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Paul Green is also expected to shake off an ankle injury as Rovers look to put the disappointment of missing out on automatic promotion behind them.

O'Driscoll, who led previous club Bournemouth to promotion via the League Two play-offs in 2003, told his players to do "whatever it took" to get the disappointment of their costly final-day defeat at Cheltenham out of their system - whether that meant "having a drink or kicking the cat".

The Irishman said: "In football, as a player or as a manager, you deal with disappointment a lot more than you deal with success.

"Unless you are the top four in the Premier League that is - nobody gets that much success that often. We've put last week to bed - that was last week.

"We've got another opportunity now and not a lot of teams get the chance of having another opportunity."