Trump in power. War in the Ukraine. Genocide in Palestine. The Labour Party mascarading as socialists. The world has gone mad, but Hull FC keep winning. Get in there brothers & sisters.
As others have said, it's a sign of how much progress has been made in such a short space of time that by the end of last night's game there was a slight air of deflated disappointment around the faithful. The second half became very scratchy and disjointed with all the interruptions and enforced changes happening.
But, we've now won five away games on the bounce having previously gone 18 months without so much as a sniff of one. We never seriously looked like losing last night, but our inability to not kick on in that second half did lead to the air of frustration around the place, which probably is how the likes of JC and Sezer felt about the outcome.
Next Saturday is clearly going to be a different ball game, and I do worry that we may find ourselves pinned back in our half for prolonged periods, unable to make metres against rovers stifling defence, but 9pts from a possible 12 is way above anything I thought we would come out of from the opening six games. Certainly, if we have learnt anything from these opening matches it's that this side will dig in and graft. It may not be very pretty at times but so far everyone has risen to each challenge set in front of them. Think we're going to need a good deal more of that attitude (in spades) next Saturday if we are to derail their hopes and dreams.
Two more points on the tally cementing our place inside the top-four! Who would have thought it 6/7 weeks ago? Bring on the next (big) challenge. We have hope and belief in ourselves once more, and that alone is significant progress on recent years.
It's good to be winning and beating those teams we're hoping to be above. Especially pleasing they've all been away. We're now coming into a difficult run of fixtures with a busted squad so will inevitably see some L's in the result's column. It's all about heart and desire from now and making sure we don't revert to type when things invariably start to get tougher.
I'm sure our start has surpassed internal expectations but it will mean nothing if we don't continue to compete.
I do now think there's every chance we can finish the season with a reasonable chance at 6th place if we can actually get everyone on the field at the same time consistently - doubtful though it is
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