It is a great sense of satisfaction for Bay United to have earned the right to win a trophy as well as the opportunity to foot it at O-League should they defy the odds tomorrow to be the victors.
Consistency is the key, Angell believes, for his charges to realise the ultimate national summer league dream.
Bay United have won five out their six last outings whereas Auckland have an unblemished run of a dozen matches.
The Ramon Tribulietx-coached city slickers finished 12 points clear of fellow O-League campaigners Wellington, who have 30 on the premiership table, with Bay United three behind in third place.
Angell acknowledges his small squad but finds comfort in having them all available, devoid of injuries or suspensions.
Bay United respect Auckland's achievements but haven't lost sight of the fact they're only 90 minutes away from doing the unthinkable.
"They've put their little niche in history down at the moment but it doesn't have to end there," Angell says.
"If we're not successful, the season has provided some good days.
"You only know what you know or you can be limited by what you think is going to happen."
Only the players, well versed in their roles, can cross the white line tomorrow.
"If it works for us, we'll achieve but if don't it won't be for the want of trying.
"It's a great season in being in the grand final and it's better to be in a winning one than a losing one."
Angell's only pledge to his squad was to make them into better players, win or lose.
"I told them to turn up to train and not to waste an hour and a half of your lives ... because you're wasting an hour and a half of my life."
It was perhaps a different philosophy from other coaches the players had encountered before but Angell has earned their respect.
"When they leave on Monday, I'm hoping they'll take some of the things we've talked about and employ them in their regular football.
"Whether that happens when I see them in the winter league or completely different players to what I've seen previously, I don't know."
What transpires next season is something Angell and his support staff will tackle at the time, including the injection of regional players compared with showing loyalty to the current crop who have helped create history.
"Who knows who comes in, who knows who goes out.
"Who knows that if we make the O-League that we'll be looking at a slightly different type of player who can potentially sustain a run in the premiership as well as the O-League," he says, using Team Wellington's recruitment as a classic example.
"We've got the opportunity on Sunday to win a grand final then leap into other things that may develop in other ways.
"Yes, it's smacking you in the face but in another way the game is a hell of a lot bigger than maybe people thought it could be or would be."
Angell harbours no regrets in missing out as runners-up to Auckland City in the minor premiership to earn automatic entry to the O-League because he sees beating Team Wellington as part of the natural progression where they made incremental gains.
"I've never had to look at player in the eye to say, 'You're not giving your best to this team'.
"That's all I can ask. The game is not played on paper, it's played on grass."
Angell feels their position on the table suggests they could have done with a little more depth in numbers.
