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Fans gather for Robins send-off ahead of cup final

Naj Modak
BBC News
Sally Fairfax & Matt Dean
BBC Radio Humberside
Reporting fromHull
BBC/Matt Dean A crowd of rugby fans with player Jared Waerea-Hargreaves. A woman at the front of the crowd is holding a mobile phone up in the air on the left and smiling. She has oversized black-framed spectacles on her face and is wearing a red bomber jacket over a red and white t-shirt. Her brown hair is tied up in a ponytail. She is holding a red and white rugby ball with the right hand and is standing next to a rugby player, who is smiling at towards the mobile phone. He is wearing a blue long-sleeved top with a red vertical stripe along the right of his chest.BBC/Matt Dean
Prop Jared Waerea-Hargreaves poses for a selfie with fans at Craven Park

Hundreds of Hull KR fans gathered at Craven Park to give players a huge send-off ahead of the Challenge Cup final at Wembley.

The Super League leaders face Warrington Wolves on Saturday and the club set off from their ground earlier to the sound of cheers as ers congregated in the rain.

This is the second time the Robins have been at Wembley in three seasons.

Laurie, who cheered the Robins when they last won the competition 45 years ago, was in the crowd with his granddaughter and said it felt "emotional" seeing the players embark on their trip to London.

BBC/Sally Fairfax Three Hull KR fans wearing red and white hooded sweatshirts. The woman on the right has long brown hair and is holding on to the back of a deck chair on which a child, who has their hood up, is sitting. The child is in the middle. On the left is a young girl who also has a hood up over her head. All three are smiling at the camera.BBC/Sally Fairfax
Kayleigh Parker-Lines (right), who was with her children, said the club was a "huge part of our lives"

Tearful, Laurie said: "My kids and grandchildren have never seen them win anything. I have, I'm lucky."

Last year he took his granddaughter, who was 10 months old at the time, to see Rovers play against Wigan Warriors in the Super League Grand Final at Old Trafford. But the club lost 9-2.

He said: "I will be in tears if they win".

BBC/Matt Dean Man with short hair wearing a navy blue sweatshirt. He is holding a puppet against his chest with his left hand.BBC/Matt Dean
Sean said Hull KR winning the Challenge Cup again would be a "dream come true"

Emma, another fan, said she and her family had to wait a "lifetime" for the Robins to succeed in the Challenge Cup final for a second time and she had high hopes the squad were "going to win".

"The club deserve it, the fans deserve it," she said.

All the build up and coverage of the game will be on BBC Radio Humberside.

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