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 two defeats to start their project, the Robins went on 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 job.
Hull KR's victory takes them approximately 12th, above Huddersfield, who sunk to the bottom of the table after a 4th successive loss.
The diminished Giants handled simply one second-half shot through skilled young full-back George Flanagan Jr as they look set for another season of struggle.
In 2015's treble winners have actually added the World Club title this season with their triumph over Brisbane Broncos last month, however that sandwiched succeeding league beats.
The shock loss to beginners 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 started this game, bottom of the table and already 8 points adrift of early leaders Wigan Warriors.
But Gildart's shot inside three minutes got them up and running at the Accu Stadium. Jez Litten dropped the ball with a shot begging, however shortly after, winger Davies produced a smart finish in the corner.
Huddersfield finished 10th last year however began that campaign with 10 straight defeats and they have started this one on the wrong foot as well.
That appeared 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 try of the game quickly into the 2nd duration with a hallmark specific effort as he danced and dummied his method over after the ball up simply inside the Huddersfield half.
The Giants eventually got on the scoreboard when Flanagan remarkably captured Tui Lolohea's high kick and touched down, however it came at a cost 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 only a momentary blip for the Robins as Davies settled a slick handling relocation and Lewis got the last shot, 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 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 informed 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 out on that quality, you have actually got to be really excellent with the ball and at the minute we're spending method excessive ball and making things way too hard for ourselves.
"I believe we finished at 65% in the first half. It doesn't matter which side you're betting, when you give up that much ball, tiredness will embed in and it'll come back to bite you."
"We wished to narrow our focus to our defence and competing hard.
"I believed our defence was actually excellent 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 right 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 )