GLASGOW will face two of their toughest away fixtures this week with a target on their backs, according Stewart Dickson.

The Tigers boss believes that his side's flying start to the season and massive 71-19 win at the weekend will have only served to rile their rivals.

Glasgow are preparing for a massive day on Sunday as they host the British Championship semi-final.

But before then the side have league business at Sheffield tomorrow and Somerset on Friday to think about.

Dickson has kept his 1-7 in the same riding order for the visits to their fellow Premier League play-off challengers, and finds it hard to predict how the fixtures will pan out.

He said: "We're being thrown right into it with our first away league meetings.

"I've kept the team just the same as I have in the last couple of weeks because I think it's starting to settle down a wee bit and it's working.

"We had some good matches with Sheffield last year and they're very good at home. Former Tiger Dimitri Berge is racking the scores up at home and I'm sure he'll be keen to continue that against us. We've got guys who can ride that place, don't get me wrong.

"I think you go to these tracks targeting at least one point - maybe we'll use the sensible head and say that if we get a point, anything else is a bonus. There are maybe half-a-dozen tracks where we've got to be realistic and the teams are going to be very hard to beat on their own patch. These two fall into that category.

"With our 71-19 score, if Somerset and Sheffield weren't up for us coming, they're going to be now. We've almost put a target on our back - we are the pre-season favourites - and after getting that win, we've become more noticeable as a club that's going in the right direction."

The south-west has never been a happy hunting ground for Glasgow, but Dickson insists his men will offer full commitment in trying to change that.

He said: "Somerset are already building it up as a biggie - so we need to show the same determination and hunger that we've shown in every match so far this year - because these two teams are going to come firing out the traps. They know if they're off-form, we will take massive advantage of it.

"Somerset isn't a track we tend to go well at. Our best score - apart from the draw in the Sky TV match in 2010 - was getting the 42 in the league play-off semi-final last year.

"We have got guys who can ride it - Richie Worrall rode there last season, Ben Barker has raced there numerous times, and Richard Lawson and Aaron Summers know the place. It should suit Nike Lunna, and Danny Ayres guested for Somerset in the semi-final last year and beat James Sarjeant in heat two - so I know he can ride it.

"They're going to be tough meetings, but they know at the same time that we're going to be tough opposition. We'd love to win one, if not both of them, but the minimum requirement is a point from each of them. On the night we could do better and we could do worse. I don't know what to expect.

"They've got good riders and we've got good riders - and we'll give it our best shot as always."