BLACKBURN Rovers boss Sam Allardyce says he may be ready to abort plans to play two up front this season after David Dunn again impressed with a goalscoring performance in the supporting role on Saturday.

Utilised off lone striker Jason Roberts, Dunn produced a second successive man of the match display as Rovers beat Wolves 3-1 at Ewood Park to claim their first league win of the season and move out of the relegation zone.

The 29-year-old notched his second goal in three appearances this season after returning from the persistent hamstring and Achilles problems that restricted him to just seven league starts during 2008/09.

And Allardyce, who also saw El-Hadji Diouf and Roberts find the net, has suggested that he could now stick with the same 4-4-1-1 formation – even though he signed Nikola Kalinic and Franco Di Santo in the summer with the intention of playing two strikers.

Asked whether he may have found Dunn’s best position, he said: “At the moment it looks like it.

“The huge concern for the strikers we’ve got at the club is that Dunny is playing so well in that role, because I’ve got four very good strikers.

“Two very young, inexperienced but talented - Franco Di Santo and FROM BACK PAGE Niko Kalinic - and two of the greater experience and good talent as well, Jason Roberts and Benni McCarthy.

“I was expecting we’d be playing with a 4-4-2 most of the time this season because it suited us.

“But all of a sudden Dunny’s popped up and not only created goals and opportunities but he’s scored two himself, against Gillingham and on Saturday.

“In that position the opposition find it difficult on how to mark him.

“He’s finding a huge amount of space and it means that we don’t have to ask him to do too much out of possession, just get back in the hole and do a bit of defending when we can and get him free when we’re in possession. It’s working wonderfully well at the moment.

“His skill and talent is something we need on a weekly basis.”

And, impressed by Dunn’s form, Allardyce believes the lifelong Rovers fan is ready to shake off his injury problems and make a real impact – two-and-a-half years after believing the midfielder’s snub cost his Bolton side a place in the Champions League.

Dunn looked set to move to the Reebok when Bolton were challenging for a top four spot in January 2007, but the then Birmingham midfielder instead made a last-minute decision to return to Ewood for a second spell.

“He was daft not joining us then,” recalled the Rovers boss.

“We could have finished fourth with him. We were third in the league when he was thinking about coming to us at my old club there.

“But he decided to come to Blackburn and did very well in his first season or so. I think he was fit nearly all the time.

“It’s only for a couple of seasons he’s got the niggly injuries but hopefully he’s done an awful lot to overcome those problems and let’s keep all fingers crossed that he now has finished with that series of injuries and he can have a long run of playing football for Blackburn Rovers, which is really where he loves the most to be honest.

“That was the difference with him not joining my old club.

“He loves this club and you always want somebody playing for you that has something special with regards the club he’s at.”