Hull KR Beat Huddersfield For First Super League Win

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ByAdam Lanigan
BBC Sport England


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Huddersfield (0) 6


Try: Flanagan Goal: Russell


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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 2 beats to begin their project, the Robins went on early and never looked likely to give up the 2 points.


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


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


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


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


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 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 faltered with a shot begging, however soon after, winger Davies produced a smart surface in the corner.


Huddersfield finished 10th last year but began that campaign with 10 straight beats and they have actually begun this one on the wrong foot as well.


That appeared 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 shortly into the 2nd period with a trademark private effort as he danced and dummied his method over after selecting the ball up just inside the Huddersfield half.


The Giants eventually got on the scoreboard when Flanagan brilliantly captured 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 attempts in 2026, injured himself on landing.


And it was only a temporary 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 exact same ground in the last-16 of the Challenge Cup (15:00 GMT).


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Huddersfield Giants head coach Luke Robinson informed BBC Radio Leeds:


"Our effort at the moment is mega. We have actually got many guys missing, so much 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 truly good with the ball and at the minute we're coughing up method too much ball and making things way too challenging for ourselves.


"I believe we completed at 65% in the first half. It doesn't matter which side you're betting, when you provide up that much ball, fatigue will embed in and it'll return to bite you."


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


"I thought our defence was actually good today. That was a location we wished to tighten up and we did that.


"It wasn't perfect, we've got some work to do however it was a step in the best 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 )