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The Yorkshire Post's rugby league writer, James O'Brien, looks ahead to Round Six of Super League 2025 - including the Yorkshire derby between winless Huddersfield Giants and unbeaten Hull Kingston Rovers ...

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00:00There's an interesting one at the John Smith Stadium, Huddersfield hosting Hull KR. Hull

00:11KR with a perfect record, Huddersfield complete opposite, they haven't won a game yet. So

00:18you look at the form book, Hull KR go there, people will be expecting them to put a lot

00:23of points on Huddersfield but they've got a Challenge Cup quarter-final against bitter

00:27rivals Hull FC coming up on the horizon, that's next Saturday. So we could be forgiven

00:32for having one eye on that. It would be interesting to see Willy Peters' team selection, whether

00:36or not the rest of you, like Michael Lewis, players like that. But yeah, you would expect

00:41Hull KR to go there and rack up a bit of a score. Huddersfield were dismal at Salford

00:45last week, the worst performance of the season. But before that they were competing in games,

00:49they were up at half-time in every game. So if they play like they did before Salford

00:54they could catch Hull KR cold, for want of a better word. But you would expect Hull KR

01:01to go there and win. But it's an intriguing fixture all the same.

01:09Just for nostalgia, I'll go with Ryan Hull. He contributed to a huge win for Leeds against

01:15Wigan. Not many people expected Leeds to beat Wigan. I know Wigan are having a bit of an

01:20uncharacteristic wobble at the moment, they lost. They gave up a big lead to lose to Hull

01:24in the Challenge Cup. But Leeds did a bit of a number on them, they beat them up front,

01:29or they won that battle up front. And then they scored a couple of fortuitous tries.

01:34Ryan Hull's header laying on the winning try for Jack Sinfield, it was fitting that he

01:40should be involved even though it was bizarre. He's never done that before in his 499 games

01:45before that. But to do that on his 500th appearance and then he gave a great interview

01:49after the game, showed why he's so valuable to the sport. It was a great weekend for him

01:54and a great weekend for the Rhinos as well.

02:01Probably Rhinos see if they can back up. Consistency has been a big issue for

02:06Leeds for a number of years now. So if they can go to Warrington and beat them up on the

02:12back of beating Wigan, that would be a huge step forward and show some real progress.

02:18They've been a bit all over the place early in the season with injuries and stuff like that.

02:23But if they can get to the end of March with another big win in the bag,

02:27that would set them up for a strong season.

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