Because if there is a team in the Co-operative Championship that is currently in a false position, it is Gateshead Thunder.
Since Fax put the cleaners through the north east outfit at the end of April, they have improved out of sight.
A new coach - the Championship's eternal second, Steve McCormack - has started to put some steel in a side that didn't look that interested in competing the last time the teams met.
And a quartet of high quality imports - Kris Kahler, Russell Aitken, Paul Franze and Nick Youngquest joining the clutch of foreigners already there - have added real class.
All four have significant NRL experience, with Aitken winning a Grand Final with Melbourne in 2007.
That doesn't automatically qualify them for stardom.
But it does tend to bring a culture and a toughness that makes them difficult opponents.
Just look at Celtic Crusaders last season.
For Fax, a win, any kind of win, will do.
It cannot have been an easy week for Matt Calland or his players.
But they will wake up on Monday morning feeling twice as bad if they compound last weekend's Northern Rail Cup exit with a potentially costly league defeat.
Tactically, the Thunder are likely to adopt a similar approach to the Vikings.
McCormack's teams have all played the same way over the years: complete, kick, complete, kick, complete, kick.
It's not thrilling, but it can be effective.
And if Fax pay as scant regard for possession and position as they did seven days ago, it could be a sobering drive back down the A1 tomorrow night.


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