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As a football fan, it sometimes seems as though there are few things in life that can lift your hopes up to their highest point, and then drop you down like a stone in a matter of moments in the same way that football does.

While the unpredictability brought about by the fact that any one side can beat any other team at any point of the season, regardless of the circumstances, is one of the main reasons why we as neutrals love the game, it also something that is surely a huge source of frustration for fans around the World.

When a confidence-boosting win can so often, and so easily, be followed by a morale-sapping defeat, it is no surprise that so many fans often find themselves being put through the proverbial ringer by the club they follow.

One set of fans who will surely be feeling such emotions to the maximum effect right now, are Hull City's.

Not only does the fact that the defeat they suffered on Saturday came just days after their win on Tuesday mean that they had less time to saviour the taste of victory than they would on the more traditional Saturday to Saturday schedule, but the nature, and indeed context of those two results, will only add to the disappointment they ought to be feeling right now.

Last Tuesday, Grant McCann's side would end Garry Monk's unbeaten league start as manager of Sheffield Wednesday, with a 1-0 win courtesy of summer signing Tom Eaves' first goal for the club, making it five unbeaten in the Championship for Hull.

That is a win that should surely have had the Hull faithful brimming with confidence.

Up against a side who had been tipped as many as a contender for the play-off spots this season, the Tigers were more than a match for Wednesday, and there may have even been a sense that a performance such as that showed Hull's own potential as an outside bet for the top six this season.

It is a feeling that, given the performance they followed it up with on Saturday, is unlikely to have lasted long.

Travelling to the John Smith's Stadium to face a struggling Huddersfield Town side, there may have been an expectation that Hull would kick on from that win against a top-six contender, and start to build the sort of run that saw them mentioned as potential challengers for a play-off spot themselves last season.

In the end however, Hull would do nothing of the sort.

Up against what is now looking like a resurgent Terriers side under newly appointed manager Danny Cowley, Hull would slump to a lacklustre 3-0 defeat, with Huddersfield scoring all three of their goals inside 15 second-half minutes to kill the game off in no time at all.

That is something that will surely have been a huge disappointment for those away fans who made the trip, and it is unlikely to have left Hull fans expecting much from this season.

The fact of the matter is, while they may be capable of taking eye-catching results against sides such as Sheffield Wednesday throughout the course of the campaign, if they cannot follow that up against results against those sides who may be around them in the mid-part of the Championship table, then they are not going to kick on towards the play-offs.

It seems therefore, that Hull fans may be preparing themselves for another season where the ups and downs keep them out of both the fight for promotion and the battle for relegation.

While that may be enough for now, with the Premier League interest there has been in the likes of Jarrod Bowen in the past, they may well wonder if that will be enough to keep those sorts of players at the club, and that is something that could certainly be a long term concern.

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