Matt Rilkoff says:

A shark is not about finesse. It’s about brute strength. Just like a bull, our bull in fact. Our teams really are two powerful and graceful animals.

Except one is most at home in a paddock of green and the other is not meant for land at all. Not meant to be out of the water for longer than a few minutes except when it’s next to a scoop of fried potatoes.

But enough of that. The game is going to be close. They always are.

You’ve beaten us the last two times we met and so your confidence is high, despite the fact you rather ran out of puff in 2014.

You’re also obviously extremely excited at your poetry skills. Stoic farmers and oilmen don’t really do poetry, but we’ll give it a go. Rhys will ‘‘Marshall’’ our forward pack around the park before we... No, that’s us done with the poetry. We’ll save our fancy talking for the victory speech.

We’ve earned this home semi but we’re going to do the hospitable thing here.

We’re going to say that, as our guests, you have the edge. You’ve got what it takes to win this and if you keep going forward the glory will be yours.

Sorry, just kidding. You’re a fish out of water and your season ends here.