Hull City boss Phil Brown is delighted with the form of skipper Ian Ashbee.
He told the Hull Daily Mail: "The way Ian Ashbee has played so far doesn't surprise me, not at all.
"It must have been the first week we met each other and I promised him that we would go to the Premier League and we are fulfilling that at this moment in time.
"As I say, and Ash will say himself, one game doesn't make a Premier League player, one season doesn't make a Premier League player.
"But what he is showing is that he can cut it at this level and not be embarrassed with the ball and certainly not without the ball."