One home defeat against relegated Sunderland was all it took for the insecurities and problems to resurface, not that they ever went away.
‘Marco Silva has been brilliant, but what he has achieved has simply papered over the cracks,’ says Geoff Bielby, chairman of the Hull City Supporters Trust (HCST).
‘Losing 2-0 last weekend to a team who have crashed out of the league, well that ripped the paper right off.’
Bielby, 60, is right. While attention has justifiably centred on their inspirational Portuguese boss, who arrived in January and resuscitated the club, at least on the field, off it they remain in a state of quarrel and never far from disarray.