SAM Allardyce was far from impressed with his side's defending as Rovers slipped to a 3-1 defeat at White Hart Lane.
Jermain Defoe opened the scoring on the stroke of half time before Roman Pavlyuchenko grabbed a second ten minutes after the restart.
But although Chris Samba pulled a goal back with ten minutes to go, more slack play at the back allowed the Russian striker grab his second of the game to condemn Rovers to defeat.
"With the goals we've conceded we've only ourselves to blame," said a despondent Sam Allardyce after the game.
"For the first goal it was the near post area that we should have defended better, and that was disappointing having got to that stage of the game that we should have been determined enough to come in at half-time 0-0.
"Because we did a lot of messing about with our own throw in our own half we end up putting ourselves under pressure, then conceding the corner and ultimately conceding that goal.
"In the second half we reorganised, take control of the game, spending most of it in Tottenham's half, trying to create the chance to score a goal and Brett Emerton heads a ball instead of across the goal he heads it sideways their player picks it up and within three seconds Pavlyuchenko has a shot that goes under Jason Brown and its 2-0.
"You can't keep committing suicide like that.
"It was always going to be difficult from there on, we got ourselves back in with a good goal, get it to 2-1. You'd have thought we'd have learned our lesson but no, we go and make even more errors on the third goal."
But the game could have been oh so different had decisions gone Rovers' way.
In the first half David Dunn was brought down in the box by Vedran Corluka, but no penalty was given. Then with Rovers chasing a way back into the match Niko Kalinić had what looked like a perfectly good strike chalked off.
"When the game was at 0-0 we've had a penalty appeal turned down that we think is a clear penalty, and that has turned the game, that is obviously disappointing.
"Niko has scored the best goal of the game and it should have stood. It probably wouldn't have affected the game, but you don't want to see great goals like that wiped out.
"But when we look back on the game we only have ourselves to blame."
