If you're a Wigan Warriors fan right now, with seven wins from seven league games, the feeling should be one of complete delight.
But after their latest win, a 17-16 victory over Salford, the general feeling is one of frustration and unfulfillment.
Watching the Warriors right now is like going to your local chicken shop and getting a good chicken burger, but knowing all too well it's nothing on a Zinger Tower.
It's like the new pair of shiny white shoes that look fantastic but dig into your heels.
It's like having that big boozy blowout you've needed to let off steam, but dealing with the horrid hangover the morning after.
It's satisfying, yet so very unsatisfying at the same time.
Wigan are winning, which is always pleasurable. But the manner in which they are doing it is anything but.
This was another error-prone performance. Their discipline was sloppy. They had their backs to the wall for long spells against a side that has now won just one of their last seven games.
They scored two bog-standard tries, they came up with errors when they tried to produce the thrills people pay to see.
But they won.
That victory made it seven league wins from seven, their best start to a season since the summer era began.
It's hard to argue with that. Yet there will be few Wigan fans confident of regaining the Super League title based on the performances that have come along the way.
Wigan will have to be better if they are to maintain anything like their current form. They'll also need to play better to appease their fans, which is a somewhat ridiculous notion when you consider the start they've had.
But there is something incredibly admirable, or incredibly irritating if you're a fan of any other side, about Wigan's knack of winning games despite being nowhere near their best.
Their ability to almost always find a way to win, either through excellence, resilience or sheer determination, are the hallmarks of a champion side.
The problem is they're relying too often on the latter two of those traits, and not so much on the first right now.
For now, it will do. It's worth noting how much disruption they've endured through pre-season and the volume of injuries they have, and still are, contending with.
But with games against Catalans and an improving Huddersfield on the horizon, they may well have to up the ante imminently or get themselves caught out.
