A RESURGENT Swindon Robins gave their Elite League play-off hopes a shot in the arm by coming back from the dead to dispatch the King’s Lynn Stars tonight.

Trailing 16-8 after just four heats, Rossiter’s troops looked destined for a night of misery at the Abbey Stadium but the hosts roared back in stirring style to get their hands on a vital three-point haul.

In action for the first time in almost two weeks, the Robins went out looking to put themselves in the ascendancy from the off but both Rohan Tungate and Jason Doyle were passed by Grand Prix star Niels-Kristian Iversen as the first heat of the evening was drawn.

The Stars’ reserves looked on course for an early maximum in heat two but Charles Wright found a way past former team-mate Lewis Rose to limit the damage.

However, the visitors would go on to claim a 5-1 in the next race as Robert Lambert – fresh from helping Rossiter’s Great Britain to a silver medal in last weekend’s World Cup final – and former Swindon skipper Troy Batchelor swatted aside Nick Morris and Justin Sedgmen.

The Stars continued to dominate early on and only Josh Grajczonek catching Rose inches from the finish line prevented King’s Lynn from extending their lead even further than 16-8 in heat four.

But following the first break of the evening, and presumably with Rossiter’s words still ringing in their ears, Tungate and Wright hit back for Swindon, blazing away from Lewis Kerr and Nikolaj Busk Jakobsen to rack up the hosts’ first 5-1 victory.

And the comeback didn’t stop there, with Grajczonek and Morris claiming a 4-2 win in heat six, but the home side couldn’t take full advantage of Lambert’s botched start in the next race, with Sedgmen suffering a technical issue as the race was drawn.

Parity was restored in heat eight as Grajczonek led the hosts to a 4-2 win to make it 24-24 and the Robins then turned the fixture on its head, taking the lead for the first time on the night and ensuring that the Stars had gone four heats without a win as Tungate and Wright battered Jakobsen 5-1.

The Robins' revival continued in heat 10, with Sedgmen narrowly holding off Iversen to clinch second-place behind Morris and help his team to another maximum as King’s Lynn were left wondering what had hit them.

An impressive gate from Batchelor in heat 11 mattered little as Tungate romped to his third triumph of the meeting but Swindon’s number one Doyle was left to comprehend a rare fourth-placed finish.

Regardless, the home side continued to streak away, with Wright profiting from Rose’s fall and subsequent disqualification in heat 12 and clinching his first race win to make it 41-31.

The Stars looked to throw the cat among the pigeons as Iversen and Batchelor blazed a trail in heat 13 but determined chasing from Doyle saw the current Robins captain pass the former to limit King’s Lynn’s win to a 4-2.

But Swindon hit back and clinched three points in emphatic style as Morris and Grajczonek left Lambert and an out-of-sorts Schlein trailing as they clinched a heat 14 maximum.

All that was left was for Grajczonek to round things off with his third win of the night in heat 15 as the Stars had their shine taken away.