The jury is still out on Blackburn Rovers boss Jon Dahl Tomasson.

That might seem a strange suggestion to make given they sit fourth in the Championship 28 games into his first season in charge at Ewood Park but his team's performances have regularly been unconvincing and the underlying numbers suggest they're in a false position.

Rovers have relied on a quite remarkable conversion rate - scoring 31 goals from just 255 shots - while the xG table has them second bottom above only Rotherham United.

Statistics are not everything, of course, but in this case, they add to a feeling that Tomasson is yet to fully convince that he can have success at the Lancashire club.

That said, the Norweigian coach does deserve a huge amount of credit for the way he's handled Bradley Dack's return to the side this season and Blackburn are currently enjoying the dividends of his careful approach.

There can be no denying Dack's talents but there will have been some wondering whether the 29-year-old would ever be able to fully recover from the blight of injury issues that have made the last few years so difficult for him.

Few in the stands at Ewood Park held that opinion, however, and Tomasson came under lots of fan pressure to involve the playmaker more and build things around him during the early months of his tenure.

Sunderland, led by former Rovers boss Tony Mowbray were linked with a January move for Dack in that period, which only increased the frustration from some parts of the fanbase.

But he did not bow to that pressure and the careful management of the attacking midfielder in the autumn looks to be paying dividends now.

"It was a brilliant goal," Tomasson said of the opener Dack scored in the 1-1 draw with Bristol City on Saturday. "First, overloading at the right-hand side. Good movement. We played with few touches.

"A good run from Morton, an eight run, and a cutback. Bradley had chosen an excellent position and a good finish."

On Dack's finish, he added: "Normally, he does that."

Tomasson is right. That is the sort of final third quality we've come to expect from Dack and a level that he's reached with more consistency in recent weeks.

The player now has three goals and an assist in his last eight games - all starts - and has begun to look like his old self again.

That can only be a good thing for Blackburn and it's something that Tomasson deserves a lot of credit for.