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Austin not involved today, so certain to be going.

Krovinovic starting, so we'll have to wait and see on that one.

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Lonergan really, I thought we had learned the lesson of all our signings being geriatric (that is a combined age of 71 from our two signings so far) .  If we are going to bring someone of that age at least make it someone decent, someone like Ben Foster, who is the same age.  If a player gets to this age and you have not really heard much of them, there must be a reason.  I really cannot see any reason for this signing unless it is as a backup for our new first team keeper,  I have said it before but will repeat it, getting rid of Johnston would be a catastrophic mistake.  With a defence like ours getting rid of statistically the best keeper in the country is lunacy.

I presume if we sold Johnstone, the money would be invested to improve our rubbish defence, so we concede less shots. I mean is it even worth having statistically the best goalkeeper when we're conceding 3-5 goals on a regular basis anyway? There's obviously a problem in front of him that needs to be addressed. But I realise we're covering old ground here, so i'll leave my opinion at that

I don't think Johnstone will go until the summer anyway. Teams will know we're likely to get relegated and will get him much cheaper if we go down, with 12 months left on his contract.

Lonergan on the bench today, with Button starting. So it does look like he's just a replacement 3rd choice for Bond and will not impact upon the first team picture.