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"I thought the game today was a game of missed chances," Boothroyd said. "I thought Jobi McAnuff had a couple and Nathan Ellington had a few. Ade Akinbiyi had some good chances and he didn't put them in and on another day it might have been a 7-4 like it was a couple of years ago.
"If you don't put them in then there's always a chance that they will go up the other end and score which is what happened to us today. That's something to learn from."
Turf Moor was where Boothroyd's first game in charge of Watford was and today was his first point at Burnley. "I've not been too successful in the past coming here. Although we go to win every game, I think before it we would have settled for a point and carried on trying to improve our home form on Tuesday against Norwich.
"To go ahead twice, even when you don't play particularly well, you'd expect us to win the game and that's what you have got to do to win the Championship. I'm disappointed in that aspect and that's because of the standard that the players have set. I thought overall it was a fair result as we shot ourselves in the foot twice."
Boothroyd then spoke about the referee, and amazingly thought he'd had a good game. "I think we saw passion, two teams and two managers and two staffs that want to win. Sometimes it boils over, but I have to say that I thought the referee dealt with it very, very well.
"It is only his sixth game in the Championship, but I thought he was great today and handled it very well. I'm the first one to bang on the door and tell them when they get it wrong but I thought he did okay although the Burnley fans didn't. It could have spilled over but it didn't."
He claimed to have changed things when we introduced Robbie Blake for Ade Akinbiyi. "We changed tactically to compensate for him, but obviously we didn't do a good enough job on him because he scored twice. We dropped deeper, despite having the wind. If we'd got a lot higher we'd have negated him but at that stage of the game we were almost hanging on rather than going for it, and if you don't play on the front foot at places like this then you're liable to get scored against."
Owen Coyle meanwhile was rightly delighted with his team's performance. "I thought the lads were magnificent today. We got it down and passed it and it must have been a great game to watch. Having said that I felt we did enough to win the game with the chances we created. They weren't even half chances, they were gilt edged.
"For their second goal I thought there were two incidents that could have been a free kick to us. It is not easy being a referee I've got to say, but I am fifty yards away and I thought there was an incident. But to bounce back from that kick in the teeth just summed up the spirit in that group of players.
"At times you think it is not going to be your day, but Robbie has come off the bench and looked lively. He would have been disappointed not to start, having come on during the week and looked lively. We have showed we can stand up and I am absolutely thrilled to bits with the level of performance we gave and any other day I think we would have merited three points."
The manager had words for Ade Akinbiyi who missed a couple of those gilt edged chances he referred to. "Ade could have had a hat trick," he said. "But I've told him he has to be in those positions to miss them and I will never ever have a go at anyone for that. I have got nothing but praise for Ade. When he came off he was the first one willing the boys on and that speaks volumes about the man."