The Plate finals across all competitions will get underway this weekend, with the grand finals now brought forward a week to October 17-18.

The Cup grand finals remain on October 24-25, with the Pascoe Cup competition now to go into a two-week hiatus until finals start.

They won't play this Sunday, in what was a spare weekend after the mid-season fixture reschedule, while the following week is a Football Wagga-wide general bye for the October long weekend.

Football Wagga president Tony Dobbin said the idea to bring the Plate finals forward belonged to clubs.

"Rather than everyone having two weeks off, we've brought the Plates forward," Dobbin said.

"It came from suggestions of clubs. If everyone had two weeks off, that causes some issues and some of the clubs said why not just start the Plates early, it puts the focus on the Plates, which is what we're after. And when we looked at it, the advantage to us is it helped us with logistics in fields. Having everything run at once, we were going to have problems with fields."

The first week of Cup finals remain October 10-11. It means the first team through to the Pascoe Cup final will have played just one game in five weeks.

"It's the long weekend that's done it. Then the three extra weeks that we changed. It's been unfortunate," Dobbin said.

In the Pascoe Plate, Tolland have the opening week off as the highest qualifier.

Lake Albert play Tumut and Wagga United face South Wagga both meet at Rawlings Park on Sunday.

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