God forbid anyone connected with Rovers, staff and fans alike, sees Saturday’s match as already won.

Two very professional displays should, by rights, lead to a third. All currently seems rosy in the garden and even the most curmudgeonly pundit would not put their head on the block by lumping £50 on Luton to win. 

Yet, just like the television channel ‘Dave’ we’ve seen it all before. 

This is a huge game for Rovers as a win would make a statement of intent. Five wins and a draw from the last seven games would mark out a side who are contesting the promotion race.

Of course it is too early to be thinking of next May, but, when winning becomes a habit, confidence follows and so does momentum. 

The imminent signing of Lewis Holtby kept us refreshing pages on the internet for a good while and his eventual capture revealed something of a performer. What could prove the difference between Mowbray’s signing of experienced players and previous Rovers managers’ errors is that TM takes the character of the player into account. 

The exception that proves the rule was Peter Whittingham but as they say; fool me once and shame on you, fool me twice and shame on me. 

It has been long clear that the manager is not intent on a ‘boom and bust’ attempt at finishing high enough to get another season in management and is looking long-term. 

I see the eventual ‘phasing-out’ of Mowbray leading to a Damien Johnson-managed side in a year or two with some kind of overlap, but on viewing the current big picture I can’t see any reason to remove Mowbray from the club for the foreseeable future, even for that flabby reason some give that “he’s taken us as far as he can.”

I think we would all agree that the boss is an honourable man and that if he thought he had nothing further to offer then he would leave.

As I see it, he is not yet three years into a long-term project to keep us stable AND reinstate ourselves as a formidable team.