With a 3-0 defeat at Leicester encompassing two dismissals, an accusation that Mike Williamson got himself sent off deliberately and a supporters’ protest against the efforts of the players on the field.
Now that the dust has settled on events at the King Power Stadium, Carver accepts that events had been building towards a head for a number of weeks.
“The Leicester game brought things to a head,” said Carver. “I had not seen that in all the games over 90 minutes, it was the worst 90 I have seen. I had seen glimpses - a first half or a second half - but not for a complete game.
“Leicester was just so bad, across the board. You can be critical of how we defended set plays, didn't keep the ball, didn’t track back, but sometimes you get days like that. That was the first time I had seen it in the time I was looking after the team.
“You could say, ‘Well in the Sunderland game, this wasn't happening and that wasn't’, but that was the first time I saw something totally different.
“Spirits have been lifted breaking that run though, slightly. We broke it and that was important. I don’t think there has been any significant change, although the players might say there has been in their attitudes after that meeting they had. I don’t know what was said.”