Leaders fire Arlington warning

8:14am Thursday 1st May 2008

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Eastbourne Eagles have been warned they could be heading for a first home defeat of the season.

That is the message from rival team manager Alun Rossiter as he prepares his table-topping Swindon Robins for their trip to Sussex on Saturday.

Swindon thumped Eastbourne 56-37 at Blunsdon on Monday night and Rossiter feels the return trip to Arlington, where his side lost in the Craven Shield at the start of the campaign, could not come at a better time. He said: "We've got to be confident we can win there.

"It's going to be a great meeting. Obviously Eastbourne will feel quite scorned and will want to turn us over quite heavily.

"We have got to be on our guard but we are not worried about going down there now.

"Maybe last year or the year before we would be a bit nervous going there but these guys are not worried one little bit. We have won at Belle Vue, we have won at Ipswich. Who says we can't win at Eastbourne?

"I'm not being cocky. It's just the confidence in the camp is sky high at the moment.

"We've got to keep that going."

Eastbourne co-promoter Bob Dugard is intrigued to see what the leaders are made of.

Dugard said: "Swindon have a big home track advantage. It will be very interesting to see how they perform at Eastbourne.

"If they come up with the goods here we have got to say they are title challengers."