Doncaster Rovers boss Sean O'Driscoll is likely to use this week's international break to try to bolster his squad.

Already without influential skipper Brian Stock until early in the New Year following ankle surgery, O'Driscoll will also be without in-form centre-back Adam Lockwood for at least six weeks as a result of two broken bones in his foot sustained in the midweek game against Swansea. Midfielder Mark Wilson limped off with a calf injury early in Saturday's 1-1 draw at Sheffield United and centre-back Byron Webster needed a pain-killing injection in an elbow injury at half-time. James Coppinger has missed the last two games with a similar injury and John Oster and Quinton Fortune have both got one more of their three-game ban to serve. "The break has possibly come at the best time for us," said the Rovers boss. "If we'd had a game tomorrow we'd be struggling to put a team out capable of getting something out of it in this division." Reflecting on Rovers' fourth successive draw, O'Driscoll said:"I thought they did what you want a side at Bramall Lane to do, but I think that we can do better with the ball. "There were times in the first half when I thought that we were really brave to get it down and to use the ball when it would have been easier to get the ball forward as quickly as we could. "But if we play like that we'll end up losing more games than we win." Despite being under pressure for long periods of the first half, it was Rovers who broke the deadlock just before the break through James Hayter's third goal of the season. "I think the first goal was crucial," said O'Driscoll. "It gave us something to hang on to and that's great when you are away from home. "They built up the pressure as the game went on and equalised. We ended up putting an extra forward on because I didn't want to wait until we were two goals down to bring on Paul Heffernan. "At 1-1 we wanted to try and change the cycle of the game. That's why we brought on another forward - we wanted to try and give them different problems." O'Driscoll admitted Rovers hadn't posed the Blades the same difficulties as last season