CORRY Evans has called on his Blackburn Rovers team-mates to start showing consistency if they are to stand a chance of being in the promotion shake-up come May.

Rovers have won three and lost three of their last six league matches after drawing their opening game of the season with a Cardiff City side who yesterday sacked boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

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Gary Bowyer’s men could not have been handed a much tougher start to the campaign.

After tomorrow’s trip to managerless Fulham they will have faced all three teams who came down from the Premier League, two sides who made the play-offs last season, and a Wolves outfit with real momentum behind them after winning League One.

It is still early days but Evans insists Rovers cannot afford to fall too far behind the teams at the top of what he believes could be the most competitive Championship yet.

The midfielder, who won promotion to the top flight with Hull City before arriving at Ewood Park in August 2013, said: “The nature of this league is there are so many good teams who all think they can go and get promoted this year.

“I think it’s the toughest it’s been for a number of years and so it’s just about finding the consistency.

“The teams who have the most consistency usually come out on top – and we definitely have to find that.

“We have got to go to Fulham on Saturday and try and pick up points and get back to winning ways.”

Rovers head to the capital to face a struggling Fulham side, who yesterday parted company with manager Felix Magath, on the back of Wednesday’s 3-2 home loss to Derby County.

Evans admits the performance in the first half was ‘good enough’.

But he reckons Rovers were let down by the officials for the second home match running.

After Wigan Athletic were awarded a contentious penalty in last Saturday’s 3-1 success, Jamie Ward appeared to foul Craig Conway in the lead up to his second – and Derby’s third – killer goal.

“After a good performance on Saturday we went into the game full of confidence,” said Evans, who went close to a dramatic equaliser after Rudy Gestede had given Rovers hope.

“But the first half we weren’t really good enough and getting tight enough to people – and it cost us.

“With their third goal I think the referee had a part to play and in the end we just couldn’t pull another back.

“We made a perfect start but they are a good side who pass it about and get into little spaces which makes it hard to mark.

“We just couldn’t get to grips with that in the first half, they managed to get two goals and it was frustrating going in 2-1 down at half-time.

“But the manager just told us to go out, up the tempo and get in their faces more.

“We did that in the second half and we were very frustrated coming off the pitch having not come away with at least a point.”