MY front room was not a nice place to be on Saturday night as my wife would testify.

Another desperately disappointing defeat in one of those 'must win' games that we always contrive to lose and a total air of resignation to our impending relegation saw to the black mood.

All the fixtures were out, the calculations had been done and no amount of head scratching or number crunching could cook the books in our favour. We were doomed.

It's at these times that you can always rely on the better half to come out with a stinging one liner and she wasn't to let me down this time.

The immortal words 'it's only a game' were uttered in my darkest of dark moments leaving her to enjoy 'Murder in Suburbia' in total silence.

Reviewing the game it was hard to feel positive.

No worthwhile efforts on target and an ability to leak soft goals is hardly headline news at Ewood these days.

However, I did sense that there was distinctly more effort than in the previous games. Not much positivity to cling on to but a small crumb of comfort to carry into the next game nonetheless.

I suppose the good thing about the Easter period is that the next game comes quickly and there's no time to feel sorry for one's self.

The Fulham game gave the players the immediate opportunity to right the wrongs of Saturday and to give the fans something to believe in for the coming weeks.

How they responded!

I've been critical of the manager both in his team selection and his tactics previously, but he got this one spot on.

Tugay was played in what I consider to be his best position, behind the front two with three ball winners around him to free him of defensive duties.

Too often this season he's been picking the ball up off the back four and playing little sideways passes in his own half. He is, without doubt, the best passer we have and finally he was played in a position where he could 'hurt' the opposition.

We also got the ball forward early at every given opportunity and because there were ball winners in midfield we had more of a chance to win the second ball and play in the Fulham half.

It may have been unsophisticated at times but it was effective and how many times have we been able to say that about a Rovers team this season ?

It was a truly massive three points.

Looking back now I believe that the Leeds game was a watershed for Souness.

I think it made him realise that the team isn't as good as he once thought it was and as such he has to sacrifice his footballing philosophies to play to the strengths of the players he's got.

Principles are all well and good but they don't guarantee Premiership football, so if we have to get the points by playing ugly football then so be it.

Monday's result gave us a glimmer, we must follow it up with a result against Leicester on Saturday.