'It's Unreal' Say Hull KR Fans In Las Vegas

28 February 2026
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Matt DeanEast Yorkshire and Lincolnshire


Countless Hull Kingston Rovers fans have gotten here in Las Vegas ahead of the team's Super League clash with Leeds Rhinos later.


Supporters from both sides took to the Strip, the primary street in the US betting capital.


Life-long fan Richard Major explained the idea of the in Vegas as "definitely unbelievable".


The previous soldier has actually supported the group for more than thirty years and flew to Nevada from his home in North Yorkshire.


"All those years of following them around and like the majority of the time getting walloped, to be truthful, and not being great, not expecting a lot," he stated.


"And after that to come complete circle and now to be world champs and be playing in Vegas. It's quite unbelievable, to be truthful."


Another fan made the trip with his household from Sydney.


Simon Latus matured in east Hull and emigrated to Australia in 2020. He said living Down Under indicated not having the ability to see the Robins play, so when the match was announced he got the possibility to go.


"This is never going to happen once again," he stated.


"Rovers in Vegas is a ridiculous idea in itself, just even stating those words appears a bit crazy.


"So I think simply making that effort of the thousands of dollars on the flight and bringing the household throughout, my partner and my boy. I just believe it is among those where you just can't state no to it."


Latus said he was delighting in soaking up the atmosphere in the desert city with "countless red and white all over".


Another Sydney-based fan, Leonard Gregory, stated it was "the shortest range I've ever travelled for a Robins' home video game".


Gregory ended up being thinking about the team after he and his partner paid a check out to Craven Park throughout the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.


He flew from Australia to see the team win the Grand Final in 2015.


"When it got revealed that we were going, we booked the flight directly away," he stated.


"We 'd never ever been here. It's probably everything that America is in a microcosm and it's just, it's surreal."


Match protection of the video game at the Allegiant Stadium is on BBC Radio Humberside and BBC Sounds from 23:45 GMT on Saturday.


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