JASON Roberts hopes he has finally put his injury problems behind him after he helped rescue a point for Blackburn Rovers at Fulham yesterday.

The former Wigan striker, who was back in the squad for the first time in two months, proved to be his side's saviour by laying on second half goals for Brett Emerton and Stephen Warnock.

It was a triumphant return for Roberts, who made a telling contribution after replacing the injured Benni McCarthy early in the first half.

"It was just nice to get back on the pitch again," said Roberts, who is fit again after a thigh injury.

"Obviously, it was disappointing to see Benni get injured but, from my point of view, it was nice to be back involved again.

"It was always going to be hard because Fulham is never an easy place to come, but I thought we showed a lot of character to come back twice, and maybe we are even a little bit disappointed that we didn't go on and win it in the end.

"It's a measure of how far we've come that we come to places like this and want to get the three points but, at the same time, after being down twice, coming back to get a point has to be a positive for us."

Rovers fell behind to a 51st minute penalty, controversially awarded against Ryan Nelsen for a challenge on Diomansky Kamara.

However, Roberts then had a hand - or rather FROM BACK PAGE a head - in Emerton's equaliser six minutes later.

But Fulham hit back, once again controversially, in the 63rd minute, Kamara finishing off a sweeping move, despite being clearly offside in the build-up.

Rovers dug deep, though, and, inspired by Roberts, they grabbed a second equaliser, this time courtesy of Warnock, 11 minutes from time.

"It's good to share the goals around every now again," said Roberts.

"Brett did really well with his finish, and so did Warny with his, so they are happy about that.

"Now let's hope we can push on.

"It's been frustrating for me with the injury and stuff but hopefully that's all behind me now, and I can start to push regularly to play in the side again."