{"id":402211,"date":"2026-02-01T11:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402211\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T11:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:40:11","slug":"hull-krs-hunger-vow-a-warning-to-super-league-as-rovers-set-out-clear-2026-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402211\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull KR’s ‘hunger’ vow a warning to Super League as Rovers set out clear 2026 target"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hull KR are ready to go again in 2026 with the new Super League season fast approaching.\"Captain<\/p>\n

Captain Elliot Minchella in pre-season training.(Image: Hull KR)<\/p>\n

Hull KR\u2019s influential leader Elliot Minchella insists last year\u2019s ultimate glory will not distract the team from the present, with a fresh mindset to achieve success again in 2026 and a determination not to rest on their laurels.<\/p>\n

The club\u2019s latest young recruits have already helped set a new tone at Sewell Group Craven Park<\/a>, led by the likes of Jack Charles, Tom Whitehead and Declan Murphy. Their arrival has kept the established first-team stars on their toes across pre-season, while the hunger to continue lifting silverware remains high after the Robins\u2019 record-breaking 2025 season, which saw them complete a clean sweep of trophies.<\/p>\n

Hull KR<\/a> face one of the toughest starts to a campaign in recent memory, opening the new Super League season against newcomers York Knights, before the highly anticipated World Club Challenge against Brisbane Broncos, and the Las Vegas showdown with Leeds Rhinos. But the club is well prepared for every challenge ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year is gone, we know what we achieved and nobody can take that away from us,” Minchella told Hull Live.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something we\u2019ll speak about when we retire and that sort of stuff, but it\u2019s now time to go again and go after the 2026 year.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you\u2019ve achieved something and it feels good, you want to go and do it again – it\u2019s one thing saying it, but you\u2019ve got to go and do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody is going to hand you success, you\u2019ve got to earn it. I\u2019d like to think we pride ourselves on that, and the proof will be in the pudding when we play, but the team is hungry.”<\/p>\n

A sell-out crowd is expected at the MKM Stadium on February 19, in one of the biggest rugby league<\/a> events the City of Hull has ever seen. Some of the game\u2019s biggest names will travel to England from Australia later this month, with Brisbane Broncos going all out in their preparations to claim the World Club Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michael Maguire\u2019s side will fly to London on February 10 and base themselves at The Lensbury, a high-performance resort in southwest London. They will hold a training session with ambitious Championship outfit London Broncos before a further session with Hull FC<\/a>, all in preparation to face Super League\u2019s reigning champions.<\/p>\n

For loose forward Minchella, the landmark occasion will be a dream come true in front of a sell-out crowd, with tickets snapped up in record time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re the games you dream about playing in,\u201d Minchella added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m grateful we\u2019re going to be involved, but we\u2019re hungry and we\u2019re going there to win. We\u2019ll respect the opposition, they\u2019re champions in their competition.<\/p>\n

“I also think it\u2019s great to have it in Hull, the city will be bouncing all week – then a packed house, which was sold out within minutes. There’s bags of excitement for it, and a great start to the year for us with that and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really privileged to be in these games and be a part of it with this club, it\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull KR are ready to go again in 2026 with the new Super League season fast approaching. Captain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20372,5903,20370,101,20373,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-402211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-hull-kr","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-super-league","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}