You know that a game's been pretty poor when all that the pundits can talk about is little oddities.

Dean Windass got booked for putting his sizable buttocks in Rory Delap's way as RD lined up a long throw.

Visiting players got all shirty about Stoke using a towel to dry the ball before a throw in.

What's that all about? If it added on time, both teams were able to use it, so it was hardly giving Stoke an advantage.

And there was the sight of Phil Brown trying to stare out the Stoke fans who, how shall I put this, suggested that he liked to have sexual activity on his own.

The match itself was the worst I've seen Stoke play this season.

No lack of commitment, but precious little threat to the Hull City goal.

Our lack of midfield players prepared to get forward and support attacks often led to them petering out.

Salif Diao and Amdy Faye protected the back four well and Stoke restricted Hull to a handful of shots.

But they offered next to nothing as an attacking force, which left us entirely reliant on Delap and Soares to support Sidibe and Fuller.

Soares did not have the best of days, quickly closed down by the opposition, and was eventually substituted.

Tonge's arrival again led to a vital goal, this time after Fuller was brought down by Myhill in the penalty area.

Apparently Hull fans feel hard done by about this: don't. I was in the front row about 10 yards away and there was clear contact on Ricardo as he went through.

The ref gave us a few 'home' decisions in this game, but that one was absolutely right.

It was typical of a side managed by a manically arm-waving Phil Brown that they should then try to put off the penalty taker by leaving players dawdling on the goal line and pat Fuller on the back of the head before he took his shot.

Nice try, but it did not work as Ric's right foot shot crept in.

Frankly I don't think either side particularly deserved to win.

Both played better in the second half than the first, with Stoke dominating possession in the first period but doing very little with it.

Hull hardly got out of their own half in the first 45 minutes, but got a goal right on half time which could have demoralised our players. It didn't, which was credit to the manager's motivational powers.

Frankly there was little else to say about the game.

Stoke once again proved that they can nullify pretty much any team at the Britannia.

But for the second week running they struggled to create goalscoring opportunities.

If we fail to address that problem, it will leave us struggling to avoid the drop in May.

A goal each against West Brom and Hull may have netted us four points, but surely we have to do better than that to win games for the rest of the season?

The balance of the side means we are set up to scrape a win or draw, but struggle if the other side scores first.

We must be more adventurous than that if we want to pick up three points regularly at the Brit.