PAUL Starke has vowed there will be no shortage of desire from the Pirates septet when they head to in-form Swindon tonight.

Poole suffered their worst home defeat in eight years in losing 56-36 to Alun Rossiter's troops last week.

And Starke is desperate to avoid a repeat of that display at the Abbey Stadium, insisting his team are capable of bringing points back to Dorset.

He told the Daily Echo: "Swindon is a tough place to go and it has not been the best track for me, personally, but I'm sure I can turn that round and score some big points.

"It would be nice to go there and turn them over after they came here and did it to us. I'm sure all the boys will be fired up so we will go there and try to do what we can do.

"It seemed like they wanted it more last week and we can't let that happen again. We need to get some points at their place."

Swindon: (from) Jason Doyle, Tobiasz Musielak, Bradley Wilson-Dean, David Bellego, Nick Morris, Adam Ellis, Zach Wajtknecht.

Pirates: (from) Hans Andersen, Edward Kennett, Jack Holder, Richie Worrall, Timo Lahti, Paul Starke, James Shanes.