It has been a rather disappointing season so far for Blackburn Rovers.

A run of just one win from their last 13 games has seen Tony Mowbray's side plummet down the Championship table, and they now sit 15th in the second-tier standings.

As a result, those early season hopes of breaking into the play-off places have long since evaporated for the Ewood Park club, who may still need to claim a few more points from somewhere to ensure they are not dragged into a relegation battle at the wrong end of the table.

Here, though we're turning our focus away from the current campaign, to take a look back at some of those who have made a more positive impact at Ewood Park over the past few years.

To do that, we've put together our Blackburn Rovers team of the decade, using a 4-3-3 formation that has become rather familiar to fans of the club in recent months, but with the hope it could have a more positive influence than it has done in recent weeks.

We start this list in goal with a player who perhaps somewhat surprisingly made more appearances for Blackburn than any other club he represented in his career, in the shape of Paul Robinson.

Although perhaps being better associated with his time playing for Leeds, Tottenham and England, Blackburn are the only club Robinson made more than 200 appearances for, just about doing so during a seven-year spell at Ewood Park.

During that time, Robinson established himself as a reliable figure for Rovers between the posts for a number of years, claiming the club's Player of the Year award in 2010/11, sticking around even after relegation to the Championship, eventually when his contract expired in the summer of 2015.

Taking the left-back berth in this particular starting lineup is Martin Olsson, who originally joined Rovers at academy level as a teenager in 2006.

Over the next few years, Olsson would go on to emerge as a regular feature in Blackburn's matchday squad, with his rapid pace in particular making him a big asset for the Ewood Park club from the wing-back position, and he played an important role in keeping the club in the Premier League in 2010/11.

Olsson went on to make just short of 150 appearances for Blackburn in total, before leaving in 2013, when he would then continue to be a useful figure in the top two levels of English football first for Norwich and then Swansea, and he is now back playing in his native Sweden.

The first of the two centre backs to take a place in this lineup is someone who is still a key figure in Tony Mowbray's current Blackburn side now, in the shape of Darragh Lenihan.

Having come through the clubs academy, Lenihan has gone on to establish himself as a regular feature in the Rovers matchday squad, where his growing leadership skills have been vital in helping to develop a variety of different younger or less established central defensive partners.

The two time Republic of Ireland international recently passed the landmark of 200 appearances in all competitions for Blackburn, and it has now reached the point where it is unusual to see him on the Ewood Park pitch without the captain's armband.

You all have to go quite a long way back in the decade to find Chris Samba in a Blackburn shirt, but he is never the less well worth his place in this side.

A colossal figure at the back, there will have been few who relished going up against the centre back in either penalty area, with his passion, determination and unquestionable ability making him a fans favourite at Ewood Park during his time with Rovers.

Samba left the club in somewhat contentious circumstances just months before the club's relegation to the Championship, but still remains one of the most talented and influential players seen at Ewood Park in the past ten years, meaning his place here does feel justified.

Having come through the youth setup at Blackburn, Nyambe's first real run in the senior side came just as Rovers were sliding towards relegation to League One in the 2016/17 season.

After helping Rovers win an immediate promotion from the third-tier the following campaign, Nyambe has continued to improve drastically since that return to the Championship, and defensively he is as reliable as any right-back in the division, while his attacking threat has also increased over time.

The Namibia international has now made over 150 appearances in all competitions for the club, and even at a time where Rovers have to deal with a long list of expiring contracts, a new deal for Nyambe - whose current deal comes to an end this summer - feels like a big priority at Ewood Park.

The first of the midfield spots in this side goes to a man whose standing as a Blackburn Rovers icon simply cannot be questioned, in the shape of David Dunn.

With the exception of a three-and-a-half-year spell with Birmingham, Dunn had spent the entirety of a previous decade at Ewood Park, and he having returned to Blackburn in 2007, would stay with the club until 2015, taking his tally of appearances for Rovers to well past the 350 mark.

The boyhood Blackburn fan's injury time equaliser against Burnley in 2013 is undoubtedly one of the moments of the decade for Rovers supporters, and that, along with his unerring passion and affection for the club, means he is well worth a place in this particular team.

How different might these past two seasons have been for Blackburn Rovers, were it not for the two Anterior Cruciate Ligament injuries suffered by Bradley Dack since December 2019?

The answer to that is one we are unlikely to ever know, but based on his impact prior to that, you imagine they would have been much more positive than they had been.

Having joined following Rovers relegation to League One in 2017, Dack was pivotal to the club's immediate promotion back to the Championship, and to them re-establishing themselves in the second-tier, before those two injuries that have hampered his past two seasons. Even so, 49 goals and 22 assists in 131 appearances for the club is a remarkable return for a midfielder.

Cairney joined Blackburn on loan from Hull in the summer of 2013, and within a few months, he had not surprisingly made that move a permanent one.

The midfielder, who was largely deployed on the right wing flourished at Ewood Park, winning the club's player of the year award during his debut campaign with Blackburn, where his creativity and eye for a spectacular goal made him a firm favourite amongst the Rovers faithful.

However, Cairney left the club just two years after joining to make a move to Fulham, who he has twice helped win promotion to the Premier League, while he has also reminded Rovers of his ability to produce a spectacular goal on more than one occasion since making the switch to Craven Cottage.

Danny Graham had found himself well down the pecking with his career stagnating at Sunderland when he joined Blackburn on loan in January 2016.

That move to Ewood Park however, would rejuvenate the striker, who returned permanently that summer and became the goalscorer Rovers had been looking for, playing a key role in the club's promotion from League One in 2017/18, and then alongside Dack in re-establishing the club in the Championship in 2018/19, when Graham was deservedly named the club's player of the year.

In total, Graham scored 57 goals and provided 21 assists in 191 appearances in all competitions for Blackburn, developing a strong relationship with the fans in that time, with the striker's departure from Ewood Park at the end of last season, and retirement a few months later, met with an overwhelming sense of emotion from the Rovers fanbase.

Joining Blackburn on loan from Cardiff in November 2013, Gestede made his move to Ewood Park permanently the following January, and by the end of the season, he had scored 13 goals in 27 league games.

The following season saw Gestede continue to shine at Ewood Park, and along with a certain Jordan Rhodes, formed a strike partnership to send fear through the Championship, as both passed the 20-goal mark in that 2014/15 season, thanks in no small part to Gestede's towering presence in the penalty area.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Gestede's ability and personality made him a considerably popular figure at Ewood Park prior to his departure for Aston Villa in the summer of 2015, although the Benin international has really been able to make the same impact as he did for Rovers, and now finds himself in Australia with A-League strugglers Melbourne Victory.

You would imagine that for the vast majority of Blackburn supporters the first name written down that in their Rovers team of the past decade, would be that of Jordan Rhodes.

Following their relegation from the Premier League in 2012, Rovers broke their transfer record to sign the free-scoring Scot from Huddersfield, and he certainly didn't disappoint at Ewood Park, with Rhodes often finding himself on the periphery of games for Blackburn, only to then arrive on the scene with a crucial goal at a vital moment for the club.

All in all, Rhodes would score 85 goals in 169 appearances in all competitions across three-and-a-half years at Blackburn before a move to Middlesbrough in the 2016 winter transfer window, and while, like Gestede, he hasn't been quite the same since, there are few who made the same impact as Rhodes at Ewood Park during the past ten years.