JASON Wilcox has admitted that it is up to the players to save under fire boss Ray Harford from the sack

For while the Ewood Park boss has received widespread criticism for Rovers worse ever start to a season - long serving Wilcox says it is the players who have let the club down.

He said: "I can't say why it is but it is the players on the pitch who have let the club down and not the manager. But we are all very confident that we will get it right.

"While we are the first ones to admit that we have not played well, confidence is still high and we have only played 10 league games. There is no talk of relegation what so ever."

The fit again wide man, who endured 11 months of injury, has been through hell and high water with Rovers since signing school boy forms with the club 10 years ago

And he knows what it is like to be in a struggling Rovers side having diced with the drop from the old Second Division before Kenny Dalglish and Harford turned the club around in such dramatic circumstances.

But this must current predicament must rank as the worst - with Rovers the only side in the country without a win and unceremoniously dumped out of the Coca Cola Cup by Second Division Stockport County.

But the 26-year-old Bolton-born flyer shrugged of County catastrophe and in true football fashion - will take each game as it comes.

"We travel to West Ham on Saturday and our main aim is to win the game to get our season going."

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