Hull ended Nottingham Forest's 36-match unbeaten run at the City Ground with a 1-0 win over the promotion chasers. Forest had not lost a regular season match on home soil since September 2009 and slipped to fifth in the npower Championship table as a result and are now without a win in four.
Forest boss Billy Davies was still remaining upbeat, saying: "We are joint-top in terms of the most wins since January. We have lost, before today, two games in sixteen matches. We were 36 games undefeated at the City Ground and we've got nine players missing through injury. My glass is half full.
"I've got to be realistic. We've lost a bit of fluency, of course, with nine injuries. That's not an excuse, that's a fact.
"But we are in the top six, three points off second place. There's a long way to go but I'm delighted to be where we are.
"I'm very proud of the home record. We were never going to go on forever with this run, it had to come to an end sometime.
"But I thought in the first half we deserved to be in front and, while I don't think we deserved to win in the second half, we certainly never deserved to lose."
"They had one shot at goal in the whole of the second half and it came from our possession," Davies added. "We gave the ball away on the edge of the box, the boy tries to play it forward, it hits (Chris) Cohen on the leg, spins to Fryatt, they go up the park and they score. Unbelievable."
Hull still retain hope of sneaking into the a play-off position this season, but assistant manager Craig Shakespeare is remaining grounded.
"To come here and take that record is a great achievement, but it means nothing if we don't perform in the other games," he said.
"Confidence-wise, who knows, it could be something massive, you can never tell.
"If you ask me about the play-offs, who knows where we can end up? We've got to try and win each game and that will take care of itself as there are a lot of points still to play for.
"I do believe if you can be hard to beat, which we are at the moment, you've got a chance."
Shakespeare was particularly delighted by the Tigers' defensive display and added: "I thought the back five were immense today. We know at times we rode our luck, but they are a good side."
