TONY Mowbray accepts that Rovers aren’t converting enough chances but doesn’t believe it will be long before they start to find the back of the net with more regularity.

Mowbray saw his side create, but waste, a number of excellent goalscoring opportunities in the frustrating 1-1 draw with bottom side Plymouth Argyle.

It means that only on three occasions in their 12 League One fixtures have Rovers scored more than one goal after failing to break down a resilient Pilgrims defence in the second half of Tuesday’s draw.

That leaves Rovers 10th in the table having scored 16 goals in their opening 12 games but Mowbray has backed his side to start firing soon.

“Not on the evidence of that, I think if we play like that we are going to score more than one in a lot of games,” Mowbray said when asked if he had any concerns over the goals for column.

“At the moment we know that we aren’t scoring enough goals but there are reasons for that which we have spoken about.

“We have played deep to protect our central defence and sometimes when you’re breaking away 60 yards from goal then it’s difficult to score a goal.

“I don’t know what the shot count was but I think there was enough evidence to score goals at home.”

Rovers have two games in hand over many sides above them in the table but have dropped points in half of their matches to date, four of which have come infront of their own fans.

They will be looking for improvement when Portsmouth who sit level on points with Rovers ahead of their visit to Ewood Park on Saturday.

While acknowledging there is plenty of time left in the season Mowbray knows that his side will be judged on results which haven’t gone their way of late.

He added: “It’s the next game and an opportunity for three points at home.

“We will be looking forward to it, it’s the next challenge and hurdle and we have to get the points.

“I have looked at the table, if we win one of our games in hand then we are in the top six but we keep going.

“There is a massive amount of football to play so let’s keep believing in ourselves and pushing on.

“There are 34 games left, I think we can take a lot of belief from it yet the frustration is that we have to be cleverer or cuter about how we’re going to score the goals and get more men in the box, when to get the ball wide, get individuals one-on-one but there were positives to take.

“In football we get judged by results and that wasn’t what we wanted.”