Ahead of the two sides meeting on Good Friday, Launceston coach Mitch Thorp believes the rivalry between his Blues and North Launceston could be as strong as ever.
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The Northern TSL sides have met in the past two grand finals, which have been barn-burning affairs, ensuring fireworks despite some strong respect.
"They are well organised, they've got some different faces out there but they've still got some talent and some of their guys are real match-winners," Thorp said.
"We need to make sure we are nice and professional and prepare strongly, no different to what we did against Kingborough on the weekend.
"It's only round four but Good Friday has a little bit of a different feel to it, being a public holiday there's normally a lot of people that come along and have a look at two teams that play in a pretty combative way."
Launceston have started their tilt at a premiership hat-trick at 3-0 and head into Friday's Windsor Park clash adding big names Michael Musicka, Dylan Riley and Jacob Boyd to their line-up.
The Blues announced Riley's addition on their social media channels on Wednesday night while North Launceston also bolstered their stocks - bringing in Jack Avent and Nathan Pearce.
However, the Bombers will lose key playmaker Michael Stingel courtesy of an ankle injury, with coach Brad Cox-Goodyer, who is also not playing, describing the changes as "a double-edged sword".
"He had an x-ray and that was all clear which is good but we've got to get the scan and we are looking at syndesmosis, which is not ideal," Cox-Goodyer said.
"The physio seems to think, if he was a betting man, that it's not a tear, so we are probably looking at a month for him as best case scenario."
Five-time premiership player Avent and Pearce, who both come in after stints off with COVID, will be some of the names called upon to replace Stingel.
"We've got some guys that can go through there with a bit of experience, especially against Launceston's mids who have got some pretty big names in there and some good systems around the ball," Cox-Goodyer said.
"We're just going to look to bring that effort, we can talk about structure and all that, but if the guys bring effort, that's all I can ask for."
The teams come into Friday's clash following contrasting round three matches, with Launceston powering over Kingborough and North going down to Clarence.
The latter was due to a lack of "energy and effort" according to Cox-Goodyer.
"They saw some pretty daunting clips of some efforts that probably aren't acceptable, so they cop it on the chin and move forward," he said.
"If you come in with effort like that in this league, you're going to lose to anyone and I think we know that.
"They actually trained really well last week and I thought we were up and about but on the day, they were a bit flat and you could just feel the energy was down.
"They've got to be able to turn that around and put the onus on it, it's really player-driven that sort of stuff."
Launceston's win was a see-sawing encounter with the Tigers that was built off a strong start and some courageous decisions.
"Casey Brown and Brodie Palfreyman both went back with the flight with tremendous courage and took some strong marks," Thorp said.
"It was nice to see their teammates really value that type of behaviour.
"It will be no different this week, we need to make sure that we play in a way that's tough and uncompromising and the boys probably set a standard last week of what's expected to play senior footy at our club."
Both of the coaches had a similar view of what will be crucial when the ball is bounced into the air for the first time at 2pm.
"I believe we are going to control the air in the ruck with Alex Lee, they don't have a dominant ruck as Joe Groenewegen has just come back and is probably a little bit underdone," Cox-Goodyer said,
"We feel like we're going to have the advantage in the air, so it's just about getting good use out of those stoppages because Launceston have got some really good mids.
"They'll try and negate Alex's hit zones but we've just got to make sure that we are unpredictable in there and we'll get some good exits because if we get the ball in our front half, we control the game."
Thorp added: "The game will be largely won and lost around the footy, they've got arguably the best ruckman in the competition and both teams have strong midfields so it will be an interesting battle around the footy."