Video - Hull FC 22 Wakefield Trinity Wildcats 4 - Mark Minichiello inspires Airlie Birds to victory over troubled Trinity

They had been in chaos last week after a shambolic 46-6 defeat at Widnes Vikings saw head coach Lee Radford claim he had been thrown out of the dressing room by his squad as they began the dissection of that embarrassment.

He admitted later he was foolish for revealing details about the aftermath of the game to the media but also, for all the shenanigans, added how his squad now had to improve fast.

They did so last night as, led by Mark Minichiello, the Australian second-row who scored two tries, and with Carlos Tuimavave making a successful switch from centre to stand-off after Jordan Abdull was dropped, Hull did enough to see off a limited Wakefield Trinity side.

Granted, the Airlie Birds were far from slick but, at least, they now go into the Good Friday derby at Hull KR in a positive frame of mind.

For the visitors, not that he will have needed it, but Chris Chester was given a quick insight into the size of the task that lies ahead as Wakefield head coach.

For all their obvious endeavour and desire here, they were badly lacking guile once more and have now lost six of their opening seven Super League games.

Beforehand, Chester said he would just have a watching brief at the KC Stadium having only been appointed on Wednesday.

However, barely three weeks after being stood down as Hull KR chief, he returned to the city where he won the Challenge Cup with FC in 2005 and was sat with assistant Stuart Dickens in the stands making the calls as Trinity slipped to another reverse.

Admittedly, they were not aided with some poor decisions from the officials who missed a blatant obstruction and forward pass as the hosts scored a try either side of the break.

Trinity also lost prop Anthony England to a leg injury inside just eight minutes and saw fellow front-row Nick Scruton bandaged up soon after following a heavy head knock.

However, basic errors continue to cost them; they forced a drop-out but then saw Tom Johnstone loses the ball in the first tackle, switched off badly to concede another Hull try and were too casual with some of their passing in good areas.

It was a sign of how much pressure Wakefield were under that they received a team warning after just 13 minutes following a succession of penalties near their own line.

Hull duly scored in the next set when Tuimavave popped up a pass for Minichiello to charge onto in his own unmistakable style.

Marc Sneyd slotted the first of his three goals but the visitors responded positively.

Jacob Miller, the former Hull half-back who proved lively at times last night, shimmied through and was unlucky not to win a penalty when Jamie Shaul appeared to halt him with a high tackle.