BLACKBURN Rovers fans’ favourite David Dunn is desperate to get his season up and running.

Dunn is set to return after the international break after recovering from the knee injury that has ruled him out of Rovers’ last six matches.

Before the setback the veteran midfielder, who is unlikely to be deemed fit enough to face Huddersfield Town at Ewood Park today (3pm), was restricted to just one start and two cameo appearances.

“I’d got myself in good nick about 10 days ago, came back training and felt really good,” said Dunn, who penned a new one-year deal with Rovers in the summer.

“But then I had a little relapse so I’ve just taken my time to make sure everything has cleared up properly.

“But I’ve been working hard with the fitness guys, I’m back in full training and I’m ready for getting back involved hopefully.

“And I want to get back involved – I’m no different to any other player.

“I want to be playing every week – there’d be something wrong if I didn’t and I was just happy to sit there and not play.

“But it’s important to keep yourself right, you have to be patient, and hopefully when you get a chance you take it and put the pressure on the lads who are playing.

“Obviously this setback with my injury hasn’t done me any favours in getting in but hopefully I can stay injury free now and push on.”

Push on is also what Rovers will be hoping to do after an inconsistent start to the campaign.

The midweek defeat at Rotherham United meant they slipped to 11th in the standings going into today’s Roses clash with Huddersfield.

But Dunn, a star member of the last Rovers squad to win promotion to the Premier League back in 2001, insists there is no point dwelling on what happened at the New York Stadium.

“There’s times this season when we’ve felt we’ve played well and not got results and there have been times this season when collectively we could have played better,” said the former England international, who scored four goals and made a further six in 24 games last season.

“But this league is a really competitive and tough league and sometimes you can come off the pitch thinking ‘how have we not picked up something there’.

“It’s well documented that this is the toughest league to get out of.

“We haven’t got to get too het up by the result the other day, of course everyone will be disappointed by it, but it’s important to brush yourself down and try and put it right.

“There’s that many games in this league that you can’t feel sorry for yourself too much.

“Hopefully we’ll go and get a positive result against Huddersfield.”

Paul Robinson, Tommy Spurr, Alex Baptiste, Jason Lowe and Chris Brown, as well as the suspended Corry Evans, will play no part against the Terriers today.

But Rovers boss Gary Bowyer will give Tom Cairney and Rudy Gestede every opportunity to prove their fitness.