Harry Chapman’s challenge is to stay in the first-team picture when injured players start to return, according to Tony Mowbray.

Chapman has featured off the bench in the last two matches, his first Championship minutes since the final two games of last season, with Rovers stretched for numbers.

Injuries to Bradley Dack and Lewis Holtby have given the 22-year-old, a regular for the Under-23s so far this season, an opportunity to have an impact on the senior side where he has been sent on as Rovers trailed in their back-to-back defeats to Huddersfield and Nottingham Forest.

He will likely keep his place for tomorrow’s FA Cup tie at Birmingham City to try and force himself back in to Mowbray’s plans longer-term.

“I think initially it’s because of the numbers we’ve got but it’s an opportunity for him to try and do enough to make sure that as people come back he stays on the bench,” Mowbray told the Lancashire Telegraph.

“It’s down to him really. I thought he did alright. We need end product from our wide players.”

Mowbray had previously challenged Chapman to improve his workrate in training to work his way back in to the fold, having turned down loan interest for the winger in August.

Joe Rothwell started three of Rovers’ four games over the festive period, but remains without a Championship goal in 23 appearances this season.

The 24-year-old has been given an extended run, but Mowbray wants to see more end product from the former Manchester United youngster if he is to keep his place in the side.

Adam Armstrong took his tally to six with his penalty against Birmingham City on Boxing Day, four short of top scorer Dack. And Mowbray says there’s a collective responsibility among those given a chance in the wide areas to score goals and create chances.

He added: “It’s something I speak to Joe Rothwell long and hard about.

“It’s no good him skipping past people across the pitch if there’s never a goal, never a shot, never a cross, he needs an end product.

“I’ve been showing him an example of (Bryan) Mbeumo at Brentford, 10 goals and five assists.

“Joe has no goals and no assists.

“I understand the frustration of footballers but I feel frustrated. They need end product. Harry Chapman, like Joe Rothwell, end product.

“They have to put in a cross that someone heads in, run at his man and cut it back for someone to put in the net.

“Football is about end product at the top end of the pitch.

“However good you look, you need to put the stats on the paper, goals, assists, chances created, shots at goal, that’s what we need to see from our attacking players.”