Swindon boss Alun Rossiter expects his riders to put everything on the line in the opening leg of their play-off final at Wolverhampton on Monday.

Ryan Fisher and Paul Hurry are back in the Robins team, while Peter Karlsson is expected to return for Wolves.

"There's a league title on this, we've got to put everything on the line now," he told told BBC Wiltshire.

"Where before you think maybe you'll stay back, attitudes must change now and you've got to go for those gaps."

Swindon finished just ahead of Wolverhampton in the regular season, earning home advantage in the second leg, but it was Wolves who looked more impressive in the semi-finals.

They were comprehensive winners over Lakeside by an aggregate of 22 points, while the Robins' 12-point victory against Coventry was always much closer.

Rossiter knows there is not much to choose between the teams, but is confident Swindon are good enough to end their 42-year wait for the league title.

"It's justice that the top two teams are in this meeting, Wolverhampton look very good but I'm confident on the day we can fire ourselves up," he added.

"If you look at our last two meetings we lost by four [at Wolverhampton] but won by 11 [at Swindon] so if that was the final we'd be champions."

BBC Wiltshire will have full commentary of Wolverhampton v Swindon on 103.6 FM and at bbc.co.uk/wiltshire from 1900 BST.

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