“We were a little disappointed at half time that we were getting in to the final third but our balls into their box were not good enough,” said Allardyce.
“We were doing it from the wrong areas rather than the wide positions pushed out towards the touchline.
“We pushed our full-backs on in the second half and told them to get forward and we started to change play from left to right and right to left rather than just down the middle. We wanted to get the ball behind their defence and right from kick-off in the second half, Kevin Nolan should have scored and then Joey O’Brien did score before we had several other chances to get that winner.
“We worked a brilliant corner ourselves and Gary O’Neil hit it just wide, their keeper made some good saves and there were some scrambles in the box.
“Sadly we couldn’t find the ultimate winner that we deserved on the second-half performance. We’ve got 19 points from 12 games with nearly a third of the season gone.
“We can say it’s a really good start - if you’re five or six games in and you’re fifth of six in the league that can happen, but when you’re 12 games in and you’re seventh in the league then you know it’s a good start.”