HULL KR forward Stanley Gene has his heart set on fulfilling a lifetime ambition - at the expense of Warrington Wolves.

The Papua New Guinea international is desperate to grace Wembley's hallowed turf during a Challenge Cup final and believes this year is his best chance to do it before the end of his career.

Rovers face Wolves in the competition's quarter finals at Craven Park on Saturday, kick off 5.30pm, with both teams enjoying a rich vein of form.

And Gene, who played once at the old Wembley in the 1997 Plate final, is in confident mood.

He said: "I’m getting older and I don’t think there’ll be another chance like this for me. It will probably be the only opportunity for me to get to the new Wembley stadium and play in a Carnegie Challenge Cup final.

"I’d love to get to Wembley with Hull KR. We’ve got a great chance of getting there but we need to concentrate.

"We’re looking forward to hopefully getting a good win but so will be Warrington. They’ll be full of confidence too.

"I’ve been to the old Wembley in 1997 for the Plate Final with Hull KR. I’d only just arrived in England during the year before and I wasn’t aware of how important Wembley was.

"I remember the whole week leading up to the game because all the players were just talking about being at Wembley.

"At full time I can remember looking around and seeing my team mates pinching bits of the Wembley turf.

"I came over in 1996 and watched the St Helens-Bradford Challenge Cup final.

"When we played at Wembley in 1997 I’d only just come back from a trip home to PNG where we play on rock hard surfaces. Playing at Wembley felt like playing on a carpet to me.

"It will be great if we get there this year but we’ve still got a couple more games to go."

Rovers are currently second in the Super League table, only a point behind leaders St Helens.

The Robins are on a run of five consecutive wins but Gene is under no illusions about the magnitude of the task ahead, Warrington having won four of the last five games themselves.

He said: "The club is going very well this year but we have to take every game as it comes. When you’re winning, confidence is always high, but we know how easy it is to lose games.

"Over the last couple of years we’ve sometimes been in a dark tunnel where you lose three or four games in a row and it’s hard to get out of that. Now our form is good we want to keep our feet on the ground.

"Warrington are a really good side. They have internationals all over the park and Tony Smith is a great coach.

"It will probably take him some time to get a team to gel together but they’re winning games that a couple of months ago they might have lost.

"They know how to grind out a win and we won’t take them lightly. Cup games are one offs and you have to be ready."