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 went on early and never ever looked likely to give up the two points.
Oliver Gildart, Tom Davies and Joe Burgess scored attempts in the first half before two from star man Mikey Lewis after the break and another from Davies finished the task.
Hull KR's victory takes them as much as 12th, above Huddersfield, who sunk to the bottom of the table after a fourth consecutive loss.
The diminished Giants handled just one second-half try through skilled young full-back George Flanagan Jr as they look set for another season of struggle.
Last year's treble winners have added the World Club title this season with their triumph over Brisbane Broncos last month, but that sandwiched successive league beats.
The shock loss to newbies York Knights and the 58-6 hammering by Leeds Rhinos in Las Vegas have left them 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 3 minutes got them up and running at the Accu Stadium. Jez Litten dropped the ball with a shot pleading, but soon after, winger Davies produced a wise finish in the corner.
Huddersfield finished 10th in 2015 but started that campaign with 10 straight beats and they have started this one on the wrong foot also.
That appeared in handling mistakes within their own half, which handed the ball to their challengers and from Tyrone May's miss-pass, Burgess strolled one in.
Lewis scored the shot of the video game shortly into the 2nd duration with a hallmark specific effort as he danced and dummied his method over after choosing the ball up just 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 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 relocation and Lewis grabbed the final shot, 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 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 numerous 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've got to be actually great with the ball and at the minute we're coughing up method too much 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 offer up that much ball, fatigue will set in and it'll return 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 wished to tighten up and we did that.
"It wasn't ideal, we have actually got some work to do however it was an action in the right 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 )