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
KR cruised to their very first league win of 2026 as they dispatched winless Huddersfield Giants.
After 2 beats to begin their campaign, the Robins went on early and never looked likely to give up the two points.
Oliver Gildart, Tom Davies and Joe Burgess scored tries in the very first half before 2 from star man Mikey Lewis after the break and another from Davies completed 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 handled just one second-half try through talented 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 accomplishment 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 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 quickly after, winger Davies produced a smart finish in the corner.
Huddersfield completed 10th in 2015 however began that campaign with 10 straight defeats and they have started this one on the incorrect foot too.
That was apparent in managing mistakes 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 try of the video game quickly into the second period with a trademark private effort as he danced and dummied his way over after picking the ball up simply inside the Huddersfield half.
The Giants ultimately got on the scoreboard when Flanagan remarkably caught Tui Lolohea's high kick and touched down, however it came at an expense as the full-back, the scorer of five of his side's 8 Super League attempts in 2026, hurt himself on landing.
And it was just a momentary blip for the Robins as Davies settled a slick handling move and Lewis got the last 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 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 informed BBC Radio Leeds:
"Our effort at the minute is mega. We've got a lot of guys missing out on, so much experience.
"I can't question our effort, the effort is great. But when you are missing that quality, you've got to be truly excellent with the ball and at the moment we're spending way excessive ball and making things way too tough for ourselves.
"I think we finished at 65% in the very first half. It doesn't matter which side you're betting, when you give up that much ball, fatigue will set in and it'll come back to bite you."
"We wished to narrow our focus to our defence and completing hard.
"I thought our defence was truly good today. That was a location we wished to tighten up and we did that.
"It wasn't best, 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 )