TONY Mowbray reckons Rovers are capable of beating anybody in the Championship as they aim to finish the season strongly.

Mowbray’s men are currently fourth in the league table with eight games still to play before the end of the season.

The Rovers boss insists his players “deserve huge credit” for what they have achieved since the start of the campaign and hopes they can at least maintain their place in the top six.

He said: “The team have been amazing in my opinion. You don’t see how they young and immature they are, they are boys really and they are fighting for everything.

“They deserve huge credit and yet you can see they struggle a bit. That’s why I’ve said to them, ‘forget the tactics at times’.

“You have to play with emotion, don’t worry what’s behind you. Push in, win tackles, fight and get on the front foot.

“They can beat anybody in this league. We’ve got eight games left, we’ll just go and try to win every one of them.

“I know we won’t win all of them but we will give it our best shot, and they have to turn up every game.

“Hopefully we’ll win enough to get enough points to at least finish in the top six and then we’ll get a little break, we will refresh them.

“We can beat anybody at home, let’s see how it goes over two legs. And if we get to a Wembley final, you’ve got to embrace the pressure and see if you can get the job done.”

Tuesday night’s win against Derby was Rovers’ second win in their last 10 league matches, and Mowbray insists they have deserved far from more the run in.

But the Rovers chief admits getting points on the board is the priority at this stage and insists they have to find a way to win in the final weeks of the campaign.

He added: “When you get to this stage it’s about getting the three points. We’ve really struggled and yet as I’ve said week after week, I think we’ve been fantastic.

“When you think back over the last 10 games, ‘how did we not score in that game?’ We missed a couple of penalties over the last recent weeks.

“If we’d have scored first against Swansea and Nottingham Forest, I’m 100 per cent sure we’d have won those matches.

“The team played extremely well in those games but you get judged by the result. As I keep saying to them, we have to be able to adapt and find a way to win.

“They did extremely well (against Derby). They played with emotion in the second half and that’s what got us through.”