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The big Championship transfer story of the day is Bristol City's £9m bid for Brentford striker Andre Gray.

Crystal Palace striker Dwight Gayle's already turned them down, but what about Gray? 

The Robins' previous transfer record is £2.25m paid to Crewe for Nicky Maynard in 2008...

Whatever you're up to this evening, spare a thought for the Carlisle fans who are undertaking the 779-mile round trip to watch their team play at Plymouth. 

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"It's not fair on the supporters, having to travel long distances on a Tuesday night," Argyle manager Derek Adams told BBC Devon.

"You can tell the computer system that and the computer system won't listen. It's not up to individuals."

If you're one of the hardy few brave enough to take the journey on, we'd love to hear from you. 

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So Peterborough and Sheffield United are already under way - it's goalless there at the moment. 

Why the earlier kick-off I wonder? I can think of an argument for getting another of this evening's ties off to an earlier start...

League Two:

Accrington v Mansfield

AFC Wimbledon v Cambridge 

Barnet v Northampton 

Crawley v Portsmouth 

Dag & Red v Exeter 

Hartlepool v Newport 

Leyton Orient v Stevenage 

Luton v Bristol Rovers 

Morecambe v Wycombe 

Oxford Utd v Notts County 

Plymouth v Carlisle 

York v Yeovil

League One:

Peterborough v Sheff Utd (19:30 BST)

Blackpool v Burton 

Bradford v Gillingham 

Bury v Fleetwood 

Colchester v Oldham 

Coventry v Crewe 

Millwall v Barnsley 

Rochdale v Walsall 

Shrewsbury v Chesterfield

Swindon v Port Vale

So here's what's going down tonight. All kick-offs 19:45 BST unless stated.

Championship:

Blackburn v Cardiff 

Derby v Middlesbrough 

Huddersfield v Brighton 

Ipswich v Burnley 

MK Dons v Bolton

Nottm Forest v Charlton 

Rotherham v Preston

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There's also one more game we haven't told you about.

Manchester United are at home to Club Brugge in a Champions League play-off first leg.

If that's more your sort of thing, head on over here for the latest from Old Trafford.

Both Rotherham and Preston are unchanged.

Rotherham: Roos; Buxton, Collins, Halford (c), Mattock; Maguire, Frecklington, Smallwood, Newell; Bowery, Derbyshire.

Subs: Collin, Ledesma, Green, White, G Ward, Clarke-Harris, Thorpe.

Preston: Pickford, Wright, Huntington, Clarke, Cunningham, Humphrey, Gallagher, Welsh, Johnson, Garner, Keane.

Subs: Kirkland, Woods, Vermijl, Browne, Brownhill, Kilkenny, Reid. 

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There are four changes for Rovers with Fode Koita, Nathan Delfouneso, Tommy Spurr coming in - plus there's a first start for Hope Akpan.  

Blackburn XI:  Raya, Henley, Duffy, Hanley, Spurr, Marshall, Lowe, Akpan, Conway, Delfouneso, Koita. Subs: Steele, Kilgallon, Olsson, Williamson, O'Sullivan, Guthrie, Barrow

Meanwhile, Cardiff are unchanged from the team that drew 2-2 at QPR on Saturday. 

Cardiff XI:  Marshall, Peltier, Malone, Morrison, Connolly, Dikgacoi, Whittingham, Ralls, Pilkington, Mason, Revell 

Nottingham Forest's  Dexter Blackstock and Oliver Burke come in for Michail Antonio and Tyler Walker, while Spanish defender Daniel Pinillos is still waiting for his debut. He is among the substitutes.

Nottingham Forest: De Vries, Lichaj, Wilson, Mills, Mancienne, O Burke, Vaughan, Lansbury, C Burke, Ward, Blackstock.

Subs: Evtimov, Paterson, Hobbs, Pinillos, Walker, Grant, Osborn.

An easy job for  Charlton boss Guy Luzon. The same XI and the same bench from the side that drew at Derby on Saturday.

Charlton: Pope, Solly, Diarra, Bauer, Fox, Gudmundsson, Cousins, Kashi, Ceballos, Watt, Makienok.

Subs: Mitov, Sarr, Bergdich, Ba, Jackson, Ghoochannejhad, Ahearne-Grant.

One change for Huddersfield as Harry Bunn replaces the injured Sean Scannell.

Huddersfield XI:  Murphy, Smith, Davidson, Whitehead, Hudson, Jonathan Hogg,Butterfield, Miller, Bunn, Wells, Lynch

It's an unchanged starting line-up for Brighton - they've won two out of two so why change it up?

Brighton XI:  Stockdale; Bruno, Greer, Huenemeier, Bong; Stephens, Kayal, LuaLua, March; Baldock, Hemed.

Ipswich Town are unchanged from the side that beat Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 on Saturday. 

Ipswich: Bialkowski, Chambers, Smith, Berra, Knudsen, Skuse, Douglas, Fraser, Maitland-Niles, Murphy, Sears.

Subs: Gerken, Emmanuel, Coke, Tabb, Toure, Pitman, McGoldrick.

Just the one change for Burnley with Sam Vokes starting up front with Lukas Jutkiewicz dropping to the bench.  

Burnley: Heaton, Darikwa, Duff, Keane, Mee, Boyd, Jones, Arfield, Kightly, Vossen, Vokes. 

Subs: Jutkiewicz, Taylor, Sordell, Gilks, Ward, Anderson, Hennings.

Peru international Cristian Benavente makes his first league start for MK Dons, while Simon Church is also recalled to the starting line-up.

MK Dons:  Martin; Spence, McFadzean, Kay, Lewington; Potter, Carruthers; Baker, Benavente, Bowditch; Church. 

Subs: Cropper, Hodson, Upson, Aguza, Jennings, Powell, Gallagher.  

Neil Lennon was clearly not happy with his side after their 3-0 loss at Middlesbrough. Three changes including Emile Heskey dropping to the bench. Lawrie Wilson, Gary Madine and Zach Clough start.

Bolton:  Amos, Wilson, Prince, Dervite, Moxey, Vela, Danns, Davies, Feeney, Clough, Madine. 

Subs: Fitzsimons, Spearing, Heskey, Dobbie, Twardzik, Walker, Holding.

We've already got the team news in for all of tonight's Championship fixtures - so let's start with Derby, who make two changes from the side that drew 1-1 at home to Charlton on Saturday - Warnock and Weimann come in for Russell and Forsyth. 

Derby XI: Carson, Baird, Keogh, Shackell, Warnock; Hanson, Thorne, Hendrick; Ince, Martin, Weimann. 

Just the one change for Boro, as Ben Gibson returns from injury at centre-back, Nsue dropping out.

Boro XI:  Dimi, Kalas, Ayala, Gibson, Friend, Adomah, Clayton, Leadbitter, Downing, Fabbrini, Kike. 

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Here's Derby manager Paul Clement's thoughts on the tie against Boro: “I’ve not met Aitor before so I’m looking forward to meeting him.

“He left just as I arrived at Real Madrid but I understand he’s a terrific guy. I know he is close friends with Fernando Hierro, who I worked with last year.

“The fact we are playing one of our rivals is important and a victory will give us lots of confidence.”

And what about Aitor?

"Paul reminds me of when I arrived here," Karanka said. 

“It’s not the same from being an assistant to being a manager and he needs time, but I’m sure he’s going to be a successful manager.

"We both need the three points so we have to remember the last game and know how good we played that day, because it’s going to be just as difficult."  

We're just two games into the season - and it's only Paul Clement's third game in charge of a football club - but tonight's result should still give us an early idea about which of these two promotion-fancied sides will be up there in May. 

Last season it was Aitor Karanka's Boro who tasted disappointment and defeat in the Championship play-off final. The year before, it was Derby. 

For the moment though, it's all niceties between the two managers...

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It's not often a Tuesday night in the Championship boasts such strong connections with Real Madrid. 

But this evening two former Madrid assistants meet in the standout fixture at Derby, where Rams boss Paul Clement welcome's Aitor Karanka's Middlesbrough.

And that's not all we've got lined up for you tonight either. Oh no. 

There's also six more second-tier fixtures, including league leaders' Brighton's trip to Huddersfield, seven League One ties and a full schedule in League Two.

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