Allardyce saw his side go 1-0 down when Gareth Bale escaped his marker to head home a Rafael van der Vaart delivery in the 16th minute.
The goalscorer then turned provider for Roman Pavlyuchenko, who had earlier missed a penalty, which left Rovers with an uphill task.
More misery was placed on Allardyce and his men when Peter Crouch converted a rebound and Bale added his second. Ryan Nelsen and Gael Givet struck late on but it was nothing more than a consolation for the visitors.
"The game from my point of view as a defensive unit was diabolical and as an attacking unit very exciting," Allardyce said.
"But it is no good gifting the opposition four goals before you start putting the ball in the back of the net. We are very disappointed about the way we defended today.
"We gave ourselves too big a mountain to climb by not doing the basic defending right, which is unlike us, unusual, but unfortunate, and we will just have to take it on the chin.
"We had our times in the game. We had a penalty given against us which wasn't a penalty. Paul Robinson had both hands on the ball but they missed it.
"We had two chances which we didn't take and then Gareth Bale goes up the other end and puts a cross in and Pavlyuchenko knocks it in for 2-0.
"That is the telling time in football. You have to punish the opposition when you are in control of the game. We made a lot of chances in the second half. But their third goal summed our defending up today.
"It was a good save from Paul Robinson and the ball falls to Givet. All he has to do is clear but he gives it to Crouch to score. That summed us up today in that one moment.
"We should really have scored more than two. It was nice to see us open them up in the way we did. But Bale punished us severely today."
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