No 'panic' from Hull City manager Liam Rosenior - but a January transfer window hint and warning to his defenders

The league table after the New Year’s Day action is always a handy guide and while the Tigers find themselves outside of the top six by a point, there is plenty to look forward to.

Even accounting for a 3-1 loss at Yorkshire rivals Sheffield Wednesday, City’s fifth in their last eight matches.

Rosenior, whose side’s break for the FA Cup this weekend is perhaps well timed, stressed: "When we win, we're not the best team in the world and when we lose, we're not the worst team in the world. We're somewhere in between and it's a constant process of working within that.

"For me, there's no crisis or panic.

"If we'd come to Sheffield Wednesday and won, we wouldn't all of a sudden have been guaranteed to win the play-offs, so we've just got to keep working and stay really grounded and focussed on the job in hand.

"What we have to do is look over 26 games and we're a point outside the play-offs, so we're still in a really strong position with a really strong foundation and it's my job to hopefully take that foundation into something tangible."

City intend to be active in the market this month and are in discussions to sign Burnley winger Manuel Benson on loan. Hull have also been linked with a move for his Clarets’ team-mate Anass Zaroury.

Meanwhile, Rosenior admits that his most pertinent concern at the moment surrounds his side’s disappointing recent defensive statistics and it could see him look to address things in the window.

Rosenior, whose side have let in 17 goals in nine matches since the last international break, added: "We're conceding goals too easily at the moment and that's something I can rectify on the training pitch, but also in January. It's something we're working on."