"We are not a million miles away and I do believe we can get in the play-offs with this team but to win automatic promotion we need more bodies," he said after the 0-0 draw at Vicarage Road.
"Naturally we are concerned that we are drifting but I don't think we've had the breaks.
"We lost Matthew Etherington yesterday and we still have Rob Lee out and Jermain Defoe out through suspension.
"We didn't have a natural wide player. We had to cobble together a team and we dug in and showed a lot of character"