MARCH could be the month that makes or breaks Rovers’ season. The City game on Saturday is barely worth a mention.

With the way the blues are going, it is best to just write that match off and hope for the best.

That way, if we get anything but a tonking, it will really give us something to celebrate.

Following that potential horror show are three matches we really need to take some serious points from.

Villa at home on March 3 is huge. They are struggling, and with a couple of dodgy results and a couple of Rovers wins could be dragged into the dogfight.

They haven’t won in three league games, but will probably put some distance between themselves and the bottom five when they travel to Wigan on Saturday.

Having said that, Wigan have consistently surprised people during their time in this league and to write them off after their win over Bolton would be premature.

Following that, we travel to Wolves, eager to avenge that opening day defeat that wiped away any optimism we may have had going in to the season.

It is the scene of probably Steve Kean’s best day as Rovers boss. The day we finally secure our Premier League status with a fabulous first half performance on the final day of last season.

Anything like that would be welcomed.

Wolves are under a great deal of pressure and have been awful of late, but we must be wary of being on the wrong end of ‘new manager syndrome’ should Mick McCarthy’s replacement move in before then.

There’s the Sunderland game to fit in at Ewood, which upsets the balance a bit. But at home, Sunderland are a team we can win if we are on our game.

Then it is off to the Reebok for what could be a real mouth-watering relegation scrap with our rivals down the M61.

Again, we are out for revenge, we were scabbed at the Breezeblock Arena last season when we really should have won (let’s not get started on what that led to!) before that humiliating defeat at Christmas really hammered home how desperate our situation was.

If we can take a good number of points from those games, we will be in good stead, ahead of the next write-off match at home to Manchester United.

We are in a slightly (emphasis on slightly) fortunate position at the moment. Our fate rests in our hands.

The bottom three are unlikely to pick up a great deal more points.

Bolton Wanderers face trips to Chelsea and Manchester City, while Wigan Athletic’s only win since December 10 was against the Wanderers.

And Wolves have only won once since December 4, and that was against fellow strugglers QPR.

Two weeks ago I said we were down. I have changed my mind and now think we will stay up.

But I’ll see if I have changed it again by the end of March...