Huddersfield Giants have sacked head coach Luke Robinson after a poor begin to the 2026 Super League season.
Giants have misplaced all of their opening 5 matches, leaving them and not using a level and backside of the desk.
Former England worldwide Robinson, 41, made 228 Huddersfield appearances as a participant, and was in his second spell accountable for the membership.
“We have been re-setting the club – we’ve set about that prior to Christmas, driving the club forward off the field, but critically we need some on-field success as well,” Ralph Rimmer, Huddersfield’s director of change told the club website., external
“A fantastic man, Luke Robinson – a legend of this club and will remain so, but nevertheless this set of circumstances has brought about this change.”
Robinson grew to become Giants boss for a second time in September 2024, changing Ian Watson, and went on to lose his first 9 matches in cost earlier than lastly tasting success with a slender victory in opposition to Hull FC at Magic Weekend final May.
Hampered by monetary limitations, Robinson finally guided the membership to tenth within the last Super League standings final 12 months.
This season, he has needed to cope with quite a lot of accidents to key gamers, together with star full-back George Flanagan Jr, one in every of 16 first-team members who had been unavailable throughout an harm disaster labelled “unprecedented” by the membership earlier this month.
Robinson was left trying a forlorn determine following his side’s defeat by Bradford Bulls on Friday night time, which ended up being his last match in cost.
He beforehand, however briefly, acted as interim head coach of Giants through the finish of the Covid-affected 2020 season after Simon Woolford resigned, taking cost of the ultimate eight matches of the marketing campaign.
Director of rugby Andy Kelly will lead the primary workforce till Robinson’s successor is appointed.
Huddersfield proceed their Super League marketing campaign with a visit to league leaders Wigan on Saturday [15:00 GMT].
