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'Fanciful ideas' - Hull City sent stark warning amid nagging MKM Stadium concerns
David Prutton believes Hull City must wake up to the fact they're quickly slipping into what could well be a relegation battle to avoid a return to League One.
Sunday's 2-1 home defeat to West Brom was their fourth in their winless run of seven games and cranked up the pressure on boss Tim Walter, who has come under fire from supporters in recent weeks.
City are only outside the bottom three on goal difference having won only three of their first 15 games, with only one clean sheet to their name so far this term.
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While Walter's side were dominant for long periods of the contest, conceding two goals inside the opening 20 minutes from Karlan Grant and Josh Maja proved enough, despite Joao Pedro's superb angled header before the break.
Regan Slater missed a glorious chance in the second period to level it up. But once again Walter's side struggled to fashion clear-cut chances as the contest wore on, and Prutton admits he has concerns for his hometown club going into the final international break of the calendar year.
"When you look round and see Josh Maja with that much time and space inside your six-yard box and still look surprised, well, that's ridiculous because you need to keep half-an-eye on him when he's in your six-yard box because he's probably going to score," the Sky Sports presenter told the 1904 Club podcast.
"The fact we've got Cardiff on 15, Luton on 15, Preston on 15 and City on 15 points, it just goes to show how ultra-tough its going to be. Fanciful ideas of making the top six right now are just that, fanciful.
"When a new manager comes in and that almost feeling of necessity that you've got to state how you're going to do stuff instead of what you're going to do, which is play football in a certain way, create an atmosphere of what's going to be entertainment and hopefully results.
"You've got to put the owner, manager and players into this, seemingly together, they've created neither. They've created something which feels hostile and not to the opposition and looks incoherent.
"Yes, coaches are very well-skilled and highly educated, and they want to do X, Y and Z and do it in a mystical way that might not make sense to us lay people, but you can sit there and watch it and go, 'I'm not having this at all, I don't get it.' Yes, there were chances created on Sunday, but there have been too many games like that I feel.
"Away from that three-game winning streak when things seemed to be going well, he hasn't done that. There are too many teams in and around that position that, I would say, have a better squad than City do, and once they start going through the gears off their back of the international break, City could be in real trouble."
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