AIDY Boothroyd was able to breath a sigh of relief last night (Tuesday) if not because of his side's progression in the Carling Cup, then at least because he'll no longer be asked about that 'first win' in his post-match press conferences.

The ever-jovial Hornets' boss is happy to have spiked such negative questions for the time being, and now hopes he'll have more of the same results-wise come Saturday evening after the visit of Spurs.

"Overall, we've won, we're through and that's the main thing," said the Watford manager.

"We know that we've got to start winning games, it's a habit that we got used to last year and I've missed it a lot.

"Hull were the better team in the last 15 minutes, they put us under a lot of pressure and that's why I bought Malky on to sustain that. I though a cool, calm, old head might relax everybody and thankfully we held out," he added.

"We need to get back to winning and we need to get some momentum going."

Whilst pleased with the 2-1 victory over Championship strugglers Hull City, Boothroyd was less happy however with aspects of his side's second-half show which led to a nervy end to the game. And Boothroyd offered he assembled media an insight into his post-match dressing room comments.

"I asked the players 'what did they expect me to say?' and one or two said 'we expected you to have a go at us because we didn't close out the game professionally' and then somebody said 'well done, you've won' and so that's what I said, 'okay, well done, you've won'.

"I think sometimes you can say too much at the end of a game and I've been guilty of that in the past. I'll analyse it and look at it again and obviously there were things in the second half that weren't right, but I thought there were a lot of good things."

One such good thing being the performance of Tamas Priskin, who netted his first ever goal for the Hornets, which eventually proved to be the winner.

"Tamas was asked to lead the line last time out and when you're a young guy in a new country it's about getting used to the football," commented Boothroyd.

"He's had a bit of time here now and he's settling down. He's nowhere near as good as he can be but I think he showed tonight one or two glimpses that he can be a really good player."