A quartet of heavyweights aim to get the edge as St Pats host Old Launcestonians and Lilydale visit Pyengana against East Coast.
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St Pats are celebrating their 1936 premiership victory by donning heritage guernseys, with coach Jake Lowe hoping his side continues raising last week's standard.
"If we go in with the same mindset, eliminate our basic skill errors and silly mental blanks from that game, we will be confident," he said.
"We respect them because they've picked up three or four pretty good players this year and I still think they are not at their full peak either."
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Old Launcestonians coach Laine Cleaver believes the Blues are starting to build form but will be tested.
"It's going to be a good test for us to see where we are at, whether we are going to be a contender with the top teams or whether we'll be middle of the road," he said.
The Blues lose Jay Schulz, Field Reeves and Jesse Brown but gain Alex Downie, Luke Johnston and Mark Edwards.
As the Swans and Demons lock horns, the occasion certainly isn't lost on East Coast coach Gene Savage.
"The boys look forward to this clash at Pyengana every year and to play the ladder leader and the benchmark of the competition, I think it will give us a good indicator of where we are at," he said.
Lilydale coach Colin Lockhart admitted some of his players "don't know where the ground is" but is looking forward to his side's first major test as son Wil returns.
"I said they'd be at the pointy end come the end of the year so ... we will have to beat them sometime in the finals if we want to go back to back," the flag coach said.
Meander Valley is bracing itself for the challenge of facing Sam Bouwman's Evandale after playing alongside him last season.
Suns coach Damian Rhind was disappointed with their goalkicking last week but praised their effort.
"It'll be a challenge facing up against him and his side but we are looking forward to the opportunity," he said.
"In our first home game, it was very embarrassing for us to ... go down by 100 points, so we are certainly looking to bounce back."
His side will gain some experienced players, with Evandale losing three to injury but Bouwman is still keen.
"They are a team that is in a similar position to us, they are a relatively young list looking to build up," he said.
"It will be good to actually test ourselves against someone in that area as we've had a reasonably tough opening three weeks."
After struggling with consistency, Bridport faces UTAS without Joe Krushka, Jarrah Burns or Lachie Mason.
Coach Greg Latham is searching for an even performance, while also adding fresh faces.
"Hopefully this week we can get a more improved performance over the four quarters," he said.
After a big loss last week, UTAS coach Brodie Tiernan admitted several of his players "played the game in their head beforehand".
"We've been focusing on our talk and our run, so hopefully we can get that back and sorted this weekend," he said.