Ian Holloway has said that he is going to need his entire Swindon Town squad at some point if they are to succeed this season.

Swindon head to Stadium MK this weekend with Holloway taking charge of his first League Two game in charge.

Having asked for selection headaches in the week, Holloway said he wants even the players he doesn’t select to start against Milton Keynes Dons to have the mindset of contributing towards a victory.

 

 

He said: “It is not headaches, this is my job now, I have to sieve through it and as long as I can tell them why I am picking this team and he is in.

“If they sulk then I won’t like that, I don’t put up with any of that – it ain’t about you, it is about us; it ain’t about me, it is about us.

“I am very pleased with what I have seen and there is going to be disappointment, I just don’t ever want to see it. I can’t pick them all.

“I know an awful lot more about them than I did a week ago, some have come out of the shadows, for example, Mister [Sean] McGurk – why wasn’t he doing that before?”

Holloway added that he believed that the players coming off the bench would be just as important as the starters, as evidenced by the way they have come from behind in the second half of both matches so far.

He said: “The people who are coming off the bench normally win you the game or finish it off for you.

“With all the subs you can use these days you need a mentally up for it and together squad.

“Can we pick a team which not just formation-wise hurts them but the people I put in there hurt them too? And have I got enough strength on that bench to do slightly different things for if that doesn’t work then we do that?

“So far in the games we have had, our subs have changed everything, which is exactly what they should be ready to do, not sulking because they didn’t start.

“You either start or you come on and finish for us, that might be locking it up because we are in front or getting back from being behind.

“I don’t care what it is, we just have to find a way and as long as we end up with one more goal than them then I don’t care.”