"We're looking forward to it and they are obviously the benchmark of the competition and everyone knows that," Worn said.

"The ladder doesn't not reflect the way we are playing football and growing as a team so it's a big opportunity for us."

Worn said the Sharks played well for three-quarters last week against an experienced Bridgenorth outfit that was used to playing together and expected an unchanged line-up for the Bulldogs.

SOUTH Launceston made it four straight wins with a comprehensive victory over Scottsdale and coach Aaron Viney said the most pleasing aspect of the win was that his younger players stood up and took the lead.

"It wasn't left to our senior guys and that is where we are going to improve in the development of our younger players," Viney said.

"We let a couple of goals in late but we kicked ten goals in the second quarter and the boys played the sort of footy that we want to play so it was a really good result for us at the weekend."

Ominously for the rest of the competition Viney said the Bulldogs had five premiership players missing last week.

He will return from suspension with the likes of Beau Green, Joel Mountney, Nick Denholm and Sam Page all back.

BRACKNELL will try to make it back-to-back victories after last week's win over Longford when they host Deloraine.

Redlegs coach Gary Shipton said the Roos would provide another good test and they were keen to knock off a side above them on the ladder. The Redlegs are still gelling together as a team Shipton said but were starting to play some good football.

"We played four quarters last week and stuck to the game plan so we have to back that up and repeat it this week," he said.

Josh Adams and Ashley Chapman will miss with injury.

DELORAINE coach Rory Mansell said he was looking forward to the trip to Bracknell which he believed had improved under Shipton and looked a likely finals contender.

Mansell said the Roos were tracking along OK at 3-1 apart from a bad loss to the frontrunners of the competition in South.

"We have lots of injuries at the moment but we make no excuses and these are important games which affect whether you finish in the top-three or put yourself back into the pack," he said.

He said they expected to be relatively unchanged.

ROCHERLEA faces Bridgenorth coming off a win over George Town where coach Lyndon Stubbs said they played in patches.

Stubbs said they needed to play four quarters to beat the Parrots but felt the suburban Tigers matched up well on them and played their home ground well.

Adrian Cirkel and James Storay should be available for return.

BRIDGENORTH played well after a poor first quarter last week and coach Michael Bowden said they could not allow Rocherlea to jump them at the start.

The Parrots are second with a 4-1 record but Bowden said keeping the same side on the track was proving problematic. Nick McElwee will miss with a bruised heel and Adam Linford has school football.

LONGFORD hosts George Town in a bottom of the table clash with one side set to open their account.