Rovers are enjoying a good run of results following three consecutive league wins, but they welcome the division’s in-form team to Ewood Park this weekend.

Hull City have chalked up 23 points from a possible 27 and have lost just once in the league in the last three months.

That has moved Nigel Adkins’ side up to eighth in the table, above Rovers on goal difference, having scored 25 goals in their last nine league games.

Things were very different back in August when there was apathy around the KCOM Stadium as Bradley Dack’s first half goal handed Rovers a 1-0 win, their first since promotion back to the Championship.

Rovers will need to beware of Jarrod Bowen with the attacker having scored in four successive games and 10 in his last nine matches as he claimed the Championship’s player of the month award for December, with Adkins taking the manager prize.

For all that though, Rovers know a win would see them move above Hull in what is a tightly packed group of teams from eighth to 15th.

Ewood boss Tony Mowbray said: “Hull are on an amazing run, much better than ours.

“They have won six of their last seven league games. It will be a massive test for us.

“Something has changed dramatically at that club, whether it’s the form of young Bowen I’m not sure.

“If you picture back to earlier in the season when we got a 1-0 victory there and the crowd weren’t very happy and it wasn’t a great atmosphere, now they’ve won seven of their last eight. We are looking forward to the test.”