TONY Mowbray was pleased that his side did their job as they took their fate until the final day, but questioned the selection policy of Huddersfield Town.

Rovers beat Aston Villa 1-0 at Ewood Park, but despite moving level on points with Nottingham Forest who lost at QPR, they remain in the bottom three on goal difference.

Fellow relegation rivals Birmingham City took advantage of 10 changes made by Huddersfield Town, as although playing more than three quarters of the game with 10 men, the Blues beat the promotion-chasers 2-0.

That means they have a two point gap over the bottom three going in to the final round of fixtures.

And when asked what he made of the Terriers team selection, Mowbray said: “Brucey (Aston Villa boss Steve Bruce) told me to be honest.

“I think, trying to be diplomatic on it, they have to look after their own club.

“They (Huddersfield) have a foreign coach (David Wagner) who has obviously done a fantastic job, turned that club around to a top six team and yet, I don’t know whether there are integrity issues with the league.

“As a coach you have to look after your own team.

“I find it unusual that you would make so many changes a few weeks away from the first play-off game, but if he feels that they need to rest and then put them all back in for the first play-off game.

“Do I fully understand it? I wouldn’t have done that as I would have been conscious of people asking questions and you know which players need a rest, which are carrying a little knock, some of them are so robust they can play a game every day.

“For me, it was about us doing the job, not Huddersfield’s changes against Birmingham.

“Birmingham did what they had to do, having 10 men after 23 minutes, it’s unusual to win 2-0, with no disrespect to Birmingham, with 10 men against a top six team.

“That suggests the 10 changes made a significant impact but hopefully that’s not me sat here bleating about it because the most important thing was we won our game and we managed to do that.”

Danny Graham’s 13th goal of the season 10 minutes in to the second half gave Rovers the victory, as they held on for a third clean sheet in four games.

And Mowbray said: “We go to the last day – that’s what we were looking to do.

“On paper it was a tough game, Aston Villa are a good team and we knew that they would be bringing a huge support.

“The last couple of home games have been slightly nervous for us, but I thought we started well, on the front foot, played a lot of the first half in their half and asked lots of questions of them.

“I think they stuck to the game-plan.

“We targeted Neil Taylor down that side with Sam (Gallagher), hit a lot of diagonals down that side of the pitch, played off that and ultimately, while we didn’t get a goal through that, it built up a momentum that we took in to the second half and after getting the goal we saw the game out.”