Tony Mowbray isn’t ready to rip things up and start again on the basis of one disappointing defeat.

Rovers travel to Wigan tonight looking to respond to a 4-1 defeat at Preston on Saturday.

They will be forced in to at least one change, with Elliott Bennett suspended, but Mowbray isn’t ready to wield the axe after just a fourth loss of the season.

“I have to be careful about not making wholesale changes to things because of one bad performance,” the boss explained.

“There will be other bad performances and defeats along the way so you can’t keep changing everything, you have to keep some consistency about everything you do.

“There will be some changes I would suggest, but it won’t be an unrecognisable team.

“I trust them all now to the point now to the point of what we need to do, when we need to do it and how we’re going to play.

“For 20 months we have a set of principles we work to every day and the players believe in it because we’ve been pretty successful.

“We’ve won a lot of games, and not had many defeats, so why wouldn’t we follow that pathway? Whatever the team is, we’ll go and be competitive.”

Wigan were promoted alongside Rovers last season, the Latics winning the League One title by one point.

Rovers have enjoyed the better start to life in the Championship, but the Latics are particularly strong at home, with five wins and just one defeat from their nine home matches.

But having been beaten to the title by Paul Cook’s side, Mowbray is eager to see how far his side have come in their first meeting back in the second tier.

He added: “It’s a tough game. At home, bar three, they have picked up every point they have got at home.

“They are strong at home, we know that, and it’s a tough fixture for us. But they are all tough.

“We know it’s a tough ask, but it’s one we should look forward to testing ourselves and seeing how far we’ve come or they have come this season.”

The two sides drew 0-0 at the DW Stadium in October 2017 before Rovers let a two goal lead slip at Ewood Park in March as the game ended 2-2.

That proved to be a turning point in the race for the title, and the boss said: “The home game was a frustration for us, a really soft equaliser, a free kick from out wide that we didn’t defend well at the near post.

“We felt that we should have won it and if we had, and everything else went the same, then we’d have finished a point above them.

“But I do feel the best two teams last year got out of the division and we’re both trying to develop and develop and sustain a competitive edge in this division.”