There is no point in dressing up this game as anything else but a disaster and an unacceptable one at that, the same issues cropped up again, we have changed the formation, but not the habit of switching off and gifting the opposition goals.
As predicted Will Still didn't change too much from the draw against Portsmouth last weekend, Caspar Jander came in for Flynn Downes who was well enough for a place on the bench but not to get on the pitch it seems, up front Damion Downs came in for Cameron Archer.
The facts of the matter are that we had 71% possession, we had 14 attempts at goal compared to Hull's 11, we even had the same number on target 4 each, but the only facts that matter are the goals columns and we let in 3 and they only 1.
For long periods of the game we dominated it in terms of having the ball, but we did nothing with it. we were predictable and pedestrian and void of any spark or imagination.
Will Still is desperately trying to find the best player up front and he seems to try someone different each week, this time it was Damion Downs, who struggled to find space and make those types of runs that demand a ball played into him, I can't remember his winning a ball or a header.
But the real problem was our lack of ability to defend, once again we were disorganised and lacked discipline, to put it bluntly we once again gave them all three of the goals, through poor marking and sloppy defending.
We should never have conceded and if we had kept a clean sheet then we are in a better position to win it.
As I trudged through the wind and the rain back to the City centre listening to the Hull supporters, they were shocked at how poor we were, one hit the nail on the head when talking about Finn Azaz to his mate, he said last year for Middlesbrough he tore Hull apart, that he was the best player he saw in the Championship by a country mile, but he was a shadow of his former self.
So where did we go wrong ? on paper we had a far better squad than Hull, certain players worked hard and tried their best to find the spark, but you have to ask yourself how after signing two right backs in the final week or so of the transfer window, how did we end the game with Ryan Fraser at right back and Elias Jelert at left back.
We just seemed to lack any form of cohesion, we make multiple changes for the sake of change, Tom Fellows was one of our better players yet he was hauled off.
You can't accuse Still of not trying to win games, we ended the game with three up front and god knows what the formation was by the final 15 minutes, it was a shambles.
The only plus point from the game was that Adam Armstrong got a pretty decent goal in the final minute of injury time, that didn't change anything in this game, but it might change the season, Armstrong needed a goal and he got one, that can only give him the confidence back into his game that was knocked out of him last season.
There is going be much gnashing of teeth by Saints supporters in the coming week or so, but truthfully it won't change anything, we have to back Will Still if only for the fact that at the moment at least, he is the man in the job.
I hope he succeeds and I hope Southampton FC succeed and at the moment after this game hope is all we have.
Footnote, I haven't been able to bring myself to watch the highlights if that is what you could call them, so I am relying only on my memory of watching the game through to the final whistle, perhaps clouded by a few post match drinks at the wake.