'Positive feel around Rovers' - Hedges

Blackburn wing-back Ryan Hedges has spoken of the positivity around Ewood Park as Rovers go in search of a fourth straight Championship win.

Derby County are the visitors on Saturday (12:30 GMT) with the Rams having won four straight themselves under John Eustace, who controversially left Rovers to move to Pride Park in February.

After a five-match winless run, Blackburn's 1-0 victory at Bristol City on Tuesday followed a 2-0 success at Leicester and a first home win of the campaign the previous week to lift Valerien Ismael's side seven points clear of the relegation zone and within seven of the play-offs, with a game in hand.

"To get three on the bounce is really positive," Hedges, 30, told BBC Radio Lancashire. "I don't think heads dropped too much, the performances were there, we just weren't picking up the results, but it's a good place to be at the moment.

"Two clean sheets away from home show we have defensive capabilities and we have firepower at the top end of the pitch as well.

"We've lost key players over the summer, new players coming in take time to adapt to a new team, country and league but they've done well, everyone has played their part and you can see that coming to fruition."

Ahead of the reunion with his former boss, Wales international Hedges said he enjoyed working under Eustace at Ewood Park and added: "I think we were really unlucky with what happened (but) he made his decision, I felt we were in a good place at the time when he left."

Following the Rams encounter on Saturday, Rovers will mark the club's 150th anniversary with a Legends match against an Old Etonians XI, rekindling a rivalry born in the 1880s.

"It's a massive week for the club, it's up to us to put on a performance on the pitch first," said Hedges.

"There have been some superstars through the doors down the years and not many clubs can say they have won the Premier League - hopefully this team can have their own legacy and write their name in the history books."