Perhaps it was due to being inexperienced in front of the microphone, but I found it hard to believe that Steve Kean described Rovers first half performance at Goodison Park as “more than good enough”.

Leaving aside the grammatical and philosophical objections to that statement, it has to be very worrying that a performance which consisted at least offensively of one off-target Roque shot, is apparently accepted as “better than good”.

I can’t wait to see what super-latives Steve comes up with if we actually score.

After another dispiriting defeat, we are surely entitled to ask what has happened to the promise to sweep away the Sam Allardyce negativity and play exciting attacking football, glimpses of which we did see in the honeymoon victories over West Bromich (away) and Liverpool.

The sad thing is it needn’t have been this way. I conducted a completely unscientific survey over the weekend by asking 10 fans if they believed we would be in such a perilous position if Venky’s had stuck with Allardyce at least until the end of the season.

Nine out of 10 said they were absolutely confident we would have been safe, with the general consensus being we would now be already on 40 points.

The one dissenting voice proclaimed that it was inevitable we would go down this season come what may because what Burnley does Blackburn will follow, as he fell off his barstool.

I was not best pleased either with the FA Cup semi-final outcomes from a Rovers’ perspective.

I was hoping for a Manchester United-Bolton final simply because I believed that if they had a Wembley final on their minds when they played us it could have been to our advantage.

If United had triumphed it would have meant moving the home game against them to my birthday and I was going to ask Fergie as a special present to take it easy on us! I know we do have to play City next home game but they are still pressing for a Champions League place and thoughts of Wembley will be too far away for it to be a meaningful factor.

And yet, despite us being on our worst run of games without a win (10 and counting in all competitions) since 1986 there is still hope.

Survival remains in our own hands and it may take just one win (Stoke showed that Bolton can be got at) and avoiding defeat at West Ham to set up a possible winner takes all clash at Molineux as this most exciting of relegation battles reaches its climax.

For probably the first time however, and in spite of all the positive pronouncements we have heard and will continue to receive from players and manage-ment, I’m seriously wondering if the personnel at Ewood believe in themselves.