Tony Pulis tempered his frustration with a dollop of pragmatism after Middlesbrough flunked their opportunity to go top of the Championship.
Leeds' failure to defeat Sheffield Wednesday on Friday night had presented it but despite going in front through Britt Assombalonga at the KCOM Stadium, they could not capitalise.
'We have to be more clinical. We need to score more goals, to win games. We can't keep relying on the back players,' said the Middlesbrough manager.
Middlesbrough took the lead through Britt Assombalonga just after the break on Saturday
'The back players have embraced what they're there for - to stop people from scoring.'
In a developing theme in Boro's otherwise impressive form, a second goal proved elusive and left them exposed to Jarrod Bowen's sucker-punch penalty equaliser midway through the second period, allowing Pulis' former club West Brom to take over at the summit in the process.
'They're disappointed in the changing room because they had the opportunity of going top - but it's one defeat this season,' Pulis added.
Only in the dying embers of the contest - when Jonny Howson's header was brilliantly clawed around a post by Hull goalkeeper David Marshall - did the dead-ball dependent visitors reveal the ambition required to claim all three points.
Things would have been different had the giant Aden Flint's header brushed the underside rather than the top of the crossbar shortly after Assombalonga's poacher's finish in the 51st minute from Howson's right-wing cross.
The visitors were denied all three points after Jarrod Bowen converted a penalty for Hull
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But a failure to make it 2-0 was punished when home debutant Chris Martin, whose physical battle with Flint provided one of the game's intriguing sub-plots, was floored by contact from ex-Hull defender Daniel Ayala.
Referee Darren England pointed to the spot and Bowen kept his concentration - despite a prolonged attempt from the recalled Poland forward Kamil Grosicki to steal his thunder - to send Darren Randolph the wrong way from 12 yards.
It was only the fourth time the division's meanest defence had been breached in the league this season. At the other end, meanwhile, struggling Hull were shored up by a switch to a 3-5-2 formation.
'We tried too nullify them and technically I was very pleased with a lot of the things that went on,' said Hull's head coach Nigel Adkins.
'It's a good point against a side that are going to be right up there come the end of the season.'
But as Pulis concedes, they will need to become sharper offensively if 'right up there' translates to automatic promotion.
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