Wait and see for John

06.12.2012

John McGlynn is waiting to see how his injured stars cope at training before deciding on his squad for Saturday's Aberdeen game.

The Tynecastle clash sees the high-flying Dons visit the capital and John hopes to have Arvydas Novikovas and

Speaking to the press at Riccarton this morning, John said: "Novikovas is going to do a warm up this morning and we'll see how he gets on. He turned his ankle on Sunday and he's not a certainty by any matter of means so he's going to try training today.

"Darren Barr will be okay. He took a knock from a fairly hefty tackle on Sunday.

"He is suffering from shin splints and has been suffering for some time, to the extent that it's now quite bad. So he'll need to be managed for the foreseeable future with regards to maybe not having to train quite as much. He'll probably need to do more CV work to avoid pounding on his shins.

"It's an injury he's had for a wee while, we've had him scanned and there's no stress fracture or anything there. However, as I said it's something where we're going to have to work with him and get him through it.

"We have no-one else back. Jason Holt will be out and so will Dylan McGowan. At best we'll have the same squad as we did on Sunday. "

The gaffer knows just how dangerous Aberdeen will be this weekend, claiming that the previous encounter between the two teams the season was the hardest his side have been worked.

"I've been very impressed with Aberdeen," he said. "I've watched them a number of times. It's one of the only games, when we played them after Liverpool at Tynecastle, where in the second half we got an absolute doing. I think we were out on our feet on that particular occasion, but they've given us our hardest game and we were very fortunate to get a point from that.

"I think Craig Brown and Archie Knox have been very wise bringing in the players that they've brought in and they've got a good squad now."

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