Injuries restricted the utility man to just 14 appearances last year, but he has vowed to make a far bigger impact in 2015-16.

The former Peterborough captain played his last game in December and had to watch from the sidelines as his team-mates went within a whisker of reaching the play-offs.

Rowe was thought to be coming back into the fold in April, but a knee injury hampered his comeback, after he had previously suffered a broken foot twice including during the Boxing Day win at Watford.

Rowe admitted: "It was a frustrating first season for me. The lads did really well and it was great to watch in the second half of the season even though I would rather not have been watching.

"Hopefully this is my season now to go out there and get a good run of games under my belt and show what I can do.

"All I have been thinking about since picking up the injury over Christmas was my next game.

"I hoped that would be at the end of last season and that was probably the drive which got me back.

"Now I am even more determined and excited about what is to come and have already been studying the pre-season fixtures. I can't wait for the first training session and the first game."

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Fitness-wise, 26-year-old Rowe is now in a 'good place' and hopes to start pre-season in great shape. And he is happy to be boss Kenny Jackett's utility man if he mean's he's in the team.

Rowe said: "If there was a position I really favoured I'd no doubt speak to the gaffer and say that is where I wanted to battle for a place.

"But things do happen for a reason, and whether it's at left-back, left-wing or midfield, as long as you know that job and go out there and give your all, then you are happy to be involved."