ALUN Rossiter hopes his Swindon Robins side have already done enough to qualify for the SGB Premiership Knockout Cup final ahead of an expected Belle Vue Aces fightback this evening.

The Robins will carry a hefty 11-point cushion into tonight’s second leg at the National Speedway Stadium after an emphatic 50-39 success in the opening duel at the Abbey Stadium last Thursday.

Swindon will have to do without skipper Jason Doyle in Manchester, with the Australian on Speedway Grand Prix duty in Sweden, while reserves Bradley Wilson-Dean and Zach Wajtknecht are also missing.

Brady Kurtz has been booked as a guest at number one, while Tomas H Jonasson and Liam Carr fill in at reserve, and Rossiter hopes his team’s first-leg heroics will be enough to see them through to the final.

“I’d like to think we’d be OK but obviously Belle Vue will be fired up. If we want any more meetings, we have got to make sure we do the job,” said Rossiter.

“We shouldn’t have any fear, we have won there comfortably before, although it is a different ball game now, I think.

“Obviously it is always tough to replace Jason but if the other guys all ride like they have been recently, we should be fine. Then if Brady drops in with some decent points, that’ll help us too.

“We have been doing really well recently so we should go there feeling confident.”

The Robins also have the second leg of their Premiership play-off semi-final against Poole Pirates looming on Monday night but Rossiter says it would be foolish to look any further ahead than the impending battle with Belle Vue.

“We can’t think about Monday yet and we can’t even start to think about the cup final yet, we have got to get there first, we can’t presume anything,” said Rossiter.

“I have seen a lot of people fall on their face when they start making plans too early. All we can do is cross our fingers that we go and finish the job off.”

Tobiasz Musielak endured his most disappointing night since joining the Robins mid-season in the first leg after scoring just two points but Rossiter had no concerns over the Pole’s form.

“Everything is fine with Tobiasz, he just had one of those nights,” added Rossiter.

“It wasn’t that he rode rubbish, he got a decent second place in one of his rides, he just got an exclusion in one race and then got knocked off by his team-mate in another. You can’t really read too much into that.

“Luckily, when someone has one of those nights for us, someone else usually steps up, but I just wish they would all click together at the same time and make my life easier.”