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 very first league win of 2026 as they dispatched winless Huddersfield Giants.


After two defeats to begin their campaign, the Robins went on early and never ever looked most likely to the 2 points.


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


Hull KR's triumph takes them up to 12th, above Huddersfield, who sunk to the bottom of the table after a 4th consecutive loss.


The diminished Giants handled just one second-half try through talented young full-back George Flanagan Jr as they look set for another season of struggle.


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


The shock loss to newbies 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 video game, bottom of the table and currently eight points adrift of early leaders Wigan Warriors.


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


Huddersfield finished 10th last year but began that campaign with 10 straight defeats and they have begun this one on the wrong foot also.


That was apparent 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 soon into the second duration with a trademark individual effort as he danced and dummied his way over after choosing the ball up simply inside the Huddersfield half.


The Giants eventually got on the scoreboard when Flanagan remarkably caught Tui Lolohea's high kick and touched down, but it came at a cost as the full-back, the scorer of 5 of his side's 8 Super League tries in 2026, hurt himself on landing.


And it was just a momentary blip for the Robins as Davies rounded off a slick handling move and Lewis got the last 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 very 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 numerous men missing out on, a lot experience.


"I can't question our effort, the effort is terrific. But when you are missing that quality, you have actually got to be truly great with the ball and at the minute we're spending method excessive ball and making things way too hard for ourselves.


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


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


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


"It wasn't perfect, we have actually got some work to do but it was a step in the ideal 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 )