THIS is a crunch game for everybody involved with this football club.
Win, and we move a healthy distance away from relegation trouble. Lose, and the club will be fighting the wolf at the door.
And what a place to need to win; Charlton Athletic, bottom of the Championship after a fantastic fall from grace. This time two seasons ago, the media departments of Manchester United and Arsenal were sat in my seat, writing reports, blogs and features on their club and the fixture with the Premiership regulars.
If Argyle fans think that their club is in turmoil, then they should take a look at the Addicks who are doing what has become known as a 'Leeds'.
Having had five successful seasons in the world's buggest league, Charlton have plummeted massively, and are now fighting for their lives at the bottom of England's second tier.
Things off the pitch don't look good either. It is even rumoured that the club are losing up to £10,000 a day, despite still receiving parachute payments from the Premier League.
Basically, they budgeted for an instant return to the Promised Land and cocked it up, leaving them with a horrible rotten egg dripping down their faces.
Having talked in the week of wholesale changes, Luggy kept to his word, replacing Fallon, Sawyer and Doumbe for Clark, Barker and Summerfield.
But it was Alan Judge who fell into the spotlight to start with. The young winger (who is about 4' high by the way) had a sterling home debut against Derby last Saturday and perhaps should have scored early on.
Today, his role was the same and with Gallagher and Mackie up top and Clark on the opposite wing, the obvious tactic was to drive forward with the ball on the floor.
The wee Irishman's first proper contribution showed his midfield grounding, lofting a long ball up top to Jamie Mackie, who was unlucky to lose out to huge centre-half Darren Ward.
Thing went quiet for a while before Judge was hacked down midway inside the Argyle half after the ball hd been played. The incident, that surely warranted a card for the perpetrator Tom Soares, happened right in front of the linesman on the near side but was clearly ignored. I hope he's not going to be a problem.
Luckily, there was no lasting damage and Judge was again on his feet helping with an Argyle attack. After a decent, well-lofted corner from Luke Summerfield, the ball bounced out to Judge who beat his man, skipped into the area and delivered a decent cross. But, unfortunately, Darren Ward was again equal to it and sensibly headed it to safety.
There was then a short break in play as Simon Walton received treatment for a head injury. Although it was Murty's high foot that caused the challenge, it was referee Trevor Kettle who most annoyed the 1,200 or so members of the Green Army behind Romian Larrieu' goal.
When Walton hit the deck, it was clear that it was a head injury and that play would have to be stopped. But instead, Mr Kettle allowed play to continue and even allowed Charlton to take a shot before Maxi could jog on and see to Walts. Even the Charlton attackers weren't sure what to do and stalled their break in hesitation. Awful refereeing.
Charlton then took the lead through a sumptuous strike by Therry Racon.
Anyway, enough of that, back to our boy Judge who since the goal had been a bit quiet. He wasn't the only one.
The first-half came and went and at the start of the second-half, you didn't feel Argyle were dead and buried. In fact, from the off they looked ready to avenge their previous injustice.
Rory Fallon replaced Chris Clark at the break so we focussed our attentions on him, whilst keeping one eye on the referee.
But before Rory could get a touch, Charlton were awarded a penalty for a handball. It was ball to hand, but to be fair to the referee (which I don't like being), I have seen them given.
Ro came to the rescue as he stood strong and saved the first penalty of his long Argyle career from Nick Bailey to keep the Pilgrims in the game. The players were delighted and ran to Larrieu to congratulate him.
Argyle were rallied. Surely, surely this could be the game that we come from behind to win. Eyes on you, Big Man.
Rory was doing well, acting as the target man and knocking it onto Gallagher and Judge who were all doing their best to bring Argyle back to the show.
It wasn't long before Fallon got a chance to score, all be it a weak one when Summerfield's pass was bundled wide by the Kiwi.
But then the killer blow when Nicky Bailey made up for the missed penalty by firing Charlton two in front.
Luggy acted accordingly and sent on Paterson for Summerfield, going 4-3-3. We stuck with Paterson who was making his first appearance since the 2-0 loss to Barnsley before Christmas.
Since then, the Scotsman seems to have been the forgotten man, left out of several squads despite his versatility.
But he was right into it at the Valley providing crosses that failed to be met in the middle.
It ended 2-0. Shame. Real shame.
