BRADLEY Dack has become a key player for Rovers with five goals and four assists in his last 10 games, writes Simon Garner.

The number 10 role is very common these days but rarely did you have one when I was playing as most teams went 4-4-2 or 4-3-3.

It is an important position as you need to contribute the goals of a striker but the assists of a midfielder. Dack had two more assists and another goal on Saturday against Bury and is doing well, it’s important to keep him fit.

It is good to spread the goals around because if you are reliant on that one player and they get injured or lose form then you can struggle.

You want as many players chipping in with goals as possible. If you have one player in form then they can get targeted by the opposition, but if you have got two or three players in form then it becomes more difficult.

That probably happened at times in my career as you get noticed if you are scoring goals.

But if you scoring week in, week out and full of confidence then sometimes it doesn’t matter about the opposition you just feel every week that you are going to score.

Saturday was a banana skin of a game but Rovers came through it comfortably.

Going to Oxford will be a tough game but Tony Mowbray will want to keep their momentum going. They will also come up against a familiar face in the opposition dugout in Derek Fazackerley.

When I was an apprentice at Rovers he was one who would always have his say in the dressing room and had football in his blood and you knew that he was going to stay in the game.

He was great for the dressing room and under-rated as a player.

He was captain of the side and he knew how he had to be with the team, the ones who needed a telling off and the ones who needed an arm around the shoulder for their confidence.

He helped take the pressure off the manager and you need players like that in every dressing room.