Plucky Robins stun Wolves

Michael Dobson held his nerve with an injury-time conversion as Hull KR put a dent in Warrington's hopes of a top four finish with a 36-34 win at the Halliwell-Jones Stadium.

The scrum-half added the extras to Kris Welham's late, late try that completed a remarkable comeback from Rovers right at the death.

The Wolves looked to be on course for two crucial points in the battle to sort out the play-off places when Simon Grix's second try of the afternoon put them 34-18 up with eight minutes to play.

However, the Robins stunned their opponents in a frantic finish, Peter Fox bagging a brace before Welham's score allowed Dobson to deny the home team at the last.

Bitter blow

Defeat will be a bitter blow for Warrington after they had been beaten in similar circumstances by St Helens last time out.

Chris Hicks kicked five conversions for the hosts and also grabbed the opening try of the contest after four minutes.

Typifying the see-saw nature of the match, Rovers responded in impressive fashion, Jake Webster finding his way to the line and Dobson converting before adding a penalty to make it 8-4.

Back came Warrington, though, Welham's poor tackle on Chris Riley being punished when Lee Briers dummied his way over. The Hull KR centre was also placed on report over the incident.

Welham did manage to make amends shortly after with the first of his double only for another bad challenge, again on the unfortunate Riley, led to a try for Ben Westwood.

Healthy cushion

After Martin Gleeson darted through straight from a scrum, Hicks' third goal meant the Wolves went in at half time with a healthy 22-12 cushion.

Simon Grix's opening effort after the break extended the gap even further and at that stage it seemed certain that Rovers would be suffer an eighth defeat in their last 10 outings.

But with Paul Cooke thrown on from the bench the visitors somehow climbed off the canvas, starting with a Cockayne try from a Ben Galea kick.

Even though a Briers 40-20 led to Grix's second the Robins refused to be beaten, Fox capitalising on a blunder by Kevin Penny to start a crazy closing six minutes to a pulsating match.

The England international then sprinted 70 metres to score again and then Cooke, playing his second game back since being disciplined by the club, set up Welham to draw the away team level.

Dobson kept his cool to slot over his sixth kick of the afternoon to give Hull KR a superb success with the final kick.