WE are a quarter of a way into the season and while Blackburn’s results may not be as good as we would all like, the table actually does not look that bad.

Four points off the play-off positions and six from the automatic places, with plenty of games still to play, there is no need to worry yet.

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But don’t get me wrong, we should have beaten Huddersfield on Saturday.

It’s frustrating because when it comes to the lesser sides, like Huddersfield and like Rotherham in the game beforehand, it seems like Blackburn tend to struggle.

Luckily everyone else is struggling to put a string of results together too.

Look at Norwich, the team at the very top of the table.

They have got only 21 points from a possible total of 33.

At this stage no side is driving away with the league.

That said the gap will only become bigger if Blackburn continue to drop points from games they should be winning.

I wouldn’t say that is particularly the case for the games we’ve got remaining in October – they are all pretty difficult.

We tend not to get much from Ipswich at Portman Road, Nottingham Forest away is going to be hard because they are flying high, and Birmingham I find can be hit and miss. But we have to go on a run at some point between now and Christmas, when it starts to become hectic.

That’s why I’d be looking for five points from these next three games, a point each away at Ipswich and Nottingham Forest and a win at home to Birmingham.

Can Blackburn do that? Why not?

They have shown they can take points off what people would call the bigger teams this season – Cardiff, Wigan and Fulham – and the fascinating thing about the Championship is that it is such a tough league and such a tough league to predict.

As disappointing as the Huddersfield result was, that’s gone now.

It’s now a case of getting the players back from international duty fit and well, getting the players who are injured back on the pitch, and then starting afresh again against Ipswich in the next match.