Plymouth Argyle are back on the road on New Years Day for
their first of two consecutive away games.
Carl Fletcher’s men will face a tough test away at Bristol
Rovers who have newly appointed John Ward as manager after Mark McGhee was the
fourth manager to be sacked in two years as Rovers boss. The day Mark McGhee was sacked John Ward was
all ready to make his way down to Plymouth to be appointed Director of
Football, after he heard the sacking he turned the chance of assisting Fletcher
down to peruse the position of Rover’s manager, this will be his second time of
managing the Bristol based club.
There will be another familiar face among the Bristol books,
formally on loan to Argyle Tom Hitchcock has taken up the opportunity to go
back out on loan to Bristol Rover’s, the Pilgrims opponents on New Year’s
Day. After being on loan to Argyle at
the start of last season he was quickly released by then his club Blackburn
Rovers in February of this year. After
the appointment of Mark Hughes at Queens Park Rangers, Hughes then selected
Tom’s dad Kevin Hitchcock to become the goalkeeping coach at QPR. Hitchcock followed his father footsteps to
the club by signing a one-year contact with the London club on the 4th
March 2012.
Following Argyle’s unbeaten run come to an end in their
encounter against Wycombe Wanders at Home Park, they will be looking to put it
right when the players take on Rover’s at the Memorial Stadium. A mistake from midfielder Luke Young gave the
Wander’s supporters a late Christmas present when he took too long to pass the football;
Matt McLure calmly placed it into the far right hand corner passing goalkeeper
Rene Gilmartin.
The visitor’s to the Memorial ground have taken all three
points over the past two season both from winning the game 3-2 after coming
from 2-0 down. Will it happen again?
Zimbabwe international defender Onismor Bhasera is a doubt
for the New Year’s Day clash with Bristol Rovers due to blurred vision. The versatile player had to be substituted in
the second half of the game on Saturday due to a clash of heads. Another player that is a doubt for the
encounter is Tyler Harvey. Harvey was
again substituted on Saturday with a slight calf injury. For Captain Darren Purse he doesn’t know what
fixture will be his last in a green shirt.
The 35 year old was put on the transfer list in late November to free up
some money for other players to come in and help the club process in the right
direction.
Available: -Jake
Cole, Rene Gilmartin, Ollie Chenoweth, Durrell Berry, Curtis Nelson, Jamie
Richards, Robbie Williams, Maxime Blanchard, Darren Purse, Conor Hourihane,
Paris Cowan-Hall, Luke Young, Jamie Lowry, Mark Molesley, Andres Gurrieri,
Jordan Copp, Jared Sims, Isaac Vassell, Joe Lennox, Rhys Griffiths, Nick
Chadwick, Matt Lecointe, Warren Feeney
Doubtful: - Tyler
Harvey (slight calf injury), Onismor Bhasera (blurred vision), Paul Wotton
(back injury)
Unavailable: -
Jed Harper-Penman (on loan to Bideford Town)
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