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 travelled to their very first league win of 2026 as they dispatched winless Huddersfield Giants.
After 2 defeats to start their campaign, the Robins went ahead early and never 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 male Mikey Lewis after the break and another from Davies finished the job.
Hull KR's triumph takes them up to 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.
Last year's treble winners have actually included the World Club title this season with their accomplishment over Brisbane Broncos last month, however that sandwiched successive 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 game, bottom of the table and currently eight points adrift of early leaders Wigan Warriors.
But Gildart's try inside three minutes got them up and running at the Accu Stadium. Jez Litten dropped the ball with a try pleading, but quickly after, winger Davies produced a clever surface in the corner.
Huddersfield completed 10th in 2015 however began that project with 10 straight defeats and they have started this one on the incorrect foot too.
That was obvious 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.
the shot of the game soon into the second duration with a hallmark private effort as he danced and dummied his method over after picking the ball up simply inside the Huddersfield half.
The Giants ultimately got on the scoreboard when Flanagan remarkably caught Tui Lolohea's high kick and touched down, but it came at a cost as the full-back, the scorer of 5 of his side's eight Super League attempts in 2026, injured himself on landing.
And it was only a short-lived blip for the Robins as Davies settled a slick handling move and Lewis got the last try, 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 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 have actually got many men missing, 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 actually good with the ball and at the moment we're spending method excessive ball and making things way too hard for ourselves.
"I think we finished at 65% in the very first half. It does not matter which side you're betting, when you give up that much ball, tiredness will set in and it'll come back to bite you."
"We wished to narrow our focus to our defence and completing hard.
"I believed our defence was really great today. That was a location we desired to tighten up and we did that.
"It wasn't ideal, we've got some work to do however it was a step in the best 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 )