Hull KR are out of the darkness and ready to end 40-year wait in Challenge Cup final

Close calls in the past couple of years point to a team on the up and they are favourites to beat WarringtonFor a while around the 1980s, it must have felt like the good times were never going to end for Hull KR: Challenge Cup winners in 1980; winners of the old Premiership in 1981 and 1984; champions of England in 1979 and then again in 1984 and 1985.Legends like Roger Millward, Gavin Miller and George Fairbairn – men who are still revered on one side of Hull to this day – at the heartbeat of one of the finest sides in British rugby league’s history. But then, nothing. Darkness. One final defeat became two; two became three. There was relegation to the second division twice and then, in 1995, into the third tier 10 years on from their finest hours. Continue reading...

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