AT some stage Jordan Rhodes is going to get his opportunity to play in the Premier League – and hopefully it’s with Blackburn.

His goalscoring record is absolutely outstanding, there’s no question about that, but he’s never scored at the highest level, in the big league.

You’ve got to look at strikers that way. If they’ve never played and scored in the top league they’ve set a level.

Jordan hasn’t had the chance to prove he can do that yet, but if he continues at the rate he’s going, he will get that chance.

He’s working hard on other sides of his game, and that will only help him, but it’s all about the amount of goals he scores.

I like to think I know the game and when you watch players you can understand them and get them down to a tee.

With Jordan I’ve said for a long time he needs three chances. He can score with his first touch and then he’ll have two chances that he won’t take.

He’s got to try and improve on that ratio but there have been some top players in England, like Andrew Cole, who played for Blackburn, who got labelled with the same thing.

But like Cole, as long as you keep the chances coming, Jordan will always scores goals, and that was the case again at Hull on Saturday.

I felt it was always going to be a difficult game for Blackburn if they went behind so they did well to get what was a good point.

If you can get a draw away from home in this league, then it’s fantastic, and if you can get a victory, then it’s superb.

But you’ve got to be winning your home games and that point at Hull will only be a good one if they follow it up by beating Ipswich at Ewood on Saturday.

Ipswich are a good side, like Hull are, but I’ve watched three or four of the top Championship sides Blackburn are due to play and, I’ll say it until I’m blue in the face, if Blackburn have go at teams they will beat teams.

But if they sit back and try and counter-attack, then they will lose goals, and if you lose goals, you’re always having to fight back, it’s very difficult and tiring on the players, and it’ll be a long, hard season.

It’s all about getting the attack and the defence right, and getting that consistency, and if they get that, I’m sure they’ll win more than they lose.

Jordan’s injury-time goal at Hull will have felt like a winner. It will have boosted the lads’ morale and confidence and hopefully they will take that into the Ipswich game and get the three points.