Only things which are said in the four walls of Brockhall are important to Rovers, according to Danny Graham.

The Rovers striker says a strong self-belief has helped Tony Mowbray’s side acclimatise well to life back in the Championship after promotion from League One.

They sit 12th in the table a third of the way through the season and will hope to leapfrog this weekend’s opponents QPR with a win on Saturday at Ewood Park.

Graham is expected to return to the starting line-up against the Rs, with Rovers confident they can enjoy a successful season.

But any potential praise from outsiders isn’t of interest to Rovers who are happy to go under the radar.

“We have shown what we’re capable of and we need to keep our performance level high,” the 33-year-old said.

“People might expect us to fall away, but I don’t think anyone bothers about what anyone is saying out of the training ground.

“We know what we’re capable of, we’ve shown it against big teams in this league already and are more than capable of mixing it with the big boys.

“We need to keep our feet on the ground, train hard, prepare well, and see where it takes us.

“It could work in our favour, but we won’t read anything into that.

“We’ll just focus on ourselves on us as a group of players and stick together how we always do and make sure we go in to every game trying to win.”

Rovers went without a central striker at the weekend as Graham, Adam Armstrong and Ben Brereton all on the bench, with Bradley Dack leading the line.

Graham had scored the weekend before against Leeds United, and has four goals in all competitions.

He’s one of 10 players to have scored so far this season, with six players scoring more than once.

Of the importance of that, Graham said: “We have different ways of playing and different ways of scoring goals.

“If you look through the team, there’s goals all over the team.

“If you don’t have a 25/30 goal a season man we all have to chip in and we’ve done that so far.

“Hopefully that can continue and we can share the goals out and progress together.

“We go out on the grass, he sees what their weaknesses are, lets us know and we prepare for that.

“We need to take that on board and everyone who starts needs to put that out on to the pitch.”