A RUN of 16 successive meeting wins has put Swindon Robins 10 points clear at the top of the table, but team manager Alun Rossiter knows that streak will count for nothing if they can’t convert it in the play-offs.

Swindon can clinch top spot in the SGB Premiership with a win this evening, but Rossiter admits it won’t be an easy task.

Any victory at the Abbey Stadium tonight over Wolverhampton Wolves, who lie in second place and are the only side who can mathematically still catch the Robins if they claim a maximum 14 points from their remaining meetings, will secure Rossiter first pick of opposition in the play-offs.

However, having seen his side’s hopes of clinching a play-off berth last season when needing just one point from their last three meetings fade away, Rossiter is remaining solely focussed on the task in hand.

“The run we are on is very nice, but it doesn’t win you the league,” he said.

“We could go on this massive run and then get knocked out in the semi-finals of the play-offs and it would have counted for nothing.

“Every win we get at the moment in this run is a bonus but I am more focussed on just getting the points to make sure we finish top and then I can start thinking about how to get to the final.

“I know we only need one more win to finish top but it’s not going to be easy.

“Wolves will be up for it. We have just got to make sure we are on our game.

“We know what we can do at home and we’ve just got to make sure we secure those three vital points and it doesn’t matter if they get a point or not.”

With Bradley Wilson-Dean still sidelined with a wrist injury, Rossiter has called up Scunthorpe’s Finnish rider Tero Aarnio to guest at number six, whilst Newcastle and Lakeside man Alfie Bowtell deputising for Zach Wajtknecht.

Rossiter has admitted that finding replacements for his two injured reserve riders has been far from straight forward but, with a play-off spot already secured, he hopes to have secured the services of Edinburgh Monarchs' Mitchell Davey for the both semi-finals.

“I’ve been struggling to get riders in,” he said.

“People are riding, people don’t want to ride, I can’t use riders because they have already ridden and it has just been an absolute nightmare.

“Everybody thinks we can just get X in and get Y in but it doesn’t work like that.

“The trouble is, where it has all been crammed in now, so many riders are doing so many meetings that a lot of them are ruled out.

“I’ve been left pulling my hair out. I’ve constantly been on the phone trying to get riders to agree to come.

“It hasn’t helped with Bradley being out as well.

“He briefly sent me a message saying that he is still out and until he tells me he is fit, I won’t rush him back.”