Hull KR Beat Huddersfield For 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 cruised to their first league win of 2026 as they dispatched winless Huddersfield Giants.


After two defeats to start their project, the Robins went ahead early and never looked most likely to relinquish the 2 points.


Oliver Gildart, Tom Davies and Joe Burgess scored tries in the very first half before 2 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 just one second-half try through skilled young full-back George Flanagan Jr as they look set for another season of struggle.


In 2015's treble winners have included the World Club title this season with their accomplishment over Brisbane Broncos last month, however that sandwiched succeeding league defeats.


The shock loss to newbies York Knights and the 58-6 hammering by Leeds Rhinos in Las Vegas have left them playing catch-up in Super League and they started this video 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 with a shot asking, but quickly after, winger Davies produced a clever finish in the corner.


Huddersfield finished 10th in 2015 but started that campaign with 10 straight defeats and they have actually started this one on the incorrect foot also.


That appeared in managing errors within their own half, which handed the ball to their challengers and from Tyrone May's miss-pass, Burgess walked one in.


Lewis scored the shot of the game soon into the 2nd period with a hallmark specific effort as he danced and dummied his method over after selecting the ball up simply inside the Huddersfield half.


The Giants eventually got on the scoreboard when Flanagan brilliantly caught Tui Lolohea's high kick and touched down, however it came at a cost as the full-back, the scorer of five of his side's 8 Super League tries in 2026, injured himself on landing.


And it was only a momentary blip for the Robins as Davies settled a slick handling move and Lewis got the final try, accelerating his way over.


But as Super League takes a break for a week, these two sides will resume action next Saturday as they reunite 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 told BBC Radio Leeds:


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


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


"I think we completed at 65% in the very first half. It does not matter which side you're playing versus, when you quit that much ball, fatigue will set in and it'll come back to bite you."


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


"I believed our defence was really excellent today. That was a location we wished to tighten up and we did that.


"It wasn't best, we've got some work to do however it was an action in the right direction."


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 )