Nothing Hull City can muster this weekend -- the ridiculous aside -- will lift them out of the Premier League's bottom three in time for the looming international break. Such is life after six consecutive defeats and a meagre return of just one point from a possible 24.
Mike Phelan's side have been on a steep slide through September and into October, with optimism receding as fast as the daylight hours in East Yorkshire. Everything supporters had feared at the end of a disastrous summer has slowly come to pass. A team short on quality is precisely where you would expect to find them.