“It was not a good performance, let's not gloss over anything”, said a candid Boothroyd.
“The pivotal moment was at 3 o'clock when we never turned up, I'm very disappointed with that and I'm very annoyed as you can probably tell. Other people have found that out as well.
It was a bad game and we contributed to that enormously.
We had an opportunity to get something today because, as good as
I expected us to get points but we didn't turn up. We have got ourselves in a hole and we have got to get out of it. But if we carry on playing like that we will only make it deeper."
A ten point gap has opened up between Watford and safety following Wigan Athletics' narrow one goal victory over Harry Redknapp's Portsmouth, and Boothroyd went on to outlined the enormity of the task now facing his struggling team.
"Wigan have won and what it means now is that we've got to go and beat West Ham, we've got to beat Charlton and we've got to beat
It's about us and about what we do and it's about what we do as individuals and whether we're up for this.
I'm very supportive of the players and I always will be but sometimes you've got to be cruel to be kind. I have to go away and think about what I'm going to do.
I have to think about how I'm going to get these people going and how we're going to win all our home games. I've got to pick players who I think will go out and do it for me."