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DECISIONS, DECISIONS, DECISIONS

Posted on: Sat 02 Feb 2008

ARGYLE make a welcome return to footballing matters when Hull City visit Home Park on Saturday - kick-off 3pm.

After the most hectic January transfer window in the history of the club, manager Paul Sturrock is looking forward to a rematch with the Tigers who pushed the Pilgrims all the way in a 3-2 FA Cup win last month.

Luggy said: "It will be a very difficult game against Hull after a stiff win in the FA Cup and they had a few players not playing that day.

"We have got to be appreciative that we are going to have an even stiffer task than when we last played them."

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Dutch defender Marcel Seip is a doubt for the game, despite recovering the groin problem that kept him out of the away trips to Portsmouth and Ipswich.

Unfortunately, a bout of sickness may, again, sideline Argyle's talismanic centre-back and there is another unnamed doubt causing the manager concern.

Luggy said: "Marcel Seip has been struggling with sickness and we will give him right up to kick-off to see how he is.

"There is one other one suffering with an injury after playing in midweek and we will be giving him every opportunity as well."

The ever-enthusiastic Jamie Mackie, who signed from Exeter, last week is a possibility for bench duty, although the arrival of seven other players in the transfer window has made competition for places fiercer than ever.

Luggy said: "Jamie has come along and, all of a sudden, we have got two or three other strikers. It is going to be a slow process, although that is not to say that he won't be on the bench

"We have to see how he adapts and there is a fitting-in job for four or five of the players, and they need to adapt and blend in."

There was some good news regarding the fitness of long-term absentees Nick Chadwick and Paul Wotton, and new Hungarian signing Gyorgy Sandor.

"Nick Chadwick is another one or two weeks away from being back in some semblance of training," said Luggy.

"We have also had a good report on Sandor's injury. He will now be stepping himself up and we are very hopeful he will be available in a couple of weeks.

"Paul Wotton came through the game [Devon Bowl against Elmore] and we are very pleased.

"If you talk to Wottsy, he would play tomorrow. We have got a reserve game next week against Exeter and I am very hopeful he will play the full 90 minutes.

"He is obviously in a situation, like several of my players, where he is coming out of contract. We now have three months [before then end of the season] and it was very difficult to make an assessment over Christmas and New Year.

"It is now assessment time and I am looking for my pound of flesh as far as performance is concerned. Training, reserve games and first team games are all assessment to me.

"If somebody is playing in the team and doing very well, and somebody else is not playing, that does not mean that the boy who is not playing won't get a contract."

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