STEVE Bruce has acknowledged Hull City never do things the easy way, but he will be as desperate as any fan to stop this automatic promotion race dragging out to the final weekend.
Whether it's tomorrow night, when third-placed Watford must avoid defeat at Leicester, or when the Tigers travel to Barnsley on Saturday, a place in the Premier League is there for the taking over the next couple of days.
For the sake of everyone's nerves, let's just hope the party can begin at Oakwell on Saturday evening.
Things haven't quite worked out as we'd planned in the last couple of games.
The 1-0 defeat at Wolves went unpunished when Watford lost, but the 0-0 draw at home to Bristol City left the door open for the Hornets to close the gap to four points last weekend.
That's inevitably got a few fans looking over their shoulders but it's important not to be panicking.
City are still the team to catch and just one win will be enough.
That's all Bruce will have been telling his side this week and that's where all his experience will have come into play.
If there was any sense of deflation after such a poor performance against Bristol City, you can be sure that Bruce will have breezed into the training ground on Monday morning laughing and joking.
He might have suffered a sleepless night or two with so much at stake this weekend, but you can guarantee he won't have shown that anxiety to his players.
When a manager is relaxed and happy, that transfers down to everyone else.
Bruce will have used this week wisely.
Cramming three games into six days was a big ask and the goal-less draw against Bristol City was probably a bridge too far.
I can't imagine he ever expected Blackburn to do City's job for them by winning at Watford last weekend, so the focus was always going to be on regrouping and getting everything in place for the Barnsley game.
Although it could be a funny situation where promotion is secured without kicking a ball tomorrow, you can't plan for that.
City have a game to prepare for at Barnsley and you can't let distractions get in the way.
That's not to say City won't watch Watford's game at Leicester. Far from it, in fact.
They'll be together in their hotel tomorrow night and will either get together in a conference room to watch it as a squad, or pack into one another's rooms to cheer Leicester on.
You can be as professional as you like but if Watford lose I'd be amazed if the champagne corks aren't popping at the City hotel.
By chance, it's turned out to be a very similar situation to when Bruce helped Manchester United win the first Premier League title in 1993.
They ended up winning the title a day before their penultimate game and everyone piled around to Bruce's house to celebrate when Aston Villa lost to Oldham.
Those stories have been doing the rounds this week to mark the 20th anniversary of Sir Alex Ferguson's first league title and I'm sure City will be celebrating in the exact same way if Leicester can do them a favour tomorrow night.
It's human nature to want to celebrate such a brilliant achievement.
I'm sure the 5,000 fans at Barnsley would excuse them an off-day if it turned out they were worse for wear!
Saying that, I'm not convinced the party will be allowed to start tomorrow night.
Watford will go to Leicester and give it a go.
As we saw at the KC a couple of weeks ago, they're a useful side away from home and I can see them collecting at least a point at the King Power Stadium.
That would leave City needing to match Watford's result when they go to Barnsley and I'm confident they can manage that.
When it's really mattered this season, more often than not Bruce and his men have not let us down.
One win is all it will take and, fingers crossed, that won't be a problem.
