Barry Douglas was taken off for ‘footballing reasons’ in the draw at Brentford and will be available for Rovers’ game at Bristol City tomorrow.

Douglas missed the win over Millwall with a muscle injury, having come off early on in the win against Barnsley, while the Leeds United loanee didn’t emerge for the second half at Brentford.

The left back was on a yellow card, and with Amari’i Bell on the bench and Rovers already down to 10 men, the Rovers boss didn’t feel it was worth taking a risk with Douglas who was holding his side in the latter stages of the first half.

Declaring him available for tomorrow night, Mowbray said: “Barry was stretching a lot through the game but he had just been booked, we’d just gone down to 10 men, we had Amari’i Bell on the bench and I didn’t want to risk playing with nine men with an official who was making some strange decisions.

“I decided to take him off for football reasons rather than injury reasons.

“Barry will be in contention, he’ll be getting on the bus to travel with us.”

Derrick Williams has missed the last six matches with a quadricep injury but has returned to training in the last week.

The defender will train again today before a decision is made on whether he travels to face his former club tomorrow night.

The likelihood of him being needed will depend on the outcome of Rovers’ appeal against the red card shown to Darragh Lenihan at the weekend.

And Mowbray added: “We’re going to train this morning and we’ll see.

“He’s at the point where he’s back out on the grass but hasn’t done much training.

“My plan will be to put him on the grass, have a look, see what he thinks, have a chat with him and where he feels his body is.

“I can’t sit here and say he’ll be fine or not, but he has got his boots on and we’ll see how he is after training.”

Lenihan was shown a straight red card by referee Oliver Langford, despite already been on a yellow card, when he was adjudged to have fouled Ivan Toney in the box.

The club expect to learn the outcome of the appeal later today as they hope to have Lenihan available for the trip to Bristol City, otherwise he will serve a one match ban.

“I stood and watched it, I said after the game about my frustration with the official,” Mowbray explained.

“Just the understanding of what is a foul and what isn’t a foul and when a player who is buying a foul.

“Hopefully the people who look at the footage will be football people and they’ll see what it was.

“If they say they’re going to support the referee then that’s fine, that’s not an issue. I know what I saw and I’ve seen it so many times back from three or four different angles, to know it’s someone taking advantage of a situation, two people putting their arms across each other going for the same ball, one collapsing his legs underneath him and the referee decided to give a penalty.”