as the keys.

"Hopefully in the middle overs they ran run them [the opposition] around," he said.

Tomorrow's matches won't be under lights. Those games start on January 8.

Second grade will play for the Brett Border Shield while thirds will do battle for an as yet un-named trophy starting tomorrow.