Darragh Lenihan could hand manager Tony Mowbray a boost ahead of tomorrow’s game with Coventry City.

Lenihan has missed the last two matches with a rib injury, but after taking painkilling injections, trained with the squad on Friday and the Rovers boss says the Irishman has ‘half a chance’ of featuring against the Sky Blues.

It would be a big boost to Rovers who have won just three of the 21 matches the 27-year-old has missed since the start of the 2018/19 season.

Mowbray felt there was a ‘nervousness’ to Rovers’ defending in the midweek defeat to Watford as loanees Taylor Harwood-Bellis and Jarrad Branthwaite partnered each other for the second successive match.

Tom Trybull has also returned to training after missing recent weeks with a back spasm, but Mowbray is unsure about whether the Norwich City loanee is fit enough to feature.

“Lenihan trained today, I don’t know how he is afterwards, if there’s no reaction then he’s got half a chance, we’ll wait and see,” Mowbray said.

“He’s been taking pain injections and we’ll see how he feels.

“Trybull has been out for four or five weeks and has one day’s training so I’ll have a chat with him and see what we think as to whether we put another young lad on the bench as we did in midweek or whether he can be on the bench and possibly affect the game.”

Rovers remain without a host of central midfielders, with Bradley Johnson, Lewis Holtby and now Jacob Davenport absent through injury.

On Davenport, Mowbray said: “It will be a more than a month, hopefully less than two months, let’s wait and see.

“Jacob is a lad who, if anything, I got upset with him for getting injured but it’s not his fault he got injured, but I just feel so disappointed for him.

“He’s a lad who’s desperate to be a footballer, desperate to show everyone how good he can be, but his body keeps letting him down a little bit.

“I’m upset for Jacob because he was just starting to break in and show everyone that he has a lovely left foot, he’s mobile, he puts his foot in, competes, he can do a bit of everything that you want.

“On a day when you want attritional footballers he  can do that and put his foot in, on the days you want to keep it he can slide it through the lines, he’s a good footballer.

“Sadly he’s never had much of a chance in his time here, never really had much of a consistent chance to show everyone that.”