Hall sets try record as Hull KR beat Huddersfield

Betfred Super League

Hull KR (10) 32

Tries: Hiku 2, May, Parcell, Hall 2 Goals: Lewis 4

Huddersfield (6) 6

Tries: Marsters Goals: Russell

Ryan Hall scored a record-breaking 248th Super League effort arsenic Hull KR fought backmost to hit Huddersfield 32-6 astatine Craven Park.

Ethan Marsters’ early effort and an Olly Russell punishment put Huddersfield up earlier Tyrone May teed up a levelling people for Peta Hiku and past produced a superb decorativeness to springiness Rovers a 10-6 lead astatine nan break.

Matt Parcell’s early second-half people and a 2nd Mikey Lewis extremity quickly extended nan lead to 10 points and Hiku’s 2nd effort sealed triumph arsenic nan Giants wilted.

Huddersfield had Andre Savelio sent disconnected 70 minutes into his debut for an off-the-ball conflict pinch Elliot Minchella earlier 2 tries successful arsenic galore minutes took Hall past Danny McGuire arsenic Super League's all-time starring effort scorer.

A sixth successive location triumph keeps Rovers successful third, level pinch second-placed St Helens and wrong 2 points of leaders Wigan Warriors who narrowly squeezed past Castleford Tigers.

Huddersfield stay 4 points extracurricular nan play-off places successful eighth aft a 5th conclusion successful six Super League outings.

Hall had gone scoreless successful 3 Super League matches since moving wrong 1 of McGuire’s people of 247 tries against St Helens connected 4 May.

The 36-year-old winger looked for illustration he whitethorn person to hold different week to lucifer his erstwhile Leeds Rhinos team-mate’s mark, but connected 73 minutes, and pinch nan crippled already won, he collected Mikey Lewis's grubber footwear to move level pinch McGuire.

And pinch conscionable 2 minutes left, Lewis’s cut-out walk sent Hall racing distant into nan history books.

It sparked euphoria successful nan stands, and a poignant ceremony from nan grounds breaker arsenic Hall pointed to nan entity successful honour of his erstwhile team-mate Rob Burrows.

The feat successful itself was a fitting tribute to nan Leeds awesome conscionable a week aft his death.

Huddersfield were connected nan backmost ft from kick-off, but deed nan beforehand erstwhile Marsters intercepted May’s looping walk and sprinted nan magnitude of nan transportation to score.

Home frustrations intensified erstwhile a 3rd punishment conceded successful speedy succession gave Russell a elemental penalty.

Both sides waste and acquisition mistakes and penalties during a high-intensity first half, and erstwhile Jake Bibby coughed up possession wrong metres of his ain line, team-mate Adam Milner was sent to nan sin-bin for tackling Lewis arsenic he chased his ain footwear through.

While overmuch of Rovers’ pre-match attraction was fixed to Hall arsenic he chased nan elusive score, it was 2 pieces of sublime accomplishment from May that yet gave Rovers nan inaugural soon earlier nan break.

After Elliot Minchella was held up nether nan posts, Rovers yet exploited their man advantage erstwhile May slid done an angled grubber footwear for Hiku to transverse unchallenged.

May was past progressive successful a flowing Rovers move earlier capping it pinch a flying one-handed decorativeness successful nan correct corner.

Rovers put nan hammer down consecutive aft nan restart, keeping nan shot live superbly for Parcell to speech passes pinch Dean Hadley earlier nan hooker’s arcing tally took him to nan line.

May was erstwhile again influential successful Rovers’ decisive 4th try, his break and neat offload allowing Niall Evalds to burst clear and provender Hiku for his 2nd people of nan night.

With triumph secure, each that was near to adhd was nan gloss - and Hall duly obliged.

Hull KR: Evalds, Broadbent, Hiku, Opacic, Hall, May, Lewis, Sue, Litten, Whitbread, Hadley, Batchelor, Minchella.

Interchanges: Parcell, Luckley, Storton, Tanginoa.

Huddersfield: Lolohea, Halsall, Marsters, Naiqama, Bobby, Russell, Clune, Hill, Milner, Greenwood, Hewitt, Rushton, Yates.

Interchanges: Golding, Wilson, Savelio, Ikahihifo.

Sin-bin: Milner (27).

Sent-off: Savelio (70).

Referee: Tom Grant.