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DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER

Posted on: Sat 02 Feb 2008

ARGYLE manager Paul Sturrock has urged everyone with a Green heart to look to the future after the disappointing 1-0 defeat at home to Hull City.

It was a miserable end to a very difficult spell in the history of the club with a number of high-profile departures from Home Park in the January transfer window.

Luggy clearly feels that we have reached the point of no return and everybody connected with Argyle must now look forward.

He said: "This whole scenario is history. It is water under the bridge. We have to look to the future of Plymouth Argyle and not the past, and take that into games - that is players and the fan-base.

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"We have to start somewhere and there has to be a progression. If we don't, and we live in the past, this will get worse instead of better.

"If we had won that game we would bouncing out here today, waxing lyrical about what had happened in the past was in the past, and that is exactly where it should be - in the past.

"The fan-base came today and probably had in their mind that this scenario would unfold, and I honestly believe that seeped onto the football pitch. There was wariness about the team today.

"There is a disappointment around the place with the fan-base, but how do you think players feel when they see their fellow-players moving on?

"Uncertainty creeps into certain people's psyche in difficult circumstances like this."

Defeat to the Tigers came after a defensive mix-up allowed veteran Dean Windass to snatch victory for the visitors.

Luggy also felt we suffered from unwillingness to shoot on the few occasions decent opening did arise.

He said: "We looked disjointed today. It looked like the kind of game where one mistake was going to win it and, disappointingly, that mistake came from us.

"[Krisztián] Timár missed the ball completely, which makes it a bit easier. Windass is a quality and a thoughtful player and he caused us concern all day.

"We didn't pull the trigger today. Rory Fallon had a chance and Steve MacLean twice, and our final cross was disappointing. Certain players had disappointing performances and there were lots of things that went wrong today.

"It is something that we are going to have to manage and the only place we can manage that is on the training ground. We will be working our tails off to put a rhythm to this team again.

"I think some decent players have come into the club and they have got to be given their chance to bed themselves in."

One positive for the Chief Pilgrim was another encouraging performance from Scottish midfielder Chris Clark, who Luggy feels has similar attributes to former crowd favourite David Norris.

"I see likeness from Clark to a very young Norris," said Luggy. "He came on the left and put in a couple of decent crosses. He is a different player on the right."

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