The experienced Wanderers goalkeeper has been with the club from the start and has ridden the rollercoaster to the club's maiden finals campaign.

Wagga City will get their first taste of finals when they take on Queanbeyan in the NPL Two semi-final at Deakin Stadium on Sunday at 4pm.

Fry certainly is not underplaying the significance of the occasion for the club.

"It's massive. We're a pretty young club and this is the first time that we've made finals," Fry said.

"It's a benchmark that we set to get ourselves to get to at some point so it's nice to be doing it with the squad that we've got.

"In particular to be able to do it with so many lads that have come through the youth system, it's the first year that we haven't got any imports in, and to be able to do it with so many young blokes that have come through it's just a testament to what the club is set up for, to give those young guys a chance.

"For this to be the most successful season and to be doing it with them, it's special."

Fry has no complaints about the path taken to reach this point. It involved a number of big losses while playing in Sydney, and at times a tough initiation in Canberra, but he says it makes him more appreciative of a finals appearance.

"I think it's more, it gives it context. It makes you appreciate it," he said.

"I don't think it's necessarily been hard, we're playing footy and we love playing footy. We're just trying to play it at the highest level that we can.

"It's not necessarily been difficult to motivate ourselves over the years but it just gives us a bit of context of going through so many tough years and finally seeing some success that is measurable in making finals."

Fry puts the Wanderers' improvement this season down to two major factors - the arrival of new coach Michael Babic and the development of the club's young players.

"The coach has been great," he said.

"We have had great coaches over the year and they can all take credit for the development of the club because we have improved every year. But Babs has taken it to the next level this year, tactically and rotating the team and picking the team.

"Also, everyone is just a year older. We've got quite a few young blokes, some of these guys were playing 18s last year and a lot of them were playing 23s and still could be."

The Wanderers went down 3-2 in their only encounter with Quenabeyan City this season.

A win would put them straight through to the grand final and Fry believes that is an achievable goal.

"I think we're a big chance. Anyone that was down there and watched the game we had against Queanbeyan, you can see that we are easily at least a match for them," he said.

"They're a big, strong physical team and there was a couple of individual errors in that game that led to goals conceded. If they don't happen then we get some points out of it.

"We know that we're fully capable of beating this team and we'll go into the game confident."

Fry believes one aspect of the Wanderers game they must improve is the way they start.

"One factor we've had some trouble with over the last few weeks is conceding early goals," he said.

"I think we've conceded an early goal in each of our last three games. I think it's been a goal in the first five minutes in each of them. It would be nice to avoid that but we've had a decent result the last couple of weeks despite that.

"I think the key will be defensively dealing with their crosses, because that's where we struggled last game against us. I think if we can deal with their crosses, that's me in particular, I've really got to stand up and if we can do that it will go a long way towards getting the result we want.

"We've got some gun forwards and I know they've got goals in them."

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