The V.I. Raiders will have to play well to win this week, and it might take more than that, too – it might take a little necessary roughness.

Nanaimo’s Canadian Junior Football League club is getting ready for Week 2 of the season and a matchup against the Westshore Rebels in Victoria.

“We’re going to go down there and it’s just going to be a cauldron,” said Jerome Erdman, Raiders coach. “The first half or quarter we’re just going to have to weather the storm.”