"Neil Ardley can deliver good crosses but this was not one of his better ones and we really should have defended that. If we had kept them out I think it would have been game over but the goal lifted them."
Royle did not however blame young keeper Lewis Price for Watford's second: "They just got to the ball first in the ensuing scramble. But we came back strongly and we were still looking for the winner at the end. It was us who were doing the pressing in the last few minutes."
Royle also felt his side should have had a penalty: "I think the referee was the only person in the ground who thought the trip on Darren Bent was not a penalty."
Meanwhile Watford manager Ray Lewington admitted his side were a bit lucky: "We were without our outstanding player this season, Bryn Gunnarsson, and then lost our senior defender Neil Cox after 22 minutes.
"There were a lot of young players out there but they gave everything. Their heads did not go down even when Ipswich took a two-goal lead.
"I think Ipswich along with West Ham are the best footballing sides in this division. When they were two goals up, had we not rolled our sleeves up, they could have passed the ball around us and picked us off.
"Instead we fought back and gained another point and I think we can look at each other on Monday morning and at the fans knowing we have given everything."