Bristol boss Gary Johnson seems very keen on forwards at present.

And loan signing Stern John, a 31-year-old Trinidad & Tobago international, is his latest acquisition.

John will join fellow former Coventry hitman Dele Adebola, record signing Nicky Maynard, bargain signing John Akinde, serial injury victim come super-sub Steve Brooker and former Swansea wizard Lee Trundle in the race for a starting place in Bristol City's attack.

But what can he do? He was banging in goals for his country as early as 1998 while playing for Columbus Crew.

Nottingham Forest snapped him up for a cool £1.5million in November 1999 and were repaid with 18 goals from 49 league starts.

Birmingham snapped him up for a tenth of the price in 2002, a mere £150,000 and he seemed to make his fans happy there.

After two seasons, 42 league starts and 18 league goals Coventry came calling and the Blues made a £50,000 profit.

John lasted two-and-a-half seasons there with a strike rate of 26 league goals in 65 league starts before a lean spell on loan at Derby, six months at Sunderland and then a new lease of life at Southampton.

The six foot tall front man endeared himself to the south coast locals with 20 goals last season including the first of the Saints 2-0 defeat of Bristol City at St Mary's in April this year.

This season though he has failed to shine, finding the net only once in ten outings enabling Johnson to wheel and deal and engineer the strikers path from the South Coast to the South West.