GRAHAM: OUR BOSS WAS JUST WHAT WE NEEDED
DANNY Graham has hailed the impact manager Tony Mowbray has made during his time in charge at Blackburn.
Mowbray replaced Owen Coyle in February 2017, but could not save the club from relegation to League One.
However, he has turned Rovers around since, leading them to promotion before ensuring they held their own on their return to the second tier of English football.
Striker Graham, 33, said: “I think everyone can see he has had a great impact on the club. We were going nowhere, to be honest, when he walked through the door.
“If he came in earlier, maybe we would have been safe and wouldn’t have got relegated.
“But the way he has got the club, the staff, the players and the fans pulling in the right direction is a great credit to him and his backroom staff.
“He is honest and gets his point across. If you are not performing you will find yourself on the bench.
“Everyone has bought into that and that is good for us as a squad.
“He has brought a structure, he wants hard work, pressing on the front foot and to get after teams when it is the right time.
“He analyses every team ever so well, knowing pretty much everything about their players and how they are going to play, so that gives us a better chance of winning on a Saturday.”
Fellow forward Adam Armstrong, 22, has urged Blackburn to finish the season well.
“We need to start picking things up,” he said. “We want to push on and finish the season on a high.
“We have to push on. I think we have 12 games left, so the aim for us is to win every single one of them to finish as high up the table as possible.”