ROY Hodgson has only one basic promise to make to Blackburn Rovers supporters - that they will get "blood and sweat" from him and his team.

"I think the one promise all managers and players should make to fans at the level we are at is that we are going to do our very best and leave blood and sweat on the field in order to achieve goals," he said.

"That's the basic promise you can give.

"Then I think with the fans' support and, if the amalgam of players is right, you can have great success - as the club has proved by winning the championship with just those qualities. It is important we don't lose sight of the qualities which led to the club's enormous success in recent years.

"If we can build on it and do something we'll be very happy to do so.

"We will always be working for that and I am just hoping the fans will get behind the team as they seem to be doing now.

"I have been quite impressed on the videos to see 23-24,000 for matches at the wrong end of the table. It's fantastic.

"With that type of support, Blackburn will not go wrong."

"But it's up to us to give them what they want and to excite them.

"Funnily enough there's a backside to the coin and they have to give us something as well.

"We need them, that's for sure. It's very much a partnership. "But the one guarantee we have to give them is that the ambition is absolutely there.

"The fans can expect that the club is not investing in an international trainer like me if they don't have ambitions. That's the first thing.

"And if the ambition was not there, they would not be prepared to spend money to bring good quality players to the club, as they have already done and no doubt will continue to do so.

"So I think the fans have already got a very concrete example of that ambition.

"We are going to work very hard as staff and players to do well.

"Then you need a little bit of luck or blend, like the team had in the championship year, which sends you all the way.

"But unless you get the other things right, you will never get there."But the incoming manager believes the club's ambitions have already been demonstrated to the fans - not least by the fact that they were able to tempt the boss of Inter Milan to Ewood.

And he wants all Rovers supporters to work in partnership with the players to help try to achieve a return to the successful days of two years ago.

Already, Hodgson admits he has been impressed with the support for the club, particularly considering their lowly position.

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