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 cruised to their first league win of 2026 as they dispatched winless Huddersfield Giants.


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


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


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


The diminished Giants managed simply one second-half try through skilled young full-back George Flanagan Jr as they look set for another season of battle.


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


The shock loss to newbies York Knights and the 58-6 hammering by Leeds Rhinos in Las Vegas have actually left them 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 3 minutes got them up and running at the Accu Stadium. Jez Litten dropped the ball with a shot pleading, however soon after, winger Davies produced a clever surface in the corner.


Huddersfield ended up 10th in 2015 but began that campaign with 10 straight defeats and they have begun this one on the wrong foot as well.


That was apparent in managing errors within their own half, which handed the ball to their opponents and from Tyrone May's miss-pass, Burgess strolled one in.


Lewis scored the try of the video game soon into the second period with a hallmark individual effort as he danced and dummied his way over after choosing the ball up simply inside the Huddersfield half.


The Giants ultimately got on the scoreboard when Flanagan remarkably captured Tui Lolohea's high kick and touched down, but it came at an expense as the full-back, the scorer of 5 of his side's eight Super League attempts in 2026, hurt himself on landing.


And it was just a short-term blip for the Robins as Davies settled a slick handling move and Lewis got the final try, accelerating his method over.


But as Super League takes a break for a week, these 2 sides will resume action next Saturday as they meet once again 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 have actually got many males missing out on, a lot experience.


"I can't question our effort, the effort is fantastic. But when you are missing out on that quality, you've got to be actually excellent with the ball and at the moment we're spending method too much ball and making things way too difficult for ourselves.


"I think we completed at 65% in the very first half. It does not matter which side you're playing against, 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 truly 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 an action in the ideal 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 )