Former Sheffield Wednesday manager Paul Sturrock has been through some turbulent times at Plymouth Argyle as of late, and the Devon outfit were trailing 1:4 to Barnsley last weekend until the game was abandoned. Sturrock described the abandonment as a 'get out of jail free card.'
Despite Argyle miserably lying 23rd, Kevin Blackwell knows it won't be a walk in the park at Home Park on Saturday as the Red and White Wizards search for their third consecutive victory. He begun: "We will respect every one of them in a green shirt, but I think the biggest danger is the potential backlash from that 1-4 'defeat' against Barnsley before the game was called off.
"I hear that Paul Sturrock cancelled days off this week and will be looking for a response from his players. It is a similar situation to last week when Bristol City had just been hammered at West Brom, and against Peterborough the week before when a new manager had been installed.
"We won those challenges and have a tidy record down there recently, but before the Barnsley blip Argyle had posted some decent results, including a win against Middlesbrough so we expect a tough challenge.
"I was at Plymouth for three years so I know how the Home Park crowd can pressure an away team. We knew that the opposition had probably had spent hours and hours travelling and were probably a bit stiff which wasn't conducive to coming out and playing the sort of flowing football they might like."
Journey time and mileage will prevent hundreds of Unitedites attending the clash, but Blackie is wanting to get down to Plymouth and back to Sheffield in a flash and isn't taking any chances - the squad are travelling by air: "We are taking every precaution to be properly prepared and are flying there and back to cut down on the travelling time."
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