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 2 beats to start their project, the Robins went ahead early and never ever looked most likely to give up the two points.


Oliver Gildart, Tom Davies and Joe Burgess scored attempts in the very first half before 2 from star man 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 fourth consecutive loss.


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


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


The shock loss to newcomers York Knights and the 58-6 hammering by Leeds Rhinos in Las Vegas have left them playing catch-up in Super League and they began this video game, bottom of the table and currently 8 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 pleading, but shortly after, winger Davies produced a clever surface in the corner.


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


That was obvious in dealing with 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 duration with a trademark individual effort as he danced and dummied his way over after choosing the ball up just inside the Huddersfield half.


The Giants ultimately got on the scoreboard when Flanagan brilliantly captured Tui Lolohea's high kick and touched down, however it came at an expense as the full-back, the scorer of 5 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 rounded off a slick handling relocation and Lewis grabbed the final try, accelerating his method over.


But as Super League takes a break for a week, these two sides will resume action next Saturday as they fulfill once again at the very same ground in the last-16 of the (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 have actually got so many males missing out on, a lot experience.


"I can't question our effort, the effort is great. But when you are missing that quality, you've got to be actually great with the ball and at the moment we're coughing up way excessive ball and making things way too challenging for ourselves.


"I believe we finished at 65% in the first half. It doesn't matter which side you're playing versus, when you provide up that much ball, tiredness will set in and it'll come back to bite you."


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


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


"It wasn't best, we have actually 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 )