The Championship is back next weekend with a full programme of fixtures from Friday to Monday.

Brentford take on Rotherham United in one of the games at Griffin Park as the Championship season gets back underway with a number of enticing fixtures.

The Bees will play host to Rotherham, hoping to go one better this season after falling narrowly short of the play-offs last term.

Rotherham will come into the season full of confidence, having won promotion back to the Championship at the first time of asking via the play-offs, as they defeated Shrewsbury Town to book their place in the second tier.

The Millers will be hoping to do better than last time out, when they finished bottom of the pile in 2016/17.

Here are four things that fans are likely to be talking about ahead of Rotherham's trip to West London this weekend to take on Brentford.

Last time they were in the Championship, Rotherham finished rock bottom with just five wins in 46 games and a staggering 33 losses.

With just 23 points to their name last time, there will be many wondering if Rotherham can avoid a similar fate and survive the drop this time out.

Brentford have lost Florian Jozefzoon to Derby County and John Egan to Sheffield United this summer.

Last season, they proved that they can cope without the likes of Jota, Harlee Dean and Maxime Colin but can they replace Jozefzoon and Egan this summer?

Said Benrahma and Ezri Konsa will be hoping to step into the respective winger and centre-back vacancies with aplomb.

Rotherham have made a handful of decent signings this summer, with Clark Robertson, Marek Rodak, Billy Jones, Sean Raggett, Zak Vyner and Kyle Vassell arriving.

Does Paul Warne look to integrate these players into the starting line-up early or does he opt to keep faith with the side which won him promotion?

Brentford, under the guidance of Dean Smith, play some lovely flowing football.

The Bees are always up there and in with a shout and this Saturday's game will give us an early indication of whether we can expect the West Londoners to be competing for promotion this season.