TONY Mowbray wants Rovers to take advantage of their run of games at Ewood Park and dispel any early season jitters in front of their own fans.

Rovers have lost two of their opening three League One fixtures, something they will be looking to address when they host Rotherham United this evening (7.45pm).

They face the Millers tonight, and Gillingham on Saturday, and the postponement of the away game at Blackpool which was scheduled for October 7 means Rovers will play four of their next five league games at home, and six of the upcoming eight.

Rovers are already a game behind all but one of the sides in League One, though Mowbray isn’t attaching any more importance to this week’s home double header ahead of their latest international break.

“Every game is important,” the Rovers boss said. “We have a great opportunity over the next month or so, we have four out of our next five games at home and we have to try and take advantage of it.

“At home, on the evidence of this season, and recent seasons, winning has been a problem.

“We have to try and buck that trend, it’s not easy, there is an expectation on the players.

“If it’s not going well it can become heavy and confidence can get knocked, but that’s when you see the characters and when the bigger characters have to come to the fore, keep driving on and trying to put the ball in the box, get in the box, ask questions, rather than the weaker personalities who don’t get on the ball enough.

“I think we will be all right at home, but one thing we will need to be is more clinical.

“At this moment I don’t see a situation with our home form, I know that it is frustrating to have lost two early on but I’m pretty sure that as the season unfolds we will be pretty strong at home.”

Rovers will be without the services of Craig Conway for a fifth league game this season as the winger misses out with a hip injury sustained in the last home game.

And Mowbray added: “We miss his drive, his energy and his nowse really, knowing where to be and when.

“He is a motivational miss as well, yet we will find as we move forward that (Ben) Gladwin and (Harry) Chapman can play there, (Marcus) Antonsson and (Dominic) Samuel can play out there if we go with three strikers, (Elliott) Bennett has played a lot of football and will need to sit on the bench and watch for a week or two.

“A little injury is as good as a rest, but when he’s not in the team I think it lacks a little bit of the drive he brings.”