A CRESTFALLEN Owen Coyle vowed to get to the bottom of Wanderers ’ awful start to the season after a defeat that could well prove a landmark occasion in his reign.

For the first time in his near three-year tenure, travelling supporters had gone vocal with their disenchantment, singing “It’s time to go, Owen” after watching the Whites throw away the early advantage handed to them by Chris Eagles, then roll over completely to concede two goals in three minutes at the start of the second half.

A tale of yet more defensive errors had unfolded in front of around 500 travelling fans.

And while Wanderers were claiming themselves hard done by for Hull’s second – a header by former Reebok enforcer Abdoulaye Faye that looked to be a foul on Adam Bogdan – there was no hiding place when you analyse the strikes either side from Sone Aluko or Stephen Quinn.

“It’s getting repetitive,” conceded Coyle, who just a few days earlier had been summing up defensive errors in defeat against League One Crawley Town. “The goals we conceded were beyond belief.

“If you get beat by a 40-yarder or someone beating five or six men and scoring a wonder goal, then fine.

“I’m more than frustrated because, with all due respect to Hull, they haven’'t opened us up with quality – we have shot ourselves in the foot.

“It looked a free kick for the second goal but we still had 40 minutes for us to go back up the park, so to concede again within a minute, frustrating isn’t the word.”

Coyle is sure he can turn things back in his favour but now faces a fortnight to dwell on the poor start before a run of three games in seven days against Watford, Birmingham City and Sheffield Wednesday.

It appears the Scot will be given that chance – but first he faces the sizeable task of raising some performances from the majority of his under-performing squad.

“Of course we can turn it round because we’ve got good players,” he said. “There are generally a lot of nice lads in that dressing room but I need people to stand up and be counted in there. To be real men.

“Kevin Davies wears his heart on his sleeve and gives you everything he’s got, whether he has a bad, good or indifferent game, every week.

“Jay Spearing was outstanding today and I felt sorry for him because he had one misplaced pass all day, he was ferocious, and that’s the type of player you need to hang your hat on.”