This time last year Burnley were a Premier League team and celebrating a home victory over Manchester United.
But after one "season in the sun" they are back in the Championship but already making their intentions known as they start the season unbeaten and arrive in South Wales in third place in the early league table.
But with an international break to follow today's fixture, victory for the Swans would move them to within one point of their visitors – something that Dobbie is looking to help them achieve.
He told the Western Mail “A good result against Burnley is very important, especially with international break coming up because we want to go into that off the back of a win.
“Burnley have had some really good results so far this season.
“They’ve got the Scotland striker Chris Iwelumo in, who has scored a lot of goals already. Chris Eagles is in there as well and he is a player who can cause teams a lot of problems.
“Burnley have got quite a few players who are Premiership class. It didn’t happen for the team in the Premier League, but they are still a very good side.
“The home form was really good last year and we’ve got to continue that way.
“We’ve had a good start with the 4-0 win over Preston and a win in the Carling Cup, it’s just a matter of going out and playing our own way.
“Burnley will come to attack because they are playing very well at the moment.
“They’ve got good attacking options so they won’t be worried about having a go at us.
“We love to get forward in numbers, especially at home, so it should make for an exciting game.
“After the Norwich game the boys were very dejected because we played really well and didn’t get what we deserved. But, if we take the same mentality into Saturday’s game against Burnley, I’m sure we will get the right result.
“We played so well against Preston and took that to Norwich and it’s something we want to do for the rest of the campaign, play well at home use the momentum to go into the away games.
“We need to make the Liberty Stadium a fortress and give away nothing there.
“The gaffer has said he’s looking to strengthen up front with Gorka (Pintado) injured and Craig Beattie out,” said Dobbie, who this week signed a new two-year contract to keep him at the club for the next three seasons.
“There’s only me and Shefki (Kuqi) here at the moment who are fit.
“It’s the same at any big club, if the gaffer can bring quality players in he is going to do it and we all want to see that.
“We are waiting to see what he will do in the transfer market, but I am sure it will be a major boost for the team.
“Scott’s come in and been a major boost for the squad.” said Dobbie. “We’ve got Scott, Nathan Dyer, (Darren) Pratley, (David) Cotterill, there are so many creative players in the team as a striker it is everything you want.
“Last season the gaffer was more defensive and we only scored 40 goals, when the new manager came in it was something he wanted us to work on.
“I’m sure we’ll get back on track and scoring goals this year.”
This article first appeared on JACKARMY.net.