TONY Mowbray celebrates a month in charge of Blackburn Rovers today and is looking forward to finally swapping the video room for the training pitches.

Rovers played seven games in Mowbray's first 24 games in charge, but they take a break from action during an international hiatus allowing the head coach a first extended period of time to work with the players on the Brockhall training pitches.

Mowbray was thrust in to the Ewood hot-seat with 15 games of the season remaining, with Rovers three points from safety.

And while he has enjoyed a seven game unbeaten start Mowbray believes there is room for improvement.

“If we had been losing games then I probably would have been moaning about a lack of time on the grass to get my message across,” he said.

“We’ve had to do a lot of work in the video room and I’m sure the players will probably tell you they’re getting pretty sick of sitting in front of TV screens of clips.

“But I think it’s important to get that message across and I have had a few come to me and say that they quite enjoy it.

“It’s been game, travel, game, travel, so there’s a lot of work being down in the video room and on the blackboards rather than out on the grass.

“The lack of training opportunities has been a slight frustration but it doesn’t seem to have hindered the team and they have performed well.

“The international break will give us time to get out more on the grass and less time in the video room.

“You’re best doing it out on the grass, ideally you get to the point when you do your training drills and you marry that up to what to do in the games.”

Mowbray admits Rovers’ style of play may not have been expansive as he would like so far, but he’s been pleased with the way the players have taken his ideas on board.

“You have to give players the guidelines and I have been pleasantly surprised by their application of the guidelines that I set about how I set teams up and what I ask them to do,” he added.

“They have taken that out on to the pitch.

“They have done everything asked of them.

“I’m enjoying the challenge, it’s good to be back working, trying to find the answers for a team to get points.”

Rovers have been well backed by supporters - both home and away in Mowbray’s seven games in charge.

The head coach admits he feared a potential disconnect between the supporters and the club, but says his experience has been nothing but positive.

“I’ve enjoyed it –it’s a fantastic club, with fantastic supporters, and I haven’t seen any disconnect that I was told that there might be,” he said.

“I don’t know what it was like before.  What I do know is that I try and create an environment where players can flourish, where supporters can see the effort going in and I think fans only want to see their team giving everything they’ve got, and hopefully they have seen that.”