Mowbray acknowledges he still needs to add to his forward line despite re-signing Danny Graham and Craig Conway this week.

The experienced duo put pen to paper on new one year deals, with the option for a further 12 months, in Rovers’ first pieces of businesses this summer.

The club are still waiting to make their first addition to the squad and will need to replace the attacking quartet of loan players who have departed.

Adam Armstrong, Marcus Antonsson, Harry Chapman and Jack Payne shared 19 goals between them last season, the number which Graham and Conway provided between them.

Bradley Dack and Charlie Mulgrew scored 18 and 14 times respectively last season and Mowbray believes the goals could well be shared around again.

“We’re aware that every team has to score goals,” he said. “Last year we had to score 80 odd goals to get promoted and we have to look at our group and think ‘who is going to score the goals next year?’.

“We have re-signed Danny, Bradley has to come to the party again and score, is Charlie going to score double figures next year? That’s a big ask in the Championship but you would hope he can come up with a few.

“If you think Antonsson and Armstrong have gone back at the end of their loans then there’s a few goals that have been taken out of the team there.

“We’re conscious of attacking players and adding goal scorers to the group.

“Supporters always want to see what strikers you sign, where you’re going to get the creativity and we’re working hard on that.”

Deals for attacking players are notoriously more difficult, and expensive. Rovers are keen on Ewood returns for both Armstrong and Chapman if the deals with their current clubs, Newcastle and Middlesbrough, make financial sense.

With Graham on board, Rovers will still look to add to their forward line which currently includes Dominic Samuel and Joe Nuttall.

Wide players are also on the agenda, despite Conway re-signing, and Mowbray will be looking for all of his forwards to chip in with goals next term.

He added: “Those negotiations and deals are always difficult, we have players in mind that we would like to bring to the football club but they are difficult.

“I sit here confident that we will be fine, get it done, and if it’s not a one-type centre forward that everyone goes ‘wow, there’s the centre forward’, we might sign four or five attack minded players that you would hope can all add eight to 10 goals like we did last year with the wide attackers who came and scored goals for us.

“It’s hard to go and buy Alan Shearer for £15m these days.

“We’re not really in that market place to go and spend big on a centre forward, but I think the way the modern game is going I’m happy to have four or five players who can score double figures for us and have to compete with each other to get in the team either down the middle or a wide striker.

“We’re working hard to fill those positions and have enough attacking threats in the team and by kick-off time the team will have enough players striving to be on the pitch and scoring the goals.”