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Corey Chamblin

Coming up tomorrow Rider Nation will welcome back Andy Fantuz for the first time as the Green and White battle Hamilton at Mosaic Stadium.

Earlier this week receiver Rob Bagg announced that he'll have season ending surgery to repair a torn ACL, which means players like Jordan Sisco could have the opportunity to be a relied on to haul in more passes.

Riders Head Coach Corey Chamblin says Sisco continues to improve each and every day.  "He's going uphill and that's a good thing.  I like what he's doing, he's done everything we've asked him to do, he's caught the balls we've needed from him, and he's been a game changer in the things we've asked him to do.  Right now he'll continue to add depth at the receiver spot."

Back in week one Saskatchewan dominated the Ti-Cats in a 43-16 win in Steel Town, since then both teams have grown and are are considered among the CFL's top teams.  Chamblin says they're not calling this game the "Big Ticket" like they did against BC, instead they're looking at it as two of the top teams colliding in what could be considered a marquee matchup of the week.

"This will be a big show, like I told the guys the game's pretty much sold out so the fans have done their part so I expect the guys to sell out," said Chamblin.  "It's just about focus this week.  I talked to the guys earlier in the week that we have to be focused for every second that we're out on the field and then we just have to finish.  There's some other little things that we've thrown in there but we'll be pretty good."

This game marks the return of Andy Fantuz to Saskatchewan for the first time since signing with Hamilton during the off season.  Fantuz leads the Ti-Cats receivers with 298 yards and is apart of the arsenal for quarterback Henry Burris that will test the Riders secondary.

"It doesn't matter who's in there, we have to be able to play them.  They have talent but at the same time we have talented DB's.  It's not like we have a significant drop off when we put our second and third guys in which we don't name them that, we just simple have eight or nine guys sitting around here ready to play," said Chamblin.

Another Hamilton threat that the Riders are aware off is returner Chris Williams, who's fifth in the league in combined return yards with 512.  "He'll have to touch the ball, I'd just be happy if he doesn't return one and doesn't get big gains.  As long as we do our jobs I think that will happen," said Chamblin.

The Riders have their walk through of Mosaic Stadium this morning, the Ti-Cats will go through this afternoon, all the action starts Saturday afternoon with kick off at 4pm.