TROY Batchelor reckons Swindon Robins have started to ‘get the ball rolling’ in their Elite League campaign.

Alun Rossiter’s men have recorded back-to-back wins over King’s Lynn Stars and Wolverhampton Wolves at the Abbey Stadium in recent weeks and will look to make it a hat-trick against Belle Vue Aces tonight.

Last Thursday’s 53-40 success over Wolves was only Batchelor’s second outing of the season in Robins colours, with the Australian having been sidelined with injury.

Swindon were twice beaten heavily on the road in Batchelor’s absence but the skipper reckons everything is coming together now.

“It was a good win for the boys (last week) and it is good to come back and see everyone doing really well,” said Batchelor.

“Nick (Morris) is on fire and Kyle (Howarth) is going really well and I think we’ll see some big scores from him soon.

“The reserves are doing their job but are still working away looking for more and I am confident they have more in them.

“We’ll get the ball rolling and start getting some points on the board and we took our first step last Thursday.”

Batchelor also conceded that he tried to come back too fast from injury earlier in the season.

The Robins skipper suffered a heavy fall in the Elite League opener at home to Poole Pirates on Easter Monday and missed more than three weeks of action.

Batchelor attempted a comeback at the disastrous Grand Prix Series fixture in Warsaw on April 18 but fell twice as the meeting was abandoned, which delayed his return to action.

Although he claimed two heat victories in the defeat of Wolves at the Abbey last week, Batchelor says the severe nature of his injury means he is still not quite at 100 per cent.

“It was everything really, hips, shoulder, ribs, chest. My whole left side was really swollen and I was black and blue for a while,” said Batchelor.

“With the GP and re-hurting the injury, I wasn’t even fully recovered at the time and did that and put a whole dampener on everything.

“Between my shoulder and the track it was a bad day, I literally couldn’t hold onto the bike.

“I am not making excuses but I was riding pretty much with one arm and every time I hit a hole I had to let it go and ended up in the air fence a couple of times and if the meeting hadn’t been called off I would have pulled out anyway.

“I found it (the Wolves fixture) tough at times, not in pain but I haven’t got that strength back yet in my arm. It hasn’t been fun - it has been annoying sitting there."