Two members of Doncaster Rovers' squad believe they will all benefit from an educational first year in League One.

Rovers were promoted last year as League Two champions and after a topsy-turvy campaign back in the third tier, they secured their safety with three games to spare.

Only a clutch of the squad put together by Grant McCann at the start of the season had experience of this level. But they have coped admirably with many now fully acclimatised to what the division demands. "I think we'll all be better for it next year," midfielder George Broadbent reflected. "Not many of us have experienced this division before this season. But there's nothing to fear. We all know now that we can play in this division.

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"We'll not be signing players for the sake of it. They'll be coming in because they're good enough. It's about getting players in like that and pushing on next year."

Full-back Jamie Sterry agrees that Rovers will be all the better for having a season under their belts - ready to aim higher in 2026-27. "I think it puts us all in a better position for next season to try and do what we aim to do, and that's to get promoted," said Sterry, one of the few with previous League One experience from his time on loan at Coventry in 2016-17. "That's the aim next season and what we want.

"And it helps having all those games in the bag now and that experience. And I think we've done really well as a group. After the Easter period when we lost the two games we could have easily gone under but we don't do that here. We've got a good, resilient group. We want to finish the season strong and keep those standards high going into the next one."

Rovers welcome Stevenage on Saturday in their final home game of the season.