AS the search for new QPR and Fulham managers threatens to stretch into a second month it underlines just how good a job Blackburn Rovers did in snapping up Paul Lambert.

Having called time on Gary Bowyer’s reign they made Lambert their number one target and got their man in the space of five days.

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It may have seemed an eternity from the moment the bookmakers made the decorated Scot the favourite for the Ewood Park post to the moment his appointment was confirmed.

But it was all done and dusted in five days.

It was swift and it was divisive and everything Rovers, and their owners Venky’s, have done since then suggests that, after a start to the season in which the club appeared to be drifting, they mean business.

New contracts for Corry Evans and John O’Sullivan have been boxed off and one should be forthcoming for Craig Conway.

Doneil Henry has returned to the club and, as the clock ticks closer to the closure of the emergency loan window, you would not bet against him being joined by another new boy come 5pm this evening.

All were the right decisions.

Evans has, by and large, been playing some of the best football of his Rovers career, and the box-to-box midfielder should be able to fit into the high-tempo style Lambert wants to adopt.

O’Sullivan may need one more loan spell away from the club before he is truly ready, but it is clear by the number of the lower-division outfits that covet him, and by the fact that the club has now handed two contract extensions in the space of a year, that he has talent.

Judging by what we saw last season, we know Henry has that, too.

And Conway? Well, Rovers are unlikely ever to spend a better £100,000.

Throw in the fact that there is quiet confidence that the Financial Fair Play embargo could be lifted without having to sell another player, and it all paints a picture of a club, and owners, re-energised.

Roll on Sheffield Wednesday.