Former Halifax Town skipper Phil Brown has done a remarkable job at the KC Stadium and the bandwagon is showing no signs of slowing up.
The way the Tigers are shaping got me thinking about Bolton Wanderers and their recent 'glory years'.
Brown was Sam Allardyce's assistant for six years at the Reebok Stadium - the best six years of Big Sam's reign.
He left for Derby County, where he struggled to make an impression, before joining Hull City.
But following his departure from Wanderers, they went into a decline that eventually led to Allardyce's departure and the ill-fated Sammy Lee period.
Perhaps Brown was the brains of the partnership.
Certainly the Hull City fans are delighted that he has landed on Humberside.
As recently as 2002 the Tigers played Halifax Town in an old Division Three clash at the Shay.
Hard to imagine that now Town would require seven promotions to get back on even terms with them.
And their impressive start to the season - Hull's not Halifax's, obviously - has sent some of the Tigers fans into delirium.
One was speaking on a national radio phone in last week after their stunning victory over Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.
He was asked how he felt about the team's return to north London to face Tottenham.
"Yes," he replied. "It is a potential banana skin for us."
He needn't have worried as his side won 1-0 to move into third in the table.
Champions League games back in Yorkshire anyone?


FOOTBALL manager slags off journalist is not usually the stuff of back pages.
But in the case of Joe Kinnear this week an exception was made - and quite right too.
I can understand why a boss of a football team can become exasperated by a certain line of questioning.
It is not something with which I am entirely unfamiliar.
A brief synopsis of events at St James' Park would be "Go away, I don't really like you".
And there is no reason why a manager should like a particular reporter.
But it would have been good had the manager, worried about his position being undermined before a ball had been kicked, had actually read what had been written instead of making something up and blasting off with a torrent of abuse.
Old school Kinnear's appointment was a strange one given the length of time he has been out of the game.
Now he is ready to offer a fellow dinosaur Gerry Francis a way back into the game.
Francis has not been directly involved since he left Bristol City in 2001.
It is a combination, albeit supposedly temporary, that will hardly have the pulses racing in the north east.