It's that sort of people power Lianne attributes to the club's success after New Zealand Football awarded it the "Quality Club Mark" (QCM).
The club, boasting a membership of 160 comprising 18 teams, has become the first in the Central Football region to receive the award.
"We now know where we're heading," says Lianne after receiving the award on behalf of the club from NZ Football representative Dwayne Woolliams.
"Before that it was all kind of very loose."
NZ Football created the award to help clubs perform at their peak. It is a collaboration with the national body's seven federations as well as 17 regional sports trusts. It aims to promote continuous improvement in the way the code is delivered and support clubs which aspire to excellence.
Woolliams says only 24 other clubs in the country have received such recognition.
"The award acknowledges that the Port Hill Junior Football Club is well organised and has formed a working relationship with Central Football and Sport Hawke's Bay in achieving this award."
Lianne says the process of achieving the quality mark recognition was "quite involved" for the seven-member committee.
The committee banded to find specific job descriptions to help establish operation plans to become increasingly efficient.
"This makes us stand out as a club that is doing things that we weren't doing in the past, that makes us a club that might be seen by parents and children to be run in a way that will make them want to join us.
"It also means as a committee who run the club we feel quite confident in a way that we are running the club and it has been recognised that we are doing a good job.
"We have a vision now and we know where we are heading. It means that we have an operational plan that we didn't have before which also gives everyone job descriptions for the people who belong to the committee, so now everyone knows what their jobs are and where we are heading and how we get there."
Lianne reckons her occupation has been instrumental in helping her come to grips with her secretarial role in the club.
"I'm pretty good as a teacher anyway so I was a good person to take over the job," she says with a laugh.
It is a faceless task of sifting through piles of paperwork, putting children into teams and scheduling training times.
"It's like being in a desk job. It's quite different from anything I'd done before."
But passion is vital in offering the voluntary service to the community.
"I love doing it, the kids love it but it's a big job," says Lianne, likening it to classroom planning "but not seen to be doing it".
The prospect of what the award can bring to the club from a playing and growth perspective also excites her.
"We definitely want to keep doing what we are doing and to be seen in the community as being a really well-run club which communicates well with our members and provides a great service."
Lianne lauds the senior Port Hill Soccer Club for providing coaching and the use of its facilities to help create a distinctive pathway for the youngsters to gravitate towards the upper echelons.
The two clubs, she emphasises, remain completely separate entities but they are increasingly forging ties in what is "a work in progress".
"We're communicating a lot more and they are providing us a lot more support," she says, suspecting there was a breakdown between the junior and senior clubs somewhere along the way.
"We're now working hard at changing that and the seniors are too."
The juniors' ages range from 4 to 12 with predominantly boys in the equation.
"We don't have a girls-only team but we do have some girls who are stronger, older players who end up playing for the [age-group] rep teams."
Her vision is for the juniors and seniors to eventually become a strong "two-way thing".
