TONY Mowbray is targeting ‘evolution not revolution’ at Rovers after a solid start to life back in the Championship.

Rovers are in the middle of a third international break of the season and sit ninth in the table, with 26 points from their 17 games.

Mowbray has talked of ‘building a club’ and taking two or three more transfer windows to shape his squad in to one capable of expecting to challenge at the top end of the division.

Seven players arrived in the summer, with only Jack Rodwell older than 23, with the boss admitting work for the January transfer window is already underway to help the club keep progressing.

“I have talked about the evolution of this club, not revolution, by each transfer window try and improve and get better players,” the boss explained.

“Whether it’s faster, stronger, better technical footballers, that’s what the plan is.

“The recruitment plan is on overdrive at the moment, watching players, and trying to find where the next additions are going to be.

“We have to look hard to find them, they don’t just pop up out of the ground.

“The work is going on behind the scenes to make sure we can develop and grow so the days we play Leeds United in the future we expect to win, not just give them a good game and see how it gets to.

“That’s the expectation we have to get to, to expect to be in the top six because we’ve spent a lot of money on some good players and that’s where you want to be.

“Like last year, there was a pressure to go and win because we had a good team with good players.

“You’d rather have that pressure than no good players and a team that’s struggling for its life and you have to come in to press conferences and say ‘how do you expect us to beat them, they have better, more expensive players, a bigger squad?’

“It’s difficult because in the end people get bored of listening.”

Rovers have lost just three of their opening 17 league matches, and just seven of their previous 63.

But in an increasingly competitive and unpredictable Championship, Mowbray knows that defeats are never far away.

And that is why he isn’t getting carried away despite his side being just two points shy of Rovers’ best tally at this stage of a Championship season since relegation from the Premier League in the 2011/12 campaign.

“We’re going to have some tough days,” he added.

“Days like going away to Bristol City and Swansea City and losing they do happen, you might not see them coming but they do happen.

“Teams have real quality and as soon as a game doesn’t go your way and you go chasing it then teams can really, really punish you.

“Let’s remain humble about what we do, keep working hard, try and enjoy each fixture, not too disappointed if a defeat comes our way or too carried away if we win a game.

“Let’s enjoy the challenge.”