Fylde, 3rd in National Three (North), travel to 5th placed Harrogate looking for an elusive win at Claro Road that will secure the runners-up spot in the division. There's only pride at stake as the 2nd placed team for the first time in the history of the division doesn't earn a promotion play-off place due to the restructuring of the RFU leagues next season. But both clubs will want to go out of a prolonged and ultimately rather frustrating season on a high.

Claro Road has been a real bogey ground for Fylde as they have lost on their last five visits there. But at the Woodlands earlier this season the home team humiliated the Yorkshire men by 62-15 so revenge will be in the air.

This is Harrogate's second season in this spell in N3N following relegation from National Two at the end of the 2006/7 campaign. 'Gate is a fine club, founded almost 50 years before Fylde in 1871, but which has suffered financially in recent seasons. This has been in part due to a prolonged and as yet unresolved dispute about the location of a new ground and moving away from Claro Road involving planning and other difficulties.

Mike Aspinall, 25 year old former Leeds Collegiate, Otley & Saracens scrum-half, is 'Gate's full time player-coach and is assisted by tough former Doncaster no 8 Ryan Peacey. If Harrogate is generally Fylde's bogey side then they must have nightmares about long serving fullback and current skipper Ed Smithies who has scored so many tries against the Lancastrians over more than a decade that they can hardly be counted! And, keeping up a fine career record this season, he's notched 12 tries so far in this campaign and is one short of his hundred touch downs in his long and distinguished career.

Aspinall has certainly rung the changes during the season with no less than 49 players appearing in 1st team action.

Apart from Smithies and Aspinall, the stars of their backline include former Blaydon & Wakefield centre or fly-half Nick Wainwright, a very creative player who can also kick goals, and top scoring winger Sam Bottomley along with fellow wide man Will Tattersall.Goal kicking duties have been shared between Aspinall, Wainwright and fly-halves Cerith Rees and James Murray.

Outstanding members of the Gate pack include backrower Peacey, the excellent Leeds Carnegie No 8 Richard Beck, reliable prop Simon Davies & former Beverley hooker Aaron Yorke.

Due to injuries and unavailabilities, Fylde are forced to make seven changes to the team that took to the field against Huddersfield.  Daniel Bibby and Tommy Banks, both students at Kirkham GS make their first starts for the club.

	Adam Lewis Parker International		Craig Aikman (c) Bill Beaumont Textiles Ltd		Kieron Brookes JGT Solicitors
	Alan Holmes JPS Partnership		Daniel Bibby Pemberton Dairies		Nick Campbell HRH Entertainments
	Andrew Irving EC Chemicals		Tommy Banks Arena Sport		David Rees Thornton Rugby Club
	Andrew Rosen EC Chemicals		David Wiseman The Fylde Ladies Rugby Team		Jack Ward Clifton Dental Practice
	Grant Ferguson Fylde Supporters Club (Oman)		Tom Albinson JGT Solicitors		James Smith Cowley Fire
	Dan Palmer The Rooms Lytham		Nick Royle Club Media Ltd
	David Wilks Nirvana Audio Visual		Richard Kenyon The Gift Pack Company
	Mark Stephenson Handelsbanken

                           Craig Aikman scored against 'Gate in the game between the two clubs in October at the Woodlands.