Nobody at Hull FC, particularly their head coach, will be getting carried away just yet. But perhaps the tide is turning at a club where lofty expectations can so often produce intolerable pressure.
With two wins from their opening nine games, the threat of relegation appeared seriously real for one of Super League’s biggest-spending clubs. But how quickly things change; back-to-back wins over Huddersfield and now, the league leaders, Wigan, and Hull are eight points clear of the bottom side, Wakefield. Defeat Trinity next week, and any talk of relegation will be all-but over, just a few weeks removed from the fear of dropping into the Championship feeling greater than ever.
