Rovers can seal promotion at Doncaster Rovers tonight, eight months on from when defeat to the same opponents provided one of the low points of the season.

There were chants of ‘you’re not fit to wear the shirt’ from the Ewood crowd as Rovers began life in League One with back-to-back defeats as Doncaster left East Lancashire with a 3-1 win following Rovers’ loss at Southend on the opening weekend.

In the following 41 matches they have lost three times, and once in 32, putting on the verge of an immediate return to the Championship.

A win would guarantee promotion for Rovers at the Keepmoat Stadium, though they just need to match the result of Shrewsbury Town, who host Peterborough United, to complete the job with two games to spare.

Mowbray always had faith Rovers would come good, despite their stuttering start, and said: “Whatever league you’re in is difficult. Generally you have had to cut your cloth for the league you’re in.

“We did lose some substantial players, apart from Danny Graham we lost the whole forward line from the team which finished last season.

“We lost the whole central midfield, lost 12 players, some were important and some peripheral but there was a lot of turnover.

“We talked long and hard earlier in the season about players living in hotels, moving house, finding schools for their kids and having a lot of things going on in their lives.

“Ultimately I believe that once the league settled down and we got acclimatised and we got those international breaks out of the way, the team have shown their true colours.

“The camaraderie and belief in each other has shone through. We have gone on a couple of unbelievable runs, it’s been a strong final two thirds of the season and we have to make sure we finish it off because it’s not done yet.

“We are thinking of the challenge and the next opportunity to get three points.”

Doncaster are in the safety of mid-table but Mowbray is wary of the threat the hosts will pose as Rovers go in search of promotion.

He added: “In our way is a talented Doncaster Rovers, a team who we have watched play an attacking brand of football as Darren’s team always do.

“We want to try and overturn the 3-1 earlier in the season and have that pride that we don’t want any team to do the double over us this year.

“Let’s look forward to the game, enjoy the atmosphere around the game and see if we can get the job done.”

On the feeling in the camp, Mowbray added: “The mood is good, but it has always been good.

“That is down to the quality of human beings in the dressing room.

“Three games to go, we need to get a win.

“We take each game as it comes and confidence from the resilience of this group to not losing football matches.”