Holloway provides injury update before MK Dons trip

Swindon Town will have a fully fit squad available for selection as they travel to face Milton Keynes Dons in League Two on Saturday.

As Ian Holloway prepares to name his first league line-up as manager of Swindon he will have an almost entirely fit squad to pick from, aside from Grant Hall who is serving a three-match suspension for his red card against Gillingham.

The new manager has had two cup matches to prepare for this game as he looks to get to know his new squad and asked for the two entirely different line-ups he has put out to give him selection headaches for the game against Scott Lindsey’s side.

Holloway said that having seen his whole squad, he had learned an awful lot about the players, with some players like Sean McGurk already taking him by surprise with what he had been able to show.

Swindon have struggled with injuries in the early part of this season, but they should have an entirely fit squad when they visit Stadium MK.

Holloway said: “I have got a fully fit, raring-to-go group of people, most of whom I have seen and I am very pleased with.”

Rosaire Longelo was the only possible concern after he went off during the second half against Tottenham Hotspur Under-21s after going down with an injury but that is not believed to be a problem.

Holloway said: “The only concern the other evening was Rosaire cramped up but I think that was just a lack of minutes.

“We brought him off but I don’t think it was anything serious, touch wood, I would have got a phone call yesterday if that was the case.”

Holloway mentioned after the mid-week Bristol Street Motors Trophy win that Hall, Ryan Delaney, and Jeff King were all limited in that game with how much they could play as they continued their recoveries.

Having come through the match, Holloway said that they had done well in proving that they were ready for more involvement.

He said: “I didn’t know they were injured when I watched them play, which was really pleasing, they didn’t look like they were carrying anything or off the pace.

“Well done to the medical team and to those lads in particular.

“Jeff didn’t want to come off, he felt that he could carry on but the sports scientists tell you now that they might be injured, so well done to him.”