by Adam Stubbings

It's another 'cup final', the latest 'most important game of our season', but all hope may well fade away if Rovers can't finally find a way to win a game of football when they host Peterborough this weekend.

When these two sides met at London Road back in October, they were going in very different directions. Rovers, struggling at the foot of the table thanks to a bad start to the campaign under Paul Dickov, had traded one Scotsman for another and brought in Darren Ferguson, a man who made his managerial name at Peterborough.

However, returning to his old stomping ground in only his second game as Rovers boss proved a miserable one. The players struggled to get to grips with the newly implemented 3-5-2 formation and the Posh ripped us apart, winning 4-0 in a game they could easily have scored double figures in. Graham Westley's side were on a superb upturn in form after changing the manager early in the season themselves, and they occupied a play off position as recently as the new year.

It has all gone wrong for them since though, much in the same manner as it has for Rovers. The two sides are together at the bottom of the League One form table, meaning this match has to be seen as one of the most winnable of the remaining ten for a desperate Rovers team.

Peterborough have lost six of their last seven and have slid into the lower reaches of the table, but Rovers went a twelfth game without victory when they lost 2-1 at Bradford last time out. It was by all accounts another poor performance, but a small ray of hope came late on when Nathan Tyson netted, an achievement in itself for the side at present. If the players can build on this and take a modicum of confidence forward, it may translate into improved performances and results, which are sorely needed now.

A win for Oldham in midweek put Rovers on the very brink of falling into the bottom four, and Rovers loanee Curtis Main has had his part to play for our rivals lately. Main has been asked to return to the club but it is now down to the forward himself whether he wishes to or not. If he refuses and goes on to help his new club survive at our expense, it will make Ferguson and the club look very silly indeed.