ALUN Rossiter revealed he was ‘not bothered’ that last night’s Elite League trip to Poole was postponed due to a waterlogged track.

Swindon had beaten King’s Lynn and Coventry in the lead-up and the meeting with the Pirates would have been their third in seven days, with another clash against Coventry scheduled for Friday.

And team boss Rossiter was quite content to have the night off in what is a busy April for the Robins.

“It gives us time. I don’t know why we had so many meetings in one week anyway,” he said.

“I’m not bothered, we had meetings on Friday and Monday and are due to have one this Friday too.

“It spreads the fixtures out a bit which is good as sometimes I think we do too much.

“I’d like to see more of that because sometimes teams have so many meetings in a week and then later in the season they have a two or three-week break.”

The match-up with Poole is most likely to be rescheduled for June although no date has yet been announced.

Meanwhile, Rossiter has played down the ‘revenge factor’ after masterminding Swindon’s 54-39 triumph over Coventry on Thursday.

The ex-Bees boss guided the Robins to success in front of the Sky Sports cameras and he said: “I’m quite happy with the way things are going so far.

“People keep asking me about how it’s good to beat your old club. If it was the same management then probably, but it wasn’t.

“The management of Coventry now is not the one I agreed terms with when I went there, so I didn’t feel I had to prove a point.

“But it was nice to beat them and also catch up with a lot of the riders that were in my team.”

Robin Aspegren and Peter Kildemand both suffered heavy falls in the Bees victory but there are no concerns over the fitness of either ahead of the return fixture at Brandon on Friday.

Meanwhile, Rossiter has revealed his thinking behind the heat 15 selections of the last two meetings against Coventry and King’s Lynn.

Nick Morris and Simon Stead have been given the nod after impressive performances, while stellar reserve Kildemand has been made to wait for his chance.

“The reason I thought Nick Morris deserved it against King’s Lynn was that he got paid 10 at Birmingham and then 10 at Swindon from the number two position,” said Rossiter.

“It was a job well done so I thought it would be nice given that he didn’t expect it.

“I could have given it to Steady that night but I gave it to him against Coventry instead, because he looked progressive and was attacking it.”