Wigan Warriors ready to face fired-up Catalan Dragons in opening Super League play-off match "We gave them a bit of a drubbing in that first play-off game," he recalled. I'm sure they've worked hard all year to be part of the play-offs and, with Trent Robinson going home at the end of the year, they will want to send him off on a bit of a high. We've had two very physical games against them already this year. They've a big forward pack and, if you don't get control of them, you are kind of on the back foot for the majority of the game. We're well aware of how tough a game this could be. The Catalans secured fourth place largely on the back of their impressive performances in Perpignan, where they have lost just once this year, compared to their away form which has brought them just two wins in the last three months. However, they are hoping to rectify that by arriving two days in advance of the match and Robinson also believes they are in a better position to go all the way to Old Trafford than they were last year, his first at the helm. "It was a financial decision to come the day before competition games which is obviously not ideal but we've given ourselves an extra day this time," said Robinson, who is leaving at the end of the season to take charge of Sydney Roosters. We certainly got a lesson last year. We knew that we would have to improve throughout the year and we believe we've done that. We're conscious that we've got to improve to get to the final but we also don't feel we're far away any more. We know what we have got to do. The losers on Friday, and in Saturday's second qualifier between Warrington and St Helens, will get a second chance to reach the semi-finals but O'Loughlin says that will not be part of their thinking. "You are well aware that you get another chance if you lose but we'll be hoping not to use that," he said. When we won the Grand Final in 2010 we lost that first game and went the harder route and, if possible, we want to get this game won and use that weekend's rest to do a bit more work on the field and rest a few injured bodies. We are looking at this game as if it's a knockout game.