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


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


Oliver Gildart, Tom Davies and Joe Burgess scored attempts in the first half before 2 from star guy Mikey Lewis after the break and another from Davies completed the task.


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


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


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 game, bottom of the table and already 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 asking, however 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 wrong foot also.


That was evident in handling mistakes within their own half, which handed the ball to their challengers and from Tyrone May's miss-pass, Burgess strolled one in.


Lewis scored the try of the video game quickly into the 2nd duration with a trademark private effort as he danced and dummied his method over after choosing the ball up just inside the Huddersfield half.


The Giants ultimately got on the scoreboard when Flanagan brilliantly caught Tui Lolohea's high kick and touched down, but it came at an as the full-back, the scorer of five of his side's 8 Super League attempts in 2026, injured 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 final try, accelerating his way over.


But as Super League takes a break for a week, these 2 sides will resume action next Saturday as they fulfill again 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 moment is mega. We've got numerous guys missing out on, a lot experience.


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


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


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


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


"It wasn't perfect, we have actually 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 )