"Players within the group are hurting and there's no better motivation, than trying make a final and coming off the performance that we did. "We need to look at how we're going to take their defensive unit on, because any smart team are going to look at what Lightning and Mavericks did to us in attack and they're going to try and replicate that. Andrew Butchart, CJ Ujah and Tom Bosworth have seen their funding cut. The England international will be at the helm and be supported on the bench by Louise Hopkin, Loughborough Lightning's U21 assistant coach.