Hull boss Phil Brown refused to get carried away with his side's automatic promotion hopes following Saturday's 2-0 victory at Leicester.Goals in each half from Dean Marney and Caleb Folan moved the Tigers into third place in the Championship as they took full advantage of further slip-ups from the teams around them.

West Brom's point at Charlton was matched by leaders Stoke and Watford, while Bristol City were beaten at Cardiff.

That ensured Brown's side moved within two points of the second-placed Robins with six games to play.

Yet asked if he was contemplating automatic promotion, Brown replied: "No, what's coming into my thoughts is just winning the next game, it's as simple as that.

"It's a big game for us against Watford next week. These players seem to be totally focused on the job in hand and it's full credit to them."

He added: "Since we've been in sixth place and above it was always our intention to get there at some stage of the season, we probably got there a little bit early.

"Now that we're there it is our intention to stay there in sixth place and above."

The biggest crowd of the season at the Walkers Stadium saw Marney convert Fraizer Campbell's right-wing cross to put Phil Brown's men ahead a minute into first-half injury-time.

Marney spurned the chance of a brace when his penalty was saved by Foxes goalkeeper Paul Henderson but substitute Folan made sure of the points late on - just three minutes after his introduction.

It was a fifth win from the last six for the Tigers and Brown admitted their recent form has even surpassed what he had hoped for.

"Two points per game and above is good form by anyone's standards," he added.

"If you maintain that through the course of the season it's championship form or automatic promotion form.

"We went on warm weather training to Dubai in January and that injection of fitness work and togetherness is paying dividends.

"We have a target we set when we were in Dubai and we are exceeding that target at the moment. What we have to do is make sure we win the next game."

While the Tigers go onwards and upwards, the result was a major setback for the Foxes and suggested last week's impressive 4-1 win at the Hawthorns was a false dawn.

Only Crystal Palace's 94th-minute equaliser at Sheffield Wednesday kept the Foxes out of the bottom three, with goal difference alone all that is currently sparing them from the relegation zone.

Boss Ian Holloway described the 90 minutes as "the worst performance I have seen for a long, long time time" and pleaded with fans to stick by his side.

"I would like to thank the crowd, I thought they stuck with us far longer than I felt like I wanted to.

"It's so frustrating. I felt like we were beaten by a better team, I thought with the simplicity of what they did we were fortunate to come out with a bigger deficit.

"If it wasn't for my goalkeeper Hendo it would have been far more embarrassing than it actually was.

"That's hard to take when you are in our situation and it is unbelievable that is the same team bar one as last Saturday who played like we did against West Brom.

"We have six games left and all I will say is we will have to do a damn sight better than that."

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