Grant McCann not overly concerned by the gap between Hull City and League One's top two

A return of just five points from the last 18 on offer has seen the Tigers drop out of the automatic promotion places and cede a significant amount of ground to rivals Peterborough United and Lincoln City in the title race.

The East Yorkshire club find themselves five points behind leaders Posh, and four shy of the second-placed Imps, despite the fact that they have played two games more than both teams.

But, McCann insists that there is still plenty of time to reel those clubs back in, and pointed to Hull's run of six wins out of seven at the start of the season when asked if he believed his players were good enough to put together a sequence of results that would be sufficient to bring them back into contention at the summit.

"It doesn't concern me that much because we've got 15 games left and there's a long way to go," the Northern Irishman said.

"These teams have got 17 [to play] and nothing is won in March, I have to stress that to you. I think that people do jump the gun and think that 'that's it, Peterborough and Lincoln are the top two'.

"They may well be, who knows. But we will stay calm, we'll stay focused on our job. Those two are in the ascendancy those two are the favourites now - of course they are - but we've got to focus on our own job, be clear in our thinking and treat every game with the same respect that we have from day one.

"We've done it [putting a run of form together] already at the start of the season. We've been on some really good runs already, so we know we are capable of it, it is just about finding that consistency and that momentum."

City return to action on Saturday when they visit 20th-placed AFC Wimbledon.