Hull KR Beat Huddersfield For Very First Super League Win

ByAdam Lanigan
BBC Sport England


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Huddersfield (0) 6


Try: Flanagan Goal: Russell


Hull KR (16) 32


Tries: Gildart, Davies 2, Burgess, Lewis 2 Goals: Lewis, Martin 3


Champions Hull KR travelled to their first league win of 2026 as they dispatched winless Huddersfield Giants.


After 2 defeats to begin their project, the Robins went ahead early and never ever looked most likely to give up the 2 points.


Oliver Gildart, and Joe Burgess scored tries in the very first half before two from star male Mikey Lewis after the break and another from Davies finished the task.


Hull KR's triumph takes them up to 12th, above Huddersfield, who sunk to the bottom of the table after a fourth consecutive loss.


The diminished Giants managed simply one second-half try through gifted young full-back George Flanagan Jr as they look set for another season of battle.


Last year's treble winners have added the World Club title this season with their victory over Brisbane Broncos last month, however that sandwiched succeeding league defeats.


The shock loss to beginners York Knights and the 58-6 hammering by Leeds Rhinos in Las Vegas have actually left them playing catch-up in Super League and they started this game, bottom of the table and already 8 points adrift of early leaders Wigan Warriors.


But Gildart's shot inside 3 minutes got them up and running at the Accu Stadium. Jez Litten dropped the ball with a try begging, but shortly after, winger Davies produced a smart surface in the corner.


Huddersfield finished 10th in 2015 but started that project with 10 straight defeats and they have started this one on the wrong foot as well.


That appeared in dealing with mistakes within their own half, which handed the ball to their opponents and from Tyrone May's miss-pass, Burgess walked one in.


Lewis scored the shot of the game quickly into the second duration with a hallmark specific effort as he danced and dummied his method over after picking the ball up simply inside the Huddersfield half.


The Giants ultimately got on the scoreboard when Flanagan brilliantly caught Tui Lolohea's high kick and touched down, but it came at an expense as the full-back, the scorer of 5 of his side's eight Super League attempts in 2026, hurt himself on landing.


And it was just a temporary blip for the Robins as Davies rounded off a slick handling move and Lewis grabbed the final shot, accelerating his method over.


But as Super League takes a break for a week, these 2 sides will resume action next Saturday as they satisfy once again at the exact same ground in the last-16 of the Challenge Cup (15:00 GMT).


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Huddersfield Giants head coach Luke Robinson informed BBC Radio Leeds:


"Our effort at the minute is mega. We've got so numerous men missing out on, a lot experience.


"I can't question our effort, the effort is excellent. But when you are missing that quality, you've got to be truly good with the ball and at the minute we're coughing up method excessive ball and making things way too hard for ourselves.


"I think we completed at 65% in the very first half. It doesn't matter which side you're betting, when you quit that much ball, tiredness will set in and it'll return to bite you."


"We wished to narrow our focus to our defence and competing hard.


"I thought our defence was actually good today. That was an area we wanted to tighten up and we did that.


"It wasn't perfect, we've got some work to do however it was a step in the right instructions."


Huddersfield: Flanagan; Zenon, Gagai, Milne, Carr; Lolohea, Russell; Patolo, Rush, T Burgess, O'Donnell, Billington, English.


Interchanges: Powell, Rogers, King, Cozza.


Hull KR: Broadbent; Davies, Hiku, Gildart, J Burgess; Lewis, May; Sue, Litten, Hadley, Lawton, Batchelor, Minchella.


Interchanges: Amone, Luckley, Whitbread, Martin.


Sin-bin: Lawton (64 )