Hull midfielder Seyi Olofinjana has called on the whole team to take responsibility for turning their season around.
The club's poor form this term has inevitably seen scrutiny fall on manager Phil Brown and new chairman Adam Pearson has offered him no public job assurances beyond Sunday's game against Stoke.
But Olofinjana - brought to the club by Brown from Stoke last summer - wants the manager to know the squad are battling with him.
"It is a club thing," the Nigerian said. "Phil Brown has got his own faults, he has got his improvements to make, but as players we all have.
"We are paid heavily to do a job. Getting results is not only down to the manager, it is down to us as well."
Hull are struggling in the bottom three of the Barclays Premier League ahead of the crucial visit of Olofinjana's former club.
Form has completely evaporated with the Tigers having won just twice this season - and only three times in 33 league games stretching back to last December.
With tough games against Everton and Manchester City coming up later in the month, the Stoke game is seen as vital not only for the points tally but as a gauge of Brown's popularity.
Some sections of support have started to turn against the club's most successful manager and with changes inevitable under Pearson, Brown needs a fan-pleasing result.
"It can only get better from here," Olofinjana, 29, said. "We come to training every day with smiles on our faces and a belief we can get some points. It is going to happen.
"It is ticking away, we know that, and the earlier we start the better.
"We just need to scrap points out and confidence comes with points.
"When you have confidence you can do the things you have the abilities to do.
"It doesn't matter how we win on Sunday. We just need to get a win."
