Hull City chairman Paul Duffen insists survival remains their sole target this season.

"A point a game across the season means you usually stay in the Premier League, whereas we are close to two at the moment," he told the Yorkshire Post.

"It is encouraging, of course it is. But the target remains what it has always been - to retain our Premier League status. That will not change.

"Before last season, we set the target of a top-half finish and that never wavered because, as a club, we are not in the business of moving the goalposts during a season. Anything else was a bonus, as it would be this season.

"What we have to remember is it is a long campaign with 38 very difficult games to get through. And I am sure that, at some stage, we will hit a dip in form."