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 cruised to their first league win of 2026 as they dispatched winless Huddersfield Giants.
After two defeats to start their campaign, the Robins went on early and never ever looked most likely to give up the 2 points.
Oliver Gildart, Tom Davies and Joe Burgess scored tries in the very first half before 2 from star guy Mikey Lewis after the break and another from Davies completed the task.
Hull KR's victory takes them approximately 12th, above Huddersfield, who sunk to the bottom of the table after a fourth consecutive loss.
The depleted Giants handled simply one second-half try through gifted young full-back George Flanagan Jr as they look set for another season of struggle.
Last year's treble winners have actually included the World Club title this season with their victory over Brisbane Broncos last month, but that sandwiched succeeding league defeats.
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 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 dropped the ball with a shot asking, however shortly after, winger Davies produced a smart finish in the corner.
Huddersfield completed 10th in 2015 however started that campaign with 10 straight beats and they have begun this one on the incorrect foot as well.
That appeared in managing mistakes within their own half, which handed the ball to their opponents and from Tyrone May's miss-pass, Burgess walked one in.
Lewis scored the try of the video game shortly into the 2nd duration with a hallmark specific effort as he danced and dummied his way over after choosing the ball up simply inside the Huddersfield half.
The Giants eventually got on the scoreboard when Flanagan brilliantly caught Tui Lolohea's high kick and touched down, however it came at a cost as the full-back, the scorer of 5 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 settled a slick handling move and Lewis got the final shot, accelerating his way over.
But as Super League takes a break for a week, these 2 sides will resume action next Saturday as they satisfy 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 minute is mega. We've got a lot of guys missing out on, so much experience.
"I can't question our effort, the effort is fantastic. But when you are missing out on that quality, you've got to be truly excellent with the ball and at the minute we're spending method too much ball and making things way too tough for ourselves.
"I think we completed at 65% in the first half. It doesn't matter which side you're playing against, when you give up that much ball, fatigue will embed in and it'll return to bite you."
"We desired to narrow our focus to our defence and competing hard.
"I believed our defence was really good today. That was an area we wished 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 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, .
Interchanges: Amone, Luckley, Whitbread, Martin.
Sin-bin: Lawton (64 )