ROVERS boss Graeme Souness was delighted with Saturday's dramatic 1-1 draw against Bolton at the Reebok.

Rovers appeared to be heading for a 1-0 defeat until Craig Short popped up with a 95th minute equaliser to rescue a point which Souness felt was fully deserved.

"In the first half Bolton shaded it and deserved to be 1-0 in front but I felt we had the better of the second half and it would have been an injustice if we hadn't got something out of the game," said the Rovers boss.

"If we'd have made it 1-1 earlier then I felt we would have gone on to win it but when you equalise with just three seconds left it doesn't really give you that option.

"We told Shorty to stay up there in the closing stages. It was a last throw of the dice and he was just the nearest player to me when I was shouting.

"But it would have been an injustice if we hadn't got at least a point.

"Their keeper made a couple of good saves but it was more a case of us missing a couple of opportunities and when Dwight hit the woodwork I thought it wasn't going to be our day.

"We kept going, though, and I thought the referee was right to play that amount of injury time, but I'm the Blackburn Rovers manager so what do you expect me to say?"

David Thompson, who had a hand in the equaliser, was also relieved to snatch a point, although he felt Rovers did enough to nick all three.

"I thought we absolutely dominated it for 75 minutes and I was disappointed to come away with a point in the end," said Thompson.

"We started slowly and it cost us and that's something we are going to have to sort out because we seem to start slowly in most games.

"Most of the goals we concede are soft ones. Sometimes you have to hold your hand up and say you've been done by a good goal but we didn't pick up the second ball which was disappointing.

"That said, we showed great resilience and I always felt we had a chance of scoring, I just didn't realise how deep into injury time it was."

Meanwhile, Rovers face an away tie at Aston Villa in the third round of the FA Cup following yesterday's draw.

The game will be played on the weekend beginning January 4.

And David Dunn should find out today how serious his hamstring injury is after he was brought off on Saturday.