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 campaign, the Robins proceeded early and never looked most likely to relinquish the 2 points.
Oliver Gildart, Tom Davies and Joe Burgess scored tries in the first half before 2 from star man Mikey Lewis after the break and another from Davies completed the job.
Hull KR's success takes them as much as 12th, above Huddersfield, who sunk to the bottom of the table after a fourth successive loss.
The diminished Giants managed just one second-half shot through gifted 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 victory over Brisbane Broncos last month, however 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 playing catch-up in Super League and they started this video game, bottom of the table and already 8 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 asking, but soon after, winger Davies produced a clever surface in the corner.
Huddersfield finished 10th in 2015 however began that campaign with 10 straight defeats and they have started this one on the incorrect foot also.
That appeared in handling errors 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 shot of the video game shortly into the 2nd duration with a trademark specific effort as he danced and dummied his method over after choosing the ball up simply inside the Huddersfield half.
The Giants eventually 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 five of his side's eight Super League attempts in 2026, hurt himself on landing.
And it was just a temporary blip for the Robins as Davies settled 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 2 sides will resume action next Saturday as they reunite at the exact 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 a lot of men missing, so much experience.
"I can't question our effort, the effort is terrific. But when you are missing out on that quality, you have actually got to be truly great with the ball and at the moment we're spending method excessive ball and making things way too challenging for ourselves.
"I believe we finished at 65% in the first half. It doesn't matter which side you're playing against, when you quit 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 completing hard.
"I believed our defence was really excellent today. That was a location we wished to tighten up and we did that.
"It wasn't perfect, we've got some work to do but 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 )
