Bradley Dack has opened up on his injury struggles at Blackburn Rovers which robbed him of his best years.

The 30-year-old is now back at Gillingham, where he started his career, seven years after Tony Mowbray signed him at Ewood Park.

Dack was a sensation for Rovers and every inch a modern-day club legend. His performances in the League One promotion season and then subsequently in the Championship made him hot property.

West Brom are known to have launched a very serious attempt to sign Dack for an eight-figure sum just before he suffered the first of two serious knee injuries.

Dack tore his anterior cruciate ligament before suffering the exact same injury, to his opposite knee, a year after the first. It was a heart-breaking moment for the popular attacker.

"It’s definitely been a difficult couple of years,” Dack told SportsBoom.com. “But I feel like I’ve still got a lot more to offer.

“I had great success at Blackburn and had promotion in my first season in League One, then really building on that in the two years in the Championship.

“But then I obviously picked up the injury when my goal then was to try and go into the Premier League. At the time, when I did my knee, we felt that was a real option.

“It’s been really difficult and hard to take, but unfortunately injuries are part and parcel of football, and I was just unlucky it happened to me on that occasion.

“But my body feels good. If I can keep myself fit, then I can definitely have a good season – and hopefully, that can lead to promotion.

Dack added: “The two ACLs were tough to take, especially the second one.

“The first one was probably a little bit harder because I’d never experienced it before. They were difficult moments in my career, but I’d never look back with regret.

“It (injuries) is part and parcel of football, it just happened to be that time for me. It just happened, unfortunately."

Dack returned to full fitness in Mowbray's final season but was never a first-choice pick for Jon Dahl Tomasson.

He then reunited with his former boss at Sunderland but barely played after he was sacked after struggling with a hamstring issue.

“I came back after my second ACL and had a bit of season with Tony Mowbray at Sunderland, but my first full season back was with Jon Dahl Tomasson (at Blackburn)," he said.

“I was available and pretty much fit for the whole season, but I was in and out of the team and didn’t really work for me there.

“Then afterwards I went to Sunderland and started the season pretty well, but he then got sacked and stuff didn’t quite work out for me.

“I picked up a hamstring injury around Christmas, which was really difficult to rehab from.

“But now it’s about playing as many games as I can and enjoying it. That’s my goal now for however long my career is going to last. That’s my main aim.”