Tim Sheens has won a World Cup with Australia and four Grand Finals down under but winning promotion back to Super League with Hull Kingston Rovers was some achievement to mark his 700th club game in an illustrious coaching career. Sheens arrived at Craven Park after Hull KR’s dramatic relegation last year, but yesterday the 66-year-old veteran rightly savoured Rovers’ return to the top flight for 2018 after a fifth straight victory in the Super 8 Qualifiers. Win number 366 for Sheens meant as much to him as the Hull KR faithful, who had watched aghast as their team succumbed in extra-time to Salford in last year’s promotion-relegation playoff. They were again chewing fingernails yesterday as Widnes threw everything at Rovers in the final few…

Source: The Times September 10, 2017 00:11 UTC