Roverall View, with JASON WHALLEY. . .

COME on Rovers, make your mind up!

Just as I was digging out the train timetables for Rotherham and Plymouth you go and string together a couple of wins and render my research useless. What is it with you, do you not want Nationwide League football?

Joking aside, how good was it to leave Ewood happy for a change.

Four months is a long time to go without a home win and even though the game itself was hardly an advert for the beautiful game the three points will do nicely thank you.

Not that it came easy mind you, I had to ask the bloke sat next to me if I could bite his nails in the second half, but Rovers do like to put you through the wringer.

I could analyse the game until the cows came home, but at the end of the day the result was just borne out of good old-fashioned desire and determination.

The front two worked their socks off, the midfielders tackled and closed down as if their livelihoods depended on it and the defence were uncompromising and, well, they actually defended!

That brings me on to one of our much maligned squad members Lorenzo Amoruso.

Some sections of the fans had a pre-conceived opinion of him before he'd even kicked a ball in a Rovers shirt.

Granted, he had a couple of poor games early on and the team struggled, so as a result the murmurings of discontent got louder. Still he continued to play on even though he was struggling with an injury, an injury that eventually needed treating resulting in a four-month lay-off.

It was during this lay off that Rovers produced some of the most inept football seen at Ewood for a long time.

The quality was shockingly poor and the team was playing without an apparent leader, someone who would lead from the front and not go missing when the going got tough.

It was at our lowest ebb after the Leeds game, the manager turned to the big Italian and the veteran Craig Short to display the bottle that had been so sadly lacking from our performances.

How he's been repaid. Two wins and six points later and possible relegation has been replaced with probable survival and the performance of Amoruso at both ends of the pitch have undoubtedly been a contributory factor.

Whether you rate him as a player or not, his commitment cannot be doubted.

So, the mythical survival target of 40 points that looked so unattainable a couple of games ago now looks a distinct probability never mind possibility and, unless we finish like Ashley Ward, we'll be playing Premiership football again next year.