The Australian dreams of reaching his first major final but a ‘buzzing and confident’ Hull KR stand in his – Wembley – way in the last fourIt may be overstating the case to call Ashton Sims rugby league’s unluckiest player but in a 13-year career at the top of the sport the 30-year-feeble has endured the heartbreak of falling at the final hurdle more often than most.
Defeats in the NRL play-offs with three different teams and two World Cup semi-final defeats with Fiji,in 2008 and 2013, mean Sims has never appeared in a major final but he now stands within 80 minutes of breaking that duck when Warrington face Hull KR in the Challenge Cup semi-final on Saturday.
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Source: theguardian.com