Huddersfield Giants have appointed Jim Lenihan as their head coach after the departure of Luke Robinson.<\/p>\n
Super League’s bottom side have been without a permanent head coach after Robinson was sacked on 22 March.<\/a><\/p>\n Former Gold Coast Titans assistant Lenihan joins having previously played for the Giants in 1999, when he made 21 appearances.<\/p>\n “The Huddersfield Giants received some outstanding applications from candidates, but it was Lenihan’s vision for the club, which aligned with the club’s,” a statement said., external<\/a><\/p>\n He joins a side which has lost eight of their 10 Super League games in 2026 and are two points adrift at the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n Robinson replaced Ian Watson in 2024, and went on to lose his first nine matches in charge before earning a narrow victory against Hull FC at Magic Weekend last May.<\/p>\n Hampered by financial limitations, Robinson eventually guided the club to 10th in the final Super League standings last year, but was replaced on a temporary basis by Liam Finn until his successor was found.<\/p>\n Finn negotiated a shock win at Wigan<\/a> in his first game in charge and followed that with a win at newly promoted York<\/a> soon after.<\/p>\n Huddersfield have since lost three games in a row in a season that has also been hampered by injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huddersfield Giants have appointed Jim Lenihan as their head coach after the departure of Luke Robinson. Super League’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-573045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573045","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=573045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}