MARK Hughes today urged his Blackburn players to transform Ewood into a fortress as he seeks to make the home improvements necessary to fire Rovers up the Premier League table.

After Rovers won their first away game in seven months at Fulham last week, now Hughes wants to address his side's poor home form.

Rovers have only won FIVE of their last 26 Premiership games at Ewood and Hughes is well aware of the need to improve that record sooner rather than later, particularly as three of the next four games are at home.

"We need to start winning our home games," said Hughes, who is hoping to plot the downfall of Tottenham tomorrow.

"In recent times, we've given our fans a lot of entertainment but not the results they would want.

"There never seems to be a dull day at Ewood at the moment but I would happily take a scrappy 1-0 win right now.

"I don't think we're far away but defensively we need to keep performing like we did at Fulham last week.

"We need to have that solid defensive base from which to build a performance and then we can start to give the fans something to cheer."

Rovers go into tomorrow's game in confident mood and on the back of a five game unbeaten run.

Last week's impressive 2-0 win at Fulham was the club's first victory in nine in the Premiership - and the second under Hughes since he took charge of team affairs in September.

The key to that triumph was a greatly improved defensive display and Hughes is calling for similar resolve from his players tomorrow.

"We've got to look to build on the result and performance of last week," said the Rovers boss.

Hughes is likely to stick with the same starting 11 that performed so admirably at Craven Cottage but Jay Bothroyd may return on the bench as Jon Stead is still struggling with an ankle injury.

Bothroyd has missed the last three games through suspension as a result of his sending off against Norwich but the striker has served his time and Hughes is ready to draw a line under the whole episode.

"All I've said to Jay is I don't mind players showing anger and frustration at the way they've played or with things that happen in games that they could have done better with," said the Rovers boss.

"But when you do that you have to make sure it doesn't hurt you as a player or your team-mates.

"That's the thing I've emphasised to him. He's had a harsh lesson but he's a good kid who wants to learn and he's trying to eradicate that from his game."

Spurs, meanwhile, are anything but confident going into the game following a dismal run of results.

Martin Jol's side crashed out of the Carling Cup on penalties to Liverpool in midweek and they've lost six of their last seven games in the Premiership.

On top of that, the Londoners also boast a dreadful away record.

No Premiership team has scored fewer goals on the road this season than Spurs, who have lost their last three away matches without scoring.