When I was walking out of the ground yesterday I was moaning about the lack of running, so I’ve had a quick look at the actual running stats. Grimes is getting a fair bit of stick, but he’s covering about 11.7km per 90, which is right up there for us. Yirenkyi is around 11.5km too. The sprint numbers surprised me even more. Rudoni is doing plenty of sprinting, and Mason-Clark and Tchaouna are up there as well. But yesterday it still felt like everything was happening in front of Hull. Awoniyi would hold it up, but instead of someone going beyond him and giving them something to worry about, we’d just end up playing it backwards and starting again. The wide players seemed to be coming short more than they were trying to spin in behind. That might be the real issue. We’re doing the miles, and we’re doing some sprinting, but not many of those runs are actually useful. Where are the runs that stretch teams, drag defenders about, or give the man on the ball a proper option? If people were making the runs, then Grimes would look more effective. His game is getting on the ball and keeping it moving. But he is looking up at the moment and everyone is stood in front of a packed defence wanting it into feet.