LEICESTER and Pirates are set to race to a finish in the resheduled SGB Championship grand final tonight (5pm) with eight points between the teams.

The Pirates travel to Beaumont Park with a 49-41 advantage, having come back from 10 down midway through the first leg.

Both sides are unchanged from the that meeting, and the Lions will again be managed by Garry May, with regular boss Stewart Dickson having been taken ill earlier in the week.

Poole are looking to secure back-to-back league titles whilst the home side are seeking to reclaim the silverware they last won in 2019, prior to their step up to the Premiership next season.

May said: “I’ll be sticking with what (line-up) Stewart gave to me, I’ll gee the boys up and we’ll all be talking together.

“We talked as we went through the meeting on Wednesday about the track and so on, and we’ll do the same on Saturday.”

Pirates star Zach Cook said: “So long as we have blue skies it should be good.

"It probably would have been nicer to have a few more points on the board but it's an eight-point lead and we should be able to stop them eating into that.”