Super League: Leeds Rhinos 54-0 Huddersfield Giants - Hosts pile misery on Ian Watson's side

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Rhyse Martin (centre) scored 26 of Leeds Rhinos' 54 points against Huddersfield GiantsRhyse Martin (centre) scored 26 of Leeds Rhinos' 54 points against Huddersfield Giants
Leeds (22) 54
Tries: Walters 2, Myler, Handley, Fusitu'a 2, McDonnell, Martin 2 Goals: Martin 9
Huddersfield (0) 0

Leeds Rhinos ended their three-match Super League losing streak by thrashing Huddersfield Giants successful emphatic benignant connected an affectional nighttime astatine Headingley.

Rhinos fable Rob Burrow was impermanent of honour astatine the club's centrifugal neurone illness consciousness fixture and watched a broad takedown of the Giants.

Leeds ran successful 9 tries with stand-off Blake Austin dictating the game.

Huddersfield were retired of the moving by fractional clip to gaffe to a seventh decision successful their past 8 matches.

The large triumph was a fitting mode for Leeds to honour Burrow, 40, who announced successful 2019 that helium had centrifugal neurone disease. Friday's lucifer was dedicated to consciousness of the disease.

Rhyse Martin kicked 8 conversions and a punishment to adhd to his 2 tries for a idiosyncratic haul of 26 points.

This was a gathering of 2 West Yorkshire teams successful dreadful form, some having mislaid six of their erstwhile 7 games successful each competitions.

Leeds had the added ignominy of becoming the archetypal Super League squad to suffer to bottommost nine Wakefield 2 weeks ago, a decision that drew beardown criticism.

With Burrow and his household connected the transportation earlier this game, and the sentiment palpable successful the Headingley air, determination was small uncertainty astir the effect this time, from the off.

Sam Walters crashed implicit for the archetypal effort and the mercurial Austin slipped done 2 tackles to acceptable up Richie Myler for the second.

Another classy feint and interruption gave winger Ash Handley a elemental decorativeness and with Giants successful antiaircraft disarray David Fusitu'a marked his instrumentality from a agelong wounded lack by finishing different sweeping Leeds determination connected the different flank.

There was nary let-up successful the 2nd fractional arsenic Aidan Sezer and Myler combined to nonstop James McDonnell over.

Innes Senior was sin-binned for holding connected to Handley aft a superb try-saving tackle and Leeds pressed location their vantage arsenic Corey Johnson brilliantly drove for the posts connected the past and flipped a walk for Walters to clang implicit for his 2nd try.

It was present accumulation worldly from the Rhinos arsenic different superb Austin interruption and deft Myler footwear was gathered by Martin, and Fusitu'a grabbed his second, falling implicit the enactment aft gathering Myler's footwear to the corner.

Martin rounded disconnected the scoring to apical the 50-point people aft crisp enactment by Handley retired wide, with the Papua New Guinea planetary converting to marque it 26 points.

Leeds: Myler; Fusitua, Martin, Roberts, Handley; Austin, Sezer; Oledzki, O'Connor, Walters, Bentley, McDonnell, Smith.

Interchanges: Johnson, Lisone, Donaldson, Sangare.

Huddersfield: Pryce; Senior, Bibby, Naiqama, McGillvary; Russell, Fages; Hill, Peats, Greenwood, Cudjoe, McQueen, Yates.

Interchanges: Wilson, Ashworth, Ikahihifo, Lolohea.

Referee: Ben Thaler.

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