Tony Mowbray will have his eye on a run of three league games in the space of a week to help maintain Rovers’ high intensity levels.

Rovers travel to Derby County tomorrow night before a trip to Stoke City on Saturday in a tough run of September fixtures.

Mowbray will contemplate changes for the Pride Park visit, helped by a near fully-fit squad.

The boss has used 20 players so far this season, the fourth fewest in the division, with 16 involved from the start.

However, Mowbray is keen to push those numbers up as he starts to integrate his new recruits in to the side.

“It’s a three game week so we will have to look at the team, see whether we need to make changes.” Mowbray said.

“We will look at the opposition, their strengths and weaknesses, and pick a team we feel will give them as many problems as we can muster.

“A little bit - looking towards the game at the weekend as well.

“We always look at games in blocks but conscious the next game is the most important.

“Experience would tell you, particularly the way we’re asking the team to play, it can be difficult to reproduce at the intensity levels we’re trying to be play at so we need to be mindful.

“That’s why I’ve said the signings at some stage we have to trust more than just 11 players, we have to be able to trust 16, 17, 18 if we can so when we make changes nothing gets weaker and feels any different.”

One of Rovers’ main strengths this season has been their athleticism and a keenness to win the ball high in the opposition half.

They face a Derby side who like to play the ball out from the back, and when asked if that could play in to their hands, Mowbray said: “I wouldn’t sit here and give you our tactics about going to Derby!”

“But we have to be respectful that they have some very important players, a coach who wants to play in his way and stamp his imprint on a football club.

“They have won four games this season and we will look to go there and impose our style on them but be mindful of their talent and they have players who can hurt us.

“It’s a game we should be looking forward to, like Aston Villa, that we can test ourselves against talented players and let’s go and be positive, believe in ourselves, ask questions of them but be mindful of their strengths.

“Hopefully we can have a game-plan and go there and hurt them.”

Kasey Palmer could be recalled to the starting XI against his former club in a move which would see Adam Armstrong employed in attack, as he was in the away victory at Hull City last month.

Derrick Williams will also hope to make his first appearance since the opening day after overcoming a foot injury.