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 two beats to start their campaign, the Robins proceeded early and never looked likely to relinquish the two points.
Oliver Gildart, Tom Davies and Joe Burgess scored attempts 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 success takes them up to 12th, above Huddersfield, who sunk to the bottom of the table after a fourth successive loss.
The depleted Giants handled simply one second-half try through talented young full-back George Flanagan Jr as they look set for another season of battle.
In 2015's treble winners have added the World Club title this season with their triumph over Brisbane Broncos last month, however that sandwiched succeeding league beats.
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 game, bottom of the table and already eight 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 dropped the ball with a try pleading, however shortly after, winger Davies produced a clever surface in the corner.
Huddersfield finished 10th in 2015 but started that campaign with 10 straight defeats and they have actually started this one on the incorrect foot also.
That was evident in handling mistakes 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 try of the game quickly into the 2nd duration with a trademark specific effort as he danced and dummied his method over after selecting the ball up simply 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 8 Super League tries in 2026, hurt himself on landing.
And it was just a short-lived blip for the Robins as Davies settled a slick handling move and Lewis grabbed the last try, accelerating his way over.
But as takes a break for a week, these two 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 told BBC Radio Leeds:
"Our effort at the minute is mega. We've got many men missing, a lot experience.
"I can't question our effort, the effort is excellent. But when you are missing out on that quality, you have actually got to be actually good with the ball and at the minute we're coughing up method excessive ball and making things way too tough for ourselves.
"I think we finished at 65% in the first half. It does not matter which side you're betting, when you provide 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 contending hard.
"I believed our defence was truly excellent today. That was an area we wanted to tighten up and we did that.
"It wasn't ideal, we have actually 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 )