While Rovers may have gone 'back to basics' in a bid to get their first league win of the season on Saturday, off the field they are moving the times in a bid to improve in all areas.

Damien Johnson was promoted to the first team coaching set-up from the Under-23s to help deliver one-to-one sessions with players in the newly-established analysis rooms at Brockhall.

Players are shown individual clips of matches, and training, with Tony Mowbray also using the technology, similar to that used on Sky Sports, to demonstrate strengths and weaknesses of the opposition in team meetings.

It is something Mowbray feels the players are buying in to, but as ever, knows results will be what they are judged on.

“At this club we’re trying to develop a learning culture,” he said.

“We’ve invested in the summer on infrastructure within the training ground, we’ve got new analysis booths with touch-screen TVs where you can draw shaded areas, highlight players, put arrows in, and the players are going in there most afternoons with a member of stuff and going through and talking about their individual clips, what they could have done better, what they did well.

“It’s just about developing a learning culture. That’s okay, but we have to find a way to win games as I’ve said.

“Sometimes you need to go back to basics to win games and as confidence and belief grows, and I want this team to have a belief and burning desire to get in to the top six, after consolidation last year, and yet we’re playing in a league with a lot of big teams.

“Some teams have £40m parachute payments, others with £20m second parachute payments and some with maybe a third year payment, so some teams have that money before we even start.

“There are some difficult opponents in this league, competing to get in to that top six, but as I’ve talked before, togetherness, team spirit, camaraderie, a unity in the group can enable you to punch above your weight and that’s what we’re going to try to do.

“Let’s see how the season goes, it’s very early on, but we’re up and running, we have points on the board and we’re looking forward to getting in to the body of the season. Once you get past 10 or 12 games and then you’re in to the meat of the season and you’re playing two or three games a week and then we’ll see the strength of our squad then.”

A student of the game who is open to new methods, Mowbray is in to his 15th year of management, and third at Rovers.

The investment in technology came about after meetings with the club's owners in India this summer, with Mowbray believing it can play a key role in the club's pursuit to close the gap to the top six.

A new relaxation area has been created for the players, with afternoon sessions introduced to give players the chance to study their game in more detail and make the most of the technology.

“I’ve been a manager for 15 years and I think it’s important you move with the times," he explained.

“If the technology is there and you can afford it and me in particular can ask the owners for some help to give us the best possible chance then I think we should utilise that.

“We’ve promoted Damien Johnson as a technical coach to help with all of those development plans with the players and the players have to buy in to it.

“I want them to buy in to it so they can improve and get better. I want them to be asking to see their clips from the weekend and go through them.

“The players in the team, the players out of the team, we record every training session these days, so we can look at training if they’re not in the starting XI of what they’re doing.

“It’s just so everyone has a chance to discuss their game and to try and improve.”

While Johnson's role is focused on the technical side of the game, Mowbray says both he and assistant Mark Venus have been accustomed to using the software.

“Damien and Veno work with some players. We had a team meeting to talk about Hull and I am highlighting players, drawing arrows and showing things," he explained.

“We’ve had it a few weeks now, so early evenings you’re sat there practising, which buttons to press.

“Now I would like to think I can do it, and the other staff have done those sort of procedures.

“I think the players like to see it. To sit there in a booth watching the clips, watching the game, talking to coaches about what runs you’ve made, just discussing football really.

“We’re all involved, the players are buying to it because it benefits them.

“If we can get to the Premier League in the next year or two then it will benefits their lives, their careers and their financial power. I don’t see why anyone wouldn’t want to try and improve.”