Hull City facing up to mammoth summer after latest home disaster

Hull City's biggest crowd of the season on the back of a thumping away win at Coventry on Wednesday night failed to inspire the Tigers to a rare home win on Saturday. A 3-1 defeat against an in-form Hatters side ensured they remain at the foot of the Championship home form table and now facing up to the reality of five successive defeats in front of a fan-base becoming increasingly fed up with what they're seeing in their home city.

Away from home, Shota Arveladze's men are a different proposition but this is an issue that needs to be faced head-on and solved before the summer break. Here, City reporter Barry Cooper looks back on another dispiriting afternoon in east Yorkshire..

I mean, if you look hard enough you’re sure to find some positives, surely? Well, I suppose the late goal is something at least to take away. The fact at 3-0 down and the game had long gone, the players did at least keep going and ensure it didn’t become five home games without scoring a goal. Clutching at straws? Perhaps, but now that awful record has been ended, it may lift a little bit of the pressure for the next home game in under two weeks when Huddersfield Town arrive looking to join the party and waltz away with three points.

Keane Lewis-Potter was again in good form, looking sharp and likely to make something happen, though in truth it was him or nothing. If there was any way City were getting into the game it was going to come from either something he created or a moment of individual brilliance. Sadly, neither came off but it was not for want of trying on his part, unfortunately, Tom Eaves aside, there was little in the way of creativity from elsewhere which was in part down to the fact City just could not get enough players in areas