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 2 defeats to start their project, the Robins proceeded early and never ever looked likely to give up the 2 points.
Oliver Gildart, Tom Davies and Joe Burgess scored tries in the first half before two from star guy Mikey Lewis after the break and another from Davies finished the job.
Hull KR's success takes them approximately 12th, above Huddersfield, who sunk to the bottom of the table after a fourth successive loss.
The diminished Giants managed simply one second-half shot through gifted young full-back George Flanagan Jr as they look set for another season of struggle.
In 2015's treble winners have actually included the World Club title this season with their accomplishment over Brisbane Broncos last month, but that sandwiched successive 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 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 faltered with a shot pleading, but quickly after, winger Davies produced a in the corner.
Huddersfield completed 10th in 2015 however began that campaign with 10 straight beats and they have actually begun this one on the wrong foot too.
That appeared in managing 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 video game shortly into the second duration with a trademark specific effort as he danced and dummied his method over after choosing 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 just a momentary blip for the Robins as Davies rounded off a slick handling move and Lewis grabbed the final try, accelerating his way 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 minute is mega. We've got so numerous men missing, a lot experience.
"I can't question our effort, the effort is terrific. But when you are missing that quality, you have actually got to be actually great with the ball and at the minute we're spending method too much ball and making things way too difficult for ourselves.
"I think we finished at 65% in the very first half. It does not matter which side you're betting, when you offer up that much ball, fatigue 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 really excellent 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 but it was an action in the ideal 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 )