QPR manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink insists the club should not even think about winning promotion after their 2-1 defeat at home to Hull.
Adama Diomande's injury-time winner for the visitors left Rangers 15th in the Sky Bet Championship table and still without a win since Hasselbaink took over as manager at Loftus Road.
The Dutchman was appointed following the sacking of Chris Ramsey, who had lost his job because the club's owners expected a promotion challenge.
However, Hasselbaink, who has been in charge for six matches, said: "I'm not even thinking of that. We shouldn't even be thinking about promotion.
"We should just be thinking about improving the team. Everybody is thinking about the outcome, but we need to get other things right first.
"Of course it's frustrating, but believe it or not that (getting the first win) is not the focus.
"If you are going to focus on win, win, win, you are not going to get the game right, and you have to get the game right to win. I think today we got it right."
Rangers seemed to have rescued a point when Sebastian Polter headed in an 86th-minute equaliser to cancel out Abel Hernandez's opener.
However, when defender Grant Hall and goalkeeper Rob Green collided as they attempted to clear Sam Clucas' cross, the ball struck substitute Diomande and rebounded into the net.
"It looked like we were going to get the three points after we scored. There was only one team in it at that moment," Hasselbaink said.
"I think we were unfortunate to lose that game. It was not a game where they hammered us or we hammered them. It was actually a draw in a way."
Hull, meanwhile, are third in the table and manager Steve Bruce believes keeping their best players during this month's transfer window is crucial to their promotion chances.
"It's still too early to say, but we've got a chance (of promotion)," said Bruce.
"We've brought in some younger players who have done well, so we have got a good mix.
"The important thing now is to keep hold of what we've got. That's going to be the key."
The result was the perfect birthday present for the Tigers boss, who turned 55 on Thursday, and a major boost after three consecutive away defeats.
He said: " After the last three away games you could see we were a bit nervous and edgy and needed a result to set us on our way again, and we got that.
"In the last three away games we haven't got anywhere near the level required, but now we have got this result."
Source: PA
