BY JOHN DAVIDSON
Hull KR’s Kane Linnett insists his team will be better for its display at Wembley despite losing in agonising fashion in golden point.
The Robins went down by one point in extra-time in the Challenge Cup final.
“100%. We’ll be better for that performance,” Linnett said.
“A lot of the younger boys haven’t played in a lot of big games. I thought we were in the game, we were in the fight. It was a real arm wrestle and could have gone the other way.
“Hopefully we can challenge for another trophy at the end of the year and that’s what we have to turn our attention to now.
“It’s got to hurt. We have to learn from it and put that hurt… we’ve got a game in five or six days and we just have to keep turning up for each other.
“The effort’s been there. We’ve had a few players out injured and the boys have been unbelievable.”
Hull KR had a chance to win the game in extra-time but Brad Schneider’s attempt was short.
“Yeah it wasn’t just his fault, the whole attacking set leading into that field goal was a bit off,” Linnett said.
“We probably went too one-out and we were probably too far out to kick a field goal from there. We probably should have just kicked it in the corner.
“We’ve been quite a few golden point games this year. Obviously we’ve come up with the result on previous occasions but today we just fell a bit short.
“I’m gutted but proud of the efforts of the boys.”
The Australian praised the Robins fans who turned up in big numbers in London.
“It was an amazing atmosphere, it was an amazing week,” he said.
“We really wanted to bring the Cup home for them but hopefully they’re proud of our efforts. We’re just disappointed we couldn’t get the job done.”
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