Town boss Roy Keane left his players in no doubt about what he thought of the performance at Watford, keeping them in the dressing room for 90 minutes after the 2-1 defeat.
Keane felt his side started poorly and never recovered: "We kicked the ball out play after three seconds, and it set the tone for the night. We’ll need to spend hours and hours now on the training pitch just practising kick-offs. It’s unbelievable."
The Blues boss was less than impressed that his side only started to show any form in the second half and then gave away a second poor goal: "The game started at quarter to eight.
"We couldn’t have been any worse in the second half, and we got ourselves back in the game, but we gave another bad goal away and shot ourselves in the foot.
"I freshened things up with one or two players coming in, but they didn’t give us the freshness we were hoping for. They say don’t change a winning team, and it could be true. You can bet your life I’ll be making changes now though.”
Keane replaced Owen Garvan after only 22 minutes and said he might have made other early tactical substitutions: "There could have been more. I really believe Watford wanted it more and that is hard to stomach."
Watford boss Malky Mackay said winning goalscorer Will Hoskins has been pressing for a place in the side: "Will has been close to getting in the team in last couple of weeks.
"He's matured this season, he's had a child with his partner and settled down. He's undoubtedly talented but it's also about workrate and we have seen that recently - I'm delighted for him.
"We had a lot of possession in the first half and it could have been two or three, so I was disappointed when their goal went in, but I had no doubt that they had the character to go on and win it.”