AIDY Boothroyd struggled to hide his frustration after the final whistle as his side extended their winless streak at home to seven games.

Three sucker punches in the first half from a struggling Queens Park Rangers side were enough to put the Hornets out of sight, despite a second half rally from the home team.

"Another home defeat is disappointing," said Aidy, "yet despite the result I think in many ways there were a lot of bright spots there. The stats from the first half alone say that QPR got into our half four times and scored three times.

"Massive domination for us in the first half saw us start as well as we have this season, but go on to find ourselves three nil down at half-time because we just can't defend, because we don't do the fundamentals well and we get caught out with a simple run in between the centre back and the left back; that in itself is disappointing.

"Sometimes when you look to chase the game you can get caught out on a counter attack and that's exactly what happened and we ended up getting done, there you have it."

Boothroyd made one tactical change at half-time bringing on former Ranger Dan Shittu for Matt Jackson. The move yielded a goal from the domineering centre-back, but was the boss prepared to make more changes at the break?

"I was, yes, but I thought there was enough in there and that it was just the defensive frailties that cost us; some of our attacking play was very good in the first half and on a another day we would have scored, but we didn't.

"I think the two wide players did very well, and I couldn't say anybody had an absolute nightmare, but in the second half I had to make changes."

The Hornets remain second in the table but Boothroyd is not brushing anything under the carpet, despite the elevated position.

"We can't keep relying on everybody else, I've got some work to do, the players have got work to so and our home form has got to improve drastically."