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 very 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 ever looked most likely to relinquish the 2 points.
Oliver Gildart, Tom Davies and Joe Burgess scored tries in the first half before 2 from star male Mikey Lewis after the break and another from Davies completed the job.
Hull KR's success takes them approximately 12th, above Huddersfield, who sunk to the bottom of the table after a 4th successive loss.
The diminished Giants managed simply one second-half try through talented young full-back George Flanagan Jr as they look set for another season of battle.
Last year's treble winners have actually included the World Club title this season with their victory over Brisbane Broncos last month, however that sandwiched succeeding league defeats.
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 began this video game, bottom of the table and currently 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 faltered with a shot pleading, however shortly after, winger Davies produced a wise finish in the corner.
Huddersfield completed 10th in 2015 however began that project with 10 straight defeats and they have begun this one on the wrong foot as well.
That appeared in managing errors within their own half, which handed the ball to their challengers and from Tyrone May's miss-pass, Burgess strolled 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 method over after picking the ball up just inside the Huddersfield half.
The Giants eventually got on the scoreboard when Flanagan remarkably 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 8 Super League attempts in 2026, hurt himself on landing.
And it was only a short-term blip for the Robins as Davies rounded off a slick handling relocation and Lewis got the final try, accelerating his way 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 (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've got many males missing, so much experience.
"I can't question our effort, the effort is great. But when you are missing out on that quality, you've got to be really good with the ball and at the moment we're spending method too much ball and making things way too hard for ourselves.
"I believe we finished at 65% in the very first half. It doesn't matter which side you're playing against, when you quit 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 thought our defence was really good today. That was an area we wanted to tighten up and we did that.
"It wasn't perfect, we have actually got some work to do however it was a step in the right 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 )