Town boss Kieran McKenna has made four changes ahead of this evening’s game at Bristol Rovers.

Janoi Donacien, Sone Aluko, Marcus Harness and Freddie Ladapo come into the side for Harry Clarke, Conor Chaplin, Nathan Broadhead and George Hirst, all of whom are on the bench.

There’s no place in the squad for George Edmundson and Massimo Luongo, who were injury doubts going into the match.

Rovers hand on-loan Aston Villa midfielder Lamare Bogarde his debut and former Chelsea, Manchester City, Celtic and Swansea winger Scott Sinclair returns to the XI. Former Blues midfielder Grant Ward starts.

Bristol Rovers: Balcombe, Connolly, Gordon, Quansah, Sinclair, Ward, Collins (c), Anderson, Evans, Bogarde, Gibbons. Subs: Jaakkola, McCormick, Marquis, Coburn, Hoole, Lawrence, MacDonald.

Town: Walton, Donacien, Woolfenden, Burgess, Burns, Morsy (c), Humphreys, Davis, Aluko, Harness, Ladapo. Subs: Hladky, Clarke, Edwards, Broadhead, Chaplin, Jackson, Hirst. Referee: Paul Howard (London).

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runningout added 18:57 - Feb 14 what will be will be!! no dramas:-)
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Kilterums added 19:00 - Feb 14 Surprised at all those changes. Must be good reason. It's got my tenner!
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Letchworth_Blue added 19:01 - Feb 14 Stop messing about with the team. Know your best 11 and start with them. Stop trying to please everyone.
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jas0999 added 19:02 - Feb 14 Hopefully a very straight forward win. Not sure about this rotation policy though!
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bluelad7 added 19:07 - Feb 14 A win and no less tonight, anything less puts more pressure on the next game. COYB
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gosblue added 19:08 - Feb 14 No surprises. The front three alternate between start sheet and bench. Clarke isn't quite ready for a regular start but ok as cover. 3 points and a clean sheet a must. COYB
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Suffolkboy added 19:09 - Feb 14 K M knows exactly what he's doing week in week out ; but what we supporters want to see ,from each and every ITFC player, is determination and total focus and commitment from the very first whistle ! Get on with it boys, get down to it boys and show us how it's done and going to be done ! COYB
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tractorboybig added 19:28 - Feb 14 this manager is becoming a joke
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TimmyH added 19:32 - Feb 14 As predicted on Sunday...4 changes, he's certainly not keeping a settled starting 11, as for Harness starting it's about time he did something!
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DinDjarin added 19:34 - Feb 14 Harness over Boadhead or Chaplin is baffling. And Burns ahead of Jackson?
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Stato added 19:38 - Feb 14 Looks like McKenna has thrown towel in on top 2 and is targeting play offs.
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Bert added 19:38 - Feb 14 When is rotation simply another way of saying picking the right players for the right game ? We can only play a settled side when we have one ! 3 points please and no dramas tonight.
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Stato added 19:41 - Feb 14 McKenna was given another huge bundle of cash to spend in Jan but not one of those signings is in the starting 11. Bizarre doesn't even begin to cover it.
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runningout added 20:04 - Feb 14 too many experts about
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itfckenty added 20:14 - Feb 14 This has a loss all over it. Don't want to be negative but I can just see it happening. Too much rotation in the squad to form any consistency, I really hope I'm wrong!
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superblues9 added 20:18 - Feb 14 Why not start more Strikers he has so many now and plays 1 upfront and continuously we don't score enough ?!
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SickParrot added 20:26 - Feb 14 We should be in front so Rovers will score soon.
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KMANSers added 20:37 - Feb 14 Absolute garbage- stop f@@kin about with playing the ineffective rotation game- not working and players look disjointed- we will be lucky to make play offs if something is not changed instantly
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Texastom added 20:52 - Feb 14 These changes are costing us Promotion McKenna…
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