Rovers hope to add three senior players to their squad for the visit to Bournemouth.

Thomas Kaminski, Daniel Ayala and Sam Gallagher could all be welcomed back from injury after their recent absences.

Aynsley Pears kept a clean sheet on his first Championship start in over a year when deputising for Kaminski who picked up a minor stomach muscle strain in the win at Stoke City.

Ayala has missed 1-0 wins against the Potters and Preston North End with a twisted ankle, but did go through some running drills with the medical team on Saturday.

Gallagher’s injury has been the longest, missing five matches with a calf problem, but the attacker is now back in training ahead of the trip to face the second-placed Cherries.

“I think he’s got a chance,” Mowbray said of his No.1 goalkeeper Kaminski.

“He’s pretty positive in his mindset and that he’ll be ready for next week which is a positive for us.”

It was only a fourth league start in Rovers colours for Pears but he helped the side to a second successive 1-0 victory as they held out for three points against Preston North End.

His main contribution was a smart first half save to deny Ched Evans having been well protected by those infront of him.

But having seen so little action since arriving from Middlesbrough last summer, Mowbray was pleased with the contribution of the 23-year-old.

“While he wasn’t asked to do that much, he did what he had to do which is what you ask,” the manager said.

“He’s had to wait a long time to get an opportunity and while he didn’t have lots to do, bar a save in the first-half from their corner, he did the basics well, including smothering a few balls at the end and taking pressure off our defence.

“I talked to him before the game that this wasn’t a game for coming for crosses and I thought he did well.

“I’m pleased for Aynsley because a No.2 goalie can go months and months without a ‘proper’ game of football it can be difficult to come and be expected to do the basics well.

“He did that and I’m pleased for him.”

Lewis Travis is now the only Rovers player to have started every league game this season after Kaminski’s ever-present run came to an end.

He is desperate to play against Bournemouth, where he made his Rovers debut last season, but Mowbray says there must be caution attached to that so not to lose him for an extended period.

While scans revealed minor damage, Mowbray is wary that rushing him back too soon could see him sustain a further injury.

He said: “The scans have a strain to the stomach muscles, rather than a tear, so he’ll build it up bit by bit.

“He’ll see how much pain he has and then of course if we decide to play him and he’s not 100 per cent repaired them a strain could become a tear and those are the decisions you have to make.

“We’ll assess him through the week and see how he gets on.”

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