HAVING earned the right to hold all of the aces for Friday’s Super League semi-final, Hull KR are now looking to make it count.

Head coach Willie Peters is looking to become the first man to lead the Robins into a summer-era Grand Final and after his side edged out last-four opponents Warrington Wolves to finish second in the Super League table, they are favourites to do so.

There was little to split the sides across the season both in terms of the table and the three games they played against each other, but Rovers finishing two points clear earned them a week off and the right to host this week’s semi-final at their Craven Park fortress.

Meanwhile, Warrington were being pushed all the way to golden point in their eliminator clash with St Helens and have had less than a week to recover.

Peters knows his old friend Sam Burgess, with whom he worked at South Sydney Rabbitohs, will have a plan around that but chose instead to focus on his own side’s preparations.

“It was a physical and intense game, which can take its toll on the body for sure,” he said of Wire’s eliminator victory.

“They will have a plan around that I’m sure but I’m not too concerned about what they do.

“We’ve had some good preparation going in and that’s what my focus is on.”

On his side’s week off, he added: “You’ve got to get the balance right. You want to freshen the players up – there’s no doubt about that – as it’s been a long season.

“The benefit of having that week off is you can do that, but they also need to be ready to play.

“It’s finding the balance of time away and recovering but when they’re in, we work hard.

“That’s what we’ve gone with and we’ve found it’s been effective in terms of where the players are with their energy levels at the moment.”

The three meetings this season have seen two Warrington wins – including at Craven Park back in March – and one for the Robins, which came in the last meeting between the two at The Halliwell Jones Stadium in August.

Indeed, Peters’ men inflicted what remains Wire’s heaviest defeat of the year in terms of points margin by winning 22-4 that night having lost 20-8 on the same ground in May and 22-20 on their own turf in Round Four.

“We’ve played them three times – in one of them there was a first half that we really weren’t happy with at all, and then we had two tight games,” the Robins boss said.

“It’s two very good teams going at it, there’s no doubt about that.

“We respect what Warrington have done all year and where they’re at, but we deserve to be where we are at the moment.

“We’ve got to prove why we finished where we did, we’re on a journey and it’s not finished yet.”