Clearly the Reds are the favourites for this one.
Playing his 100th Super Rugby game, the Queenslanders will rally for FTS's special occasion, and emotionally get up for this match.
Battle hardened by a physical encounter with the Stormers, they will no doubt be well recovered after a week with low workload and a lot of rest, as the Force will be, but the bye will have stifled what little momentum the Force had.
The Reds have the firepower up front to get the job done; a formidable scrummaging, all Wallabies capped front row (bar Owen and Anae - but Anae was a Wallaby tourist in 2013 so watch out) under the tutelage of former Force forwards coach Nick Stiles, who knows the Force scrum inside and out. Reinforced by the Wallabies locking duo, the grunt provided by these two will go a long way to dismantling the Force scrum, and dominating the lineout.
And in the backrow are 3 youthful, energetic hard workers, who will look to up the pace and smother the Force backrow featuring the aging veteran Hodgo, the 4th-in-line Wallabies number 8 (7th in line if you go by Tomikin's recommendation that Smiler, Butler, and Auelua are better) McCalman and the evergreen Cottrell.
And don't get me started on the halves pairing. The incumbent Wallabies halves combination of Genia and Cooper will look to absolute dominate proceedings, and their counterparts, who are nothing but 'journeymen' from South Africa and New Zealand. A 4-try bonus point is in the works here when these two are playing in tandem.
The rest of the Reds backline is not too shabby either: all Wallabies capped, apart from Frisby, watch the likes of Tapuai, Shipperly, Turner and Davies just run rings around the average Force backline, whose only shining light Godwin will absolutely get schooled by Harris.
If the Force don't get rolled by 30+, call it a moral victory for the men from the West.
