I may be jumping the gun here before the obligatory settling-in period of 10 games is over, but what are everyone's thoughts about Franny's tenure so far as head coach?

IMO all in all he seems to be coping with difficult injury situation and doing well so far. He seems to have picked up from where Potter left off rather than taking us back to the baffling half-decade in which the club persisted with the lame-duck McNamara.

I was expecting a difficult season after all the turmoil at the club with some sort of coaching merry-go-round at the end of the season, with Cummins returning to Leeds, Brain Mac taking over England and McNamara returning to the Bulls after a strong but trophy-less outing in the WC. Perhaps this may not come to pass now. This message board needs McNamara back at the helm

I once played out in the pennine foothills. After a game you were gagging & often downed a shandy before hitting the ale. One of our lads ordered a pint of shandy, the barman said "No-one puts lemonade in my beer lad". Beer it was.

...FC after 11 games is definitely OK. manages a small squad, lack of props, injuries, brilliant motivation of Sammut to score a mere 30 points. And even if he had the full cap to spend, I believe he would still buy carefully, to fit his plan. So for now I am looking at the last 9 fixtures, 6 of them at home, ok some top teams there, but playing like this there will be some great games and hopefully attendances.

If we keep going like we are we can only get better and i think we will give wigan a real go next week (heres hoping), other teams seem to fall when they come knocking but think we have in built resilience atm and if we can get into them like leeds and hudds did should be a tasty encounter.

Looking at the remainder of the season think we should do ok to make the PO's could be 17-2-9 the way we are going, also happy that we havent been on the end of any tonkings yet 36-10 vs saints and 30-10 vs catalan dont seem to bad scores considering the others that have been going around.

FC doing a great job under the circumstances didnt think he would eclipse Potter of last season but he seems to be doing that, let him continue to build after this season, get some more money behind us attract the right peopl and players andwho knows could be the start of something special

Yesterday was a massive result,with,if I'm not mistaken,next 3 league games Wigan,Warrington,Leeds,we definately needed the 2 points yesterday

If we could get even just 2 points out of next 3 games,that would put us on 16 points after 14,games,I would say we should be looking to finish 6 or 7th

Not taking anything for granted,but can we finally start expecting better than fighting for 8th or 9th place or even 10th

Now that Gale is back as well,even better,and still Foster,Blythe and Bateman to come back

Happy days for a change,just need another 3 or 4000 on the gate to enjoy the good rugby on show

Impressed with how the team is going and even more impressed with how he sees the game and his comments in the press. I had a few reservations about whether he was the experienced man we needed but I am pleased to say that so far I have been proved wrong to have worried.

Just hope things are progressing off the field to allow him the budget to continue the improvement with the team. This side with a couple more quality additions would be a real handful for any side in SL.