Super League: Leeds Rhinos 36-12 Hull KR - Hosts coast to end-of-season win

Leeds Rhinos finished the regular 2021 Super League season with 13 wins from their 24 games

Leeds ended the regular Super League season with a comfortable win against Hull KR before the play-offs.

The hosts led 24-6 at half-time courtesy of tries from Robert Lui, Matt Prior, Tom Holroyd and Richie Myler, with Mikey Lewis scoring KR's only try.

James Donaldson went over under the sticks for Leeds' fifth try of the evening as they took control.

Ash Handley did well at the corner to add their sixth before Will Dagger ran in a late second for the visitors.

Before this week's round of fixtures, this match was primed to be a possible Super League play-off decider, with both sides vulnerable to losing their top-six spot.

Castleford's loss to Warrington on Thursday meant that the seventh-placed Tigers could no longer reach the play-off stage of the season, however.

The result means Leeds will travel to the DW Stadium to take on Wigan on Thursday in the first of next week's Super League play-off eliminators while Hull KR face Warrington a day after at the Halliwell Jones Stadium.

Despite the fact that both sides were already assured of a play-off spot before play started, the match began with a robust tempo, with Lui crashing over before Lewis' response.

Leeds' first-half performance helped them take control against the Robins, with Dagger's late score a rare highlight for the visitors despite the fact he looked to be struggling with a rib injury.

Leeds: Broadbent, T Briscoe, Newman, L Briscoe, Handley, Lui, Myler, Thompson, Leeming, Prior, Gannon, Martin, Smith.

Interchanges: Hurrell, Dwyer, Holroyd, Donaldson.

Hull KR: Dagger, Crooks, Takairangi, Kenny-Dowall, Keinhorst, Lewis, Abdull, King, Parcell, Maher, Linnett, Johnson, Storton.

Interchanges: Sims, Litten, Mustapha, Tate.

Referee: C. Kendall

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