SWINDON Robins team manager Alun Rossiter knows his side’s hopes of making the play-offs are in serious doubt if their current form continues much longer.

The Robins haven’t failed to make it into the play-offs in the Elite League since 2011, when they finished bottom of the pile after a dismal season.

Despite Wolverhampton Wolves making their statement of intent for securing a first play-off berth since 2013 with the arrival of double world champion Tai Woffinden, Rossiter does not think it will help his team’s chances of making the season finale by changing his septet at this late stage.

“We’ve got a bit of a break now until King’s Lynn and I will sit back, get my head around it, and I will speak to all in the next week,” he said.

“The way we are riding at the moment, even if we make the play-offs, we are not going to be good enough.

“We can’t rely on one or two riders all the time, you look at the Coventry scores from Monday, all the way down they were all scoring sevens, eights or nines and even from their fast-track riders and we only got five points from both of our reserves.

“The trouble is, there is no point making the changes just for the sake of it because there isn’t anybody out there.

“If there was, then I am sure I would have looked at it."

Justin Sedgmen and Josh Grajczonek were part of that 2011 Robins side and they are two of the riders who have stuttered in recent weeks.

While the number of big breaks between meetings has been a talking point this campaign, Rossiter says it can’t be used as an excuse and riders will have to dig deep to re-find their form.

“All of a sudden Justin isn’t going now. He has held his own in the side all season and I just don’t know what has happened,” he added.

“He has gone from a rider who was banging in sixes and sevens on a regular basis, which was more than his job than he was doing.

“Now he is struggling big style.

“I have said about the lack of continuity before but the Premier League boys are riding and it is only Nick and Justin who are suffering from the lack of meetings.

“I know it is not from the lack of trying, I am not saying they are not trying, but by now, these boys should be able to adapt to the conditions when riding away from home.”