TIGERS CAN STILL BE IN THE HUNT!

KASEY Palmer reckons Hull City can emulate 2023 Championship play-off finalists Coventry by recovering from a disappointing start to mount a promotion push.

- By Dave Flett

The Tigers failed to win any of their first six contests in all competitions – matching their worst beginning to a campaign since 1990 – before their 3-1 win at Stoke on Friday night.

But Palmer was a part of the Coventry squad that – two seasons ago – was unable to register a victory during their opening eight fixtures before going closer than any other Sky Blues side to ending the club’s 23-year Premier League hiatus, succumbing eventually to penalty shoot-out defeat against Luton at Wembley.

Despite a promise to bring “heart-attack football” to Humberside, new boss Tim Walter has struggled to set pulses racing during his opening weeks in charge of the 2014 FA Cup finalists.

Palmer, though, has insisted players must keep faith in the German manager’s methods and, then, fortunes will change, just as Coventry’s did under Mark Robins.

The 27-year-old midfielder told The FLP: “At Coventry, we still believed in what we were doing. We didn’t change our style of play and the results started to follow.