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 project, the Robins went ahead early and never ever looked most likely to relinquish the two points.
Oliver Gildart, Tom Davies and Joe Burgess scored tries in the first half before two from star guy Mikey Lewis after the break and another from Davies completed the task.
Hull KR's success takes them as much as 12th, above Huddersfield, who sunk to the bottom of the table after a 4th successive loss.
The diminished Giants managed just one second-half shot through talented young full-back George Flanagan Jr as they look set for another season of struggle.
Last year's treble winners have included the World Club title this season with their accomplishment over Brisbane Broncos last month, but that sandwiched succeeding league beats.
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 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 faltered with a shot pleading, however quickly after, winger Davies produced a clever finish in the corner.
Huddersfield finished 10th last year however started that project with 10 straight defeats and they have actually begun this one on the incorrect foot too.
That appeared in dealing with 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 shot of the game shortly into the second period with a hallmark specific effort as he danced and dummied his way over after selecting the ball up just inside the Huddersfield half.
The Giants eventually got on the scoreboard when Flanagan remarkably captured Tui Lolohea's high kick and touched down, however it came at an expense as the full-back, the scorer of five of his side's 8 Super League tries in 2026, hurt himself on landing.
And it was just a temporary blip for the Robins as Davies rounded off 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 2 sides will resume action next Saturday as they reunite at the very 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 many guys missing, so much experience.
"I can't question our effort, the effort is terrific. But when you are missing that quality, you have actually got to be truly excellent with the ball and at the minute we're spending way excessive ball and making things way too tough for ourselves.
"I believe we finished at 65% in the first half. It does not matter which side you're playing versus, when you quit 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 contending hard.
"I thought our defence was truly great today. That was a location we wanted to tighten up and we did that.
"It wasn't perfect, we have actually got some work to do but it was a step in the best 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, Minchella.
Interchanges: Amone, Luckley, Whitbread, Martin.
Sin-bin: Lawton (64 )