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Where do I start with that?

If someone had told me before the game that we would score five goals in a game that we really had to win to keep our faint play-off hopes alive you would have thought that it was three points in the bag.

What actually unfolded was a mirror of our season, some really good moments but also some absolute rubbish. How on earth we contrived to throw two points away I don’t know and in the end we were lucky to get just the one point.

I think the manager got his tactics wrong, made the wrong substitutions but ultimately it is the players on the pitch who have to shoulder the blame.

(Image: Matt McNulty/JMP)

Quite a few of them just did not do their jobs and this cost us.

Johnson opted to recall Eros Pisano, Callum O’Dowda and Jamie Paterson to the starting line-up with Josh Brownhill, Milan Djuric and Lloyd Kelly dropping to the bench. I was surprised at Lloyd Kelly being dropped to the bench, especially with the Manager talking about the drop in form of Joe Bryan. Kelly has been man of the match in a couple of games recently and of the two is the player in better form.

Jamie Paterson who I have felt has not done himself justice in recent months was somewhere near the player that we had earlier in the season. Dropping his shoulder and creating numerous opportunities.

When Pato plays like this he is a very good player and whilst illness and injuries haven’t helped him he has to find greater consistency next season. With Callum on his natural left-hand side the team looked balanced and we looked lively early on.

It was against the run of play that the Tigers took the lead through on-loan Liverpool winger Harry Wilson.

Wilson exchanged passes in the middle of the pitch, Aden Flint didn’t close him down and he unleashed a shot into the top corner which Frank Fielding didn’t even move for.

City to their credit didn’t let their heads drop and the fans got behind the team, understanding the importance of a win. As half-time approached they turned it around with a long-range shot from Marlon Pack and a left-footed strike from Famara Diédhiou showing strength to hold off the Hull defence and get his strike away.

The half-time team talk will have been made easier by the two quick goals and City started the second 45 in the same vein and quickly established a two goal cushion with Diédhiou netting his second of the game with a fine header from a Reid cross.

Famara has had a decent first season and you wonder what he would have scored had he not spent so long out injured.

A 3-1 lead should have been enough to seal the win but City allowed Hull to get straight back into the game.

O’Dowda didn’t track his man and the Hull right back Tomori beat Fielding too easily at his near post. City continued to push forward and Reid got his 21st goal of the season to restore the two goal lead.

Johnson opted to change the side, bringing off O’Dowda and moving Reid back. I have said it time and time again but Reid is the top scorer in the league and yet Johnson still opts to move him back into midfield. We had been really good offensively and so why change it?

Keep doing what you are doing, there was still 25 minutes to play.

To be fair it wasn’t the shape of the team that caused City to implode and allow Hull back into the game. Ref Oliver Langford gave a really poor decision in awarding Hull a free-kick after what looked from where I sit a perfectly timed tackle by Joe Bryan.

Wilson stepped up and from 30 yards out, way out wide he beat Fielding at his near post. This was a poor goal to concede and whilst I think Frank has been a great servant if we want to achieve more next season we need to sign a goalkeeper who is suited to the style of quick football we wish to play.

For a goalkeeper there is nowhere to hide and I am not putting all the blame on Fielding but he did have a poor afternoon and allowing this goal to beat him did change the game.

Hull equalised following more poor defending by Pisano and Baker and unbelievably found themselves in front when Fraser Campbell slid in after another poor piece of defending by Pisano.

Eros has struggled since returning from injury and a right-back to provide competition has to be signed in the summer. We need to sign round pegs for round holes and not play centre halves out of position.

City pressed for the equaliser and were rewarded with a Joe Bryan right foot shot four minutes into injury time. Alas it was a little too late and even though other results went for City, realistically even the most ardent optimistic fan knows that the play offs have gone.

Ironically, as an attacking force City were somewhere near their pre-Christmas form but defensively as a back five we were really poor. Fielding, Pisano, Baker, Flint and Bryan had shockers.

You have to feel sorry for Reid and Diédhiou who worked their socks off and deserved to be on a winning team.

I think Johnson was wrong with his subs and to take off Korey Smith who was the ONLY leader that we had on the pitch and move Bobby out to the left was baffling.

There will be many who are once again questioning Johnson, which is understandable following our run of form since Christmas.

Lee is still learning but has developed a habit of his teams going on bad runs and it’s something he has to address.