Hull KR Beat Huddersfield For 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 travelled to their first league win of 2026 as they dispatched winless Huddersfield Giants.
After two defeats to start their project, the Robins went ahead early and never looked most likely to relinquish the 2 points.
Oliver Gildart, Tom Davies and Joe Burgess scored attempts in the very first half before 2 from star male Mikey Lewis after the break and another from Davies completed the task.
Hull KR's triumph takes them as much as 12th, above Huddersfield, who sunk to the bottom of the table after a 4th consecutive loss.
The diminished Giants handled just 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 added the World Club title this season with their accomplishment over Brisbane Broncos last month, however that sandwiched succeeding league beats.
The shock loss to newbies York Knights and the 58-6 hammering by Leeds Rhinos in Las Vegas have left them playing catch-up in Super League and they began this video game, bottom of the table and currently eight 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 try asking, however shortly after, winger Davies produced a smart finish 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 also.
That appeared in handling errors 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 shot of the video game quickly into the 2nd period with a hallmark specific effort as he danced and dummied his way over after picking the ball up just inside the Huddersfield half.
The Giants ultimately got on the scoreboard when Flanagan brilliantly captured Tui Lolohea's high kick and touched down, but it came at an expense as the full-back, the scorer of 5 of his side's eight Super League tries in 2026, injured 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 shot, accelerating his method over.
But as Super League takes a break for a week, these two 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 moment is mega. We've got so lots of males missing, so much 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 great with the ball and at the moment we're spending method excessive ball and making things way too challenging for ourselves.
"I think we finished at 65% in the very first half. It doesn't matter which side you're playing versus, when you offer up that much ball, tiredness 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 truly excellent today. That was an area 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 ideal instructions."
Huddersfield: Flanagan; Zenon, Gagai, Milne, Carr; Lolohea, Russell; Patolo, Rush, T Burgess, O'Donnell, Billington, .
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 )