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 defeats to begin their campaign, the Robins proceeded early and never looked most likely to relinquish the 2 points.


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


Hull KR's victory 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 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 beats.


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 started 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 faltered with a try pleading, but quickly after, winger Davies produced a wise surface in the corner.


Huddersfield ended up 10th in 2015 but began that project with 10 straight beats and they have started this one on the wrong foot too.


That was evident in dealing with 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 shot of the game soon into the second period with a trademark specific effort as he danced and dummied his method over after selecting the ball up just inside the Huddersfield half.


The Giants ultimately got on the scoreboard when Flanagan remarkably caught Tui Lolohea's high kick and touched down, but it came at a cost 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 momentary blip for the Robins as Davies rounded off a slick handling move and Lewis grabbed the last 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 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've got a lot of males missing, so much experience.


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


"I believe 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 wanted to narrow our focus to our defence and competing hard.


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


"It wasn't best, we have actually 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 )