Tony Mowbray knows that in time his team will have a different look, but for now he’s willing to put his trust in Rovers’ promotion winners.

Kasey Palmer is the only one of Rovers’ four summer signings to start a league game so far, and although more new faces featured against Carlisle in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday, Mowbray is set to revert back to the tried and trusted at Hull City tomorrow.

Rovers are keen to make new signings before the loan window closes on August 31, but Mowbray says they will need time to acclimatise to his way of working.

And the boss believes maintaining the trust in last season’s squad can have benefits.

He said: “That’s why there have not been huge changes in the game that we’ve played because they have an understanding of the principles of how we play and what we do when the ball is in certain areas.

“The other night (at Carlisle), it was a gamble because there were some players who are not integrated in to that.

“We haven’t had the time to do the work individually. The boys that have been doing that for a year and a half with us understand the jobs they’ve been given and what they’re being asked to do.

“As you throw new people in you experiment a little bit and it can be frustrating watching it at times, yet we scored five goals.

“Some of the individual goals were quite brilliant, not just the technique of the finishes but the passes to get them in to the positions, some really good attacking play.

“We have to keep adding to that, working at it every day, and keep working with the new ones, showing them on the videos which have become part of our routine now and making sure the penny drops.”

Hull were beaten by Aston Villa in their first home game before earning a point at Sheffield Wednesday.

Rovers have two points from their opening two games, and assessing the Tigers’ start, Mowbray said: “It suggests to me that playing at home they will be desperate to get three points to get their season up and running.

“What do I expect? Another tough game. We faced them in the FA Cup last year and they showed their quality, albeit a different team.

“They have lost some of their Chelsea loanees, but they have some good players.

“Away from home in the Championship they are all tough games but we will try and impose our game, our style of play on them and see if we can get a positive result.

“It’s a lovely stadium, a modern-day stadium, and we have to go there and try and put a performance on.

“I’m sure we’ll have a healthy following on the road again, supportive of the team, and we have to try and make it a good day.”

On his team selection, the boss added: “I mainly pick teams through analysing the opposition and seeing where their strengths and weaknesses are and how we combat them and try and play a strength of ours against a potential weakness of the opposition.

“The team doesn’t just pick itself, there’s some thought behind what type of player we play.

“We’ve spoken about the left-back situation, some games when we’re playing against a really, fast and strong winger Derrick Williams will be part of a solid defensive unit to do the job and stop crosses coming in, win some headers and be strong defensively.

“On other days when there’s a possible weakness down one side, then Amari’i can play almost like a winger.

“That should be the case moving forward in a number of areas.”