Charlie Hughes reveals Hull City dressing room feelings after Tim Walter sack chants

Hull City star Charlie Hughes says the players cannot afford to listen to the chants calling for manager Tim Walter to be sacked after a poor start to the season.

Hughes, who was a key target for Walter during the summer, has caught the eye since coming into the team for his full debut against Sunderland. Although he understands the fans' anger, Hughes believes his colleagues have to focus on the job in hand.

Walter was subjected to a barrage of criticism during the second half of last Tuesday's 1-0 defeat at Oxford United, while there were boos of frustration on Sunday as City succumbed to a 2-1 home loss to West Brom, a result which leaves them without a victory in seven games, since the win at QPR on October 1.

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“We don’t listen to those chants," a bullish Hughes told Hull Live. “We focus on performance, playing football and getting three points for the fans. We don’t listen to what is going on outside. No football fans are going to be happy if you are not winning games."

City's players will have time off this week before returning to their usual training schedule on Monday to prepare for next Saturday's trip to fellow strugglers Luton Town at Kenilworth Road, one of the two teams keeping City out of the bottom three on goal difference.

“I want to give something back to the fans, and so do the whole team, and we’re trying our best to do that," the 21-year-old central defender said. "It’s obviously tough to take, but now we’ve got the time in the break to regroup and refocus and then we have got to go again. We were on top (against West Brom), especially in the second half. We need to be clinical as a team. It’s down to us as a team to put things right and get results for us and the fans."

Given the season-ending injuries to Liam Millar and Mohamed Belloumi, along with the lengthy ban handed to Oscar Zambrano and a flurry of other injuries, City could be forgiven for thinking the world is against them just at the moment, but Hughes vehemently denies that suggestion.

"I don’t think the world is against us at all. We just need to find a way of winning games," he said. “I think every game is huge and there’s no easy game in the Championship. We will prepare for every game like we have done for Luton and will go there to try and get the three points. We are trying and we will do everything we can to get three points at Luton.”