SATURDAY showed just how tight the Championship is.

QPR are riding high near the top of the table and there was a lot of talk among their fans about how they are going to be there or thereabouts come the end of the season.

But I don’t think anyone who watched the game could say they were better than Rovers. There wasn’t much between the sides.

The first half wasn’t a classic, to say the least. I was falling asleep at times. But the game came to life in the second half.

Both teams had chances but I just had the feeling the only way QPR would score was with a set-piece. So it proved. If Lionel Messi had scored that free kick they would have been showing it all night on the telly.

Credit, Rovers, then, they didn’t let their heads drop and they got a equaliser with a really good goal by Sam Gallagher.

It was what we fully deserved. Everybody put in a shift, worked hard, and while there were a couple of players who I thought would have impressed but didn’t, like Ben Marshall, it was a good performance.

Especially defensively. I was worried after losing Shane Duffy and Grant Hanley but the team, from front to back, defended well as a unit.

When you do that it gives you a platform to build on and, while I think a point was a fair result, Rovers could have edged it.

They didn’t but they should still go to Leeds tonight full of confidence.

Leeds seem to be in a bit of turmoil where Rovers seem to have started to turn the corner.

But it’s all well and good playing well.

You have to win games and Leeds and Rotherham this week gives Rovers the perfect chance to start doing that.

They are six-pointers, even at this early stage of the season, and we must be looking to get at least four points on the board and start the climb up the table.