Harrison Reed said he’s learning every day at Rovers and is proud to be part of this squad of players.

Reed was terrific in the 1-1 draw with West Brom on Saturday and deserved the goal which brought Rovers level. The Southampton loanee has started the last seven league matches and has become a hit with the club’s supporters.

The 23-year-old is on loan at Ewood for the season and says he’s learning from boss Tony Mowbray and the players in the dressing room.

“I’m loving it. I just wanted to come and play football and learn,” he said. “I’m proud to be a part of this group and the way they have welcomed me in.

“The manager has been great with me since I came in so long may that continue. I’m learning from going out on the pitch, this club has given me the opportunity to go out and get minutes and help the team.

“I’m learning day by day, we have some quality players in the dressing room, experienced players, a great manager who knows the league and I’m picking information from everyone and taking it on board.”

Reed celebrated with gusto at the final whistle after Rovers held on for a point after ending the game a man short with midfielder Richie Smallwood in goal after injury to David Raya.

“That’s the group we’ve got, we’ll give everything for each other and not leave anything out on the pitch,” he added.

“The fans come and support so we owe it to them to go out there and give everything we’ve got.

“We had a gameplan, I thought it worked well in the first half and I thought we were unfortunate to go in behind.

“The second half we knew we needed to come out and play on the front foot, put them under pressure and play with an intensity and show them their quality. That’s what I thought we did.”

Reed felt that without Raya’s injury Rovers could have gone on to win the game, having held on for the final 14 minutes after going down to 10 men.

Smallwood took over the goalkeeping duties, convincing his team-mates he was the best man for the job despite having never been in goal before.

“He claimed he’s a good keeper so I don’t know how he knew that,” Reed joked.

“There was a chat between Benno (Elliott Bennett) and Richie and Richie was adamant.

“He obviously lied to us, but he did a great job.”

Reed was involved in two big incidents during the game scoring the equaliser with a fine 25-yarder, while also seeing his cross hit the hands of West Brom midfielder James Morrison, only for referee to wave away penalty appeals.

On the equaliser, Reed said: “It looked good but I lost sight of it as I started wheeling away a little bit so I suppose I thought it might be going in, but then I heard the roar and it was a great moment.”

On the penalty that never was, he added: “I had a great view of it. I tried to dink it to the back post and the defender had two arms in the air.

“The referee said he didn’t see it, the linesman said he didn’t see it, but that’s football, what can you do about it?

“We had to push on after that and not let it affect us.”