HANS Andersen has piled the pressure on semi-final foes Swindon ahead of tomorrow's decisive second leg, insisting: "They could easily get over-cocky."

Pirates must win by three points or more at Blunsdon to seal their place against Belle Vue or Wolverhampton in the SGB Premiership play-off final.

Alun Rossiter's troops have the upper hand given their 46-44 triumph at Wimborne Road a fortnight ago but skipper Andersen believes his team are capable of becoming the third team to secure victory at the Abbey Stadium this year – the only sides to achieve that feat being Belle Vue and King's Lynn.

Andersen told the Daily Echo: "We've got nothing to lose, it's Swindon's to lose.

"Being at their track, they could easily get over-cocky or over-confident and think 'this is a walkover', and sometimes when you do that it backfires.

"Hopefully, Rosco will give them a lot of praise and make them think it is over and done with already, but it isn't.

"As long as everyone puts in 100 per cent effort, we can't do any more. Overturning a two-point margin is do-able if we can hit them from the word go."

Andersen won the second of his two Elite League titles with Swindon in 2012. He scored 11 paid 12 points for the Robins in the home leg of the play-off final against Poole before picking up eight in the decisive second stanza.

That was the first of two straight seasons at Swindon for the Danish star and he has mixed feelings about returning to his old club (7.30pm).

He said: "I don't know if it's a track I favour, I've got good memories of the place but it's also a track where I've had a few dodgy meetings.

"I'm pretty happy I've had mostly successful meetings there and I'm hoping to go back and have another.

"That said, it's not about me having a good meeting, it's about the Poole Pirates having a good meeting. As soon as you run a last place, that's when heat advantages for the opposition are made.

"Everyone had a zero in the first leg and that was the key in Swindon winning. If we didn't have those zeros, we would have won."

Pirates will be hoping to avoid having their top-flight title bid scuppered by Rossiter for the third time in eight seasons.

In 2010, the 52-year-old improbably steered Coventry into the play-offs despite a dreadful start to the campaign, getting the better of Neil Middleditch and co in the final.

Two years later, Rossiter again sunk Poole in the final with a team containing the likes of Andersen, Peter Kildemand and Troy Batchelor, profiting from an injury crisis at the Dorset club.

Supporters can gain entry to the Abbey Stadium for the clash at reduced rates. Adults and concessions will pay £10 and those aged between 11 and 16 just £5, while under-11s get in free.