Will it be a case of third time’s the charm for Sam Burgess’ Warrington?<\/p>\n
Under his stewardship, Warrington have reached the past two Challenge Cup finals.<\/p>\n
But if they are to reach Wembley again they will have to get past last year’s victors Hull KR.<\/p>\n
The Wire have a number of high-profile absentees, including captain George Williams’ lengthy absence with a neck injury, while full-back Cai Taylor-Wray is out for six weeks with an ankle problem.<\/p>\n
“The past couple of times we’ve played each other, barring last year’s final, we’ve been pretty decimated and we’re missing some key guys,” Burgess told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
“But we’ll be ready for a good contest on Sunday and I’m looking forward to Hull KR at their best.”<\/p>\n
Warrington have lost their past five games in a row against Hull KR and Burgess suggested he might have to lean on the younger members of his squad.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s nice to have some young lads in there, sort of the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at the contest and everything that comes with it,” Burgess added.<\/p>\n
“I think that’s always exciting as well, seeing the younger players go through these weeks. It’s exciting for them and the build-ups are good to watch, but certainly the experienced boys need to stand up this weekend.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will it be a case of third time’s the charm for Sam Burgess’ Warrington? Under his stewardship, Warrington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-573266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}