TONY Mowbray labelled Rovers’ performance in the draw at Shrewsbury Town as among their ‘poorest of the season’ and says they looked far from promotion contenders.

Rovers rallied late on to rescue a point as Bradley Dack scored his first of the club to cancel out Toto Nsiala’s strike just before the hour mark.

The hosts were on top for much of the game, and looked like securing an eighth win of the campaign before Dack’s equaliser five minutes from time.

Asked for his assessment, Mowbray said: “It was probably our poorest performance of the season, an unacceptable performance from where I sat and watched.

“We didn’t carry out what we had worked on, they played their own game for long spells really and we suffered for it.

“We will take the point from the game and move on but we accept that we have to play a lot better than that as we move on.

“I think it’s two points dropped from where we’re concerned, but from how the game was it was a point gained.

“They were decent, but I do expect Blackburn Rovers to be a lot better than Shrewsbury Town.

“We didn’t show that, we struggled for long spells, but the next game will have its own identity and we will see how we get on.

“Ultimately your performance level over 46 games will either get you promoted or see you finish in mid-table.

“If that’s the performance level then we will be nowhere near the promoted teams.

“All I’m saying to them is that we have to find a better performance level week in, week out.

“That’s probably the worst performance of the season but came away from the team at the top of the table with a point.”

Nsiala put the hosts ahead, hooking the ball in from close range as David Raya and Elliott Ward collided when trying to deal with a ball in to the box.

On the goal Rovers conceded, Mowbray added: “It was a big smash of players, you hope that the referee’s whistle might go for a foul on the goalkeeper, it didn’t and they put in.

“A ball they kept in the box, I would have hoped the goalie would have punched it, he said he punched the back of someone’s head, and it fell down to the lad who hooked it in.

“It was a disappointing goal (to concede).

“We expected to come here and win, we didn’t, and will put the point in the bag and move on.”