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 2 beats to begin their campaign, the Robins went on early and never looked most likely to relinquish the two points.


Oliver Gildart, Tom Davies and Joe Burgess scored attempts in the very first half before 2 from star male Mikey Lewis after the break and another from Davies finished the job.


Hull KR's success takes them approximately 12th, above Huddersfield, who sunk to the bottom of the table after a 4th successive loss.


The depleted Giants managed simply 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 victory over Brisbane Broncos last month, but that sandwiched successive league beats.


The shock loss to newcomers 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 began this game, bottom of the table and currently 8 points adrift of early leaders Wigan Warriors.


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


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


That was obvious in handling errors 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 2nd period with a hallmark individual effort as he danced and dummied his way over after selecting the ball up just inside the Huddersfield half.


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


And it was only a short-lived blip for the Robins as Davies settled a slick handling relocation and Lewis got the final shot, accelerating his method over.


But as Super League takes a break for a week, these two sides will resume action next Saturday as they reunite at the 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 moment is mega. We have actually got many men missing, a lot experience.


"I can't question our effort, the effort is terrific. But when you are missing that quality, you've got to be really good with the ball and at the minute we're spending 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 betting, when you quit that much ball, tiredness will set in and it'll come back to bite you."


"We wanted to narrow our focus to our defence and contending hard.


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


"It wasn't ideal, we've got some work to do but it was an action in the best 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 )