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SurreySmashers' fans favourite Dean George wants his team mates to keep up theirimpressive form when they shoot for the inaugural NBL championship title nextmonth at K2 Crawley in Sussex - but knows they will be pushed all the way.

Withfour wins from five match-nights in the regular season, Surrey Smashers finishedtop going into the end of season showdown on Sunday 7 June. However, the Finals Day schedule sees them gointo an intriguing Play-Off with Loughborough Sport for the right to play forthe title.

LoughboroughSport won both their last two fixtures to finish in the final qualifying positionand George knows all too well that they pose a threat after the “thriller”during the regular season.

TheHorsham star, local to the K2, said “Loughborough are a strong team and thelast time we played them it was a thriller of a match that we managed to win3-2.So we know what they are capable ofand that we will have to be at our very best to match them and beat them”.

Backin December, the Smashers were forced to save ten match points to eventuallyfinish 3-2 winners in a fixture memorable for Soraya De Visch Eijbergen'sremarkable match-defining comeback from 8-2 down.

Georgesaid “They are going to be out for revenge and will want to get back at us forlosing last time around.I think we haveto be looking at it as a match we can win because at the end of the day we wantto be champions”.

“Tofinish [the season] the way we did was really pleasing but now we have got toerase the boardand start again.

Youhave to take confidence from what we did but at the end of the day we stillhave plenty of work to do.”

TheUK's first ever National Badminton League comes to a thrilling finale at K2Crawley on Sunday 7 June.

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