While Leicester will have surprised no one by tucking themselves in behind frontrunners Harlequins and Saracens in the league table, Wasps are proving to be the season's surprise package.
And with both teams needing a positive result to stay alive in the LV= Cup, the Kiwi winger or full-back knows Leicester will have to be at their best to get anything out of the game.
"Wasps have sneaked into fourth without too much of a fuss while everyone is talking about Bath or Gloucester," said the 32-year-old New Zealander, who helped Leicester to a 9-5 victory over Toulouse in the Heineken Cup on Sunday.
"It's going to be difficult because we will have to see what sort of team we put out as we will be missing a lot of players on representative duty, but we have a lot of guys who haven't played for a long time and no doubt it will be a similar situation for Wasps.
"We are at home and at Leicester we always want to win whatever side we put out, and we will be confident after the result at the weekend even though a lot of those guys won't be playing.
"If we win and do well in the next two games it gives that group of players a chance to stay in the side and potentially play in the next round.
"Towards the end of the season with a Heineken Cup quarter-final and Aviva Premiership games piling up players will need to be rested on some weekends, so a few guys in this group are going to get another chance and push for first team selection."
Leicester Tigers are unbeaten in their last eight fixtures in all competitions since losing 12-14 at London Wasps in the Premiership on 25 November. The Tigers' only reversal at Welford Road in any competition since the 2011 Rugby World Cup was 9-22 to Harlequins on 22 September 2012.
Leicester are the reigning LV= Cup holders and have lost just one of their last seven matches in the competition: 21-38 away to Saracens on 9 November 2012.
London Wasps ended an unwanted seven-match losing streak in the LV= Cup with their 28-19 victory at home to Worcester in round two. The Londoners have not won on the road in this competition since a visit to Newcastle on 7 February 2010.
The two clubs have met twice before in this competition, both at the semi-final stage at Millennium Stadium, in 2006 with Wasps winning 22-17 and two years later with Tigers exacting revenge, 34-24. Wasps have not won at Welford Road since September 2008.
Wasps come into the game of a six-week winning streak that culminated in a resolute 20-19 victory over Newport Gwent Dragons at the weekend, which secured the Adams Park outfit a home quarter-final against Leinster in the Amlin Challenge Cup.
Despite his side being unbeaten since December 1 and full of tries this season, 6ft 6in lock James Cannon is not taking anything for granted ahead of the club's trip to Leicester.
"Any time you go up to Welford Road for a game it is always going to be a big game," he insisted.
"It is pretty easy to get motivated for it - if we go well up there then we are not too far away from a semi-final and possible silverware.
"The history is there for everybody to see between the two clubs and so there is not motivation needed for Leicester Tigers away."
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