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SECOND-CHANCE SALOON

Posted on: Fri 24 Jul 2009

ARGYLE manager Paul Sturrock will give Hungarian trialist Zoltan Szélesi a second-chance to impress in Saturday's pre-season friendly at Morecambe - kick-off 3pm.

The 27-year-old from Budapest played against Romanian champions Unirea in Glasgow on Wednesday, and Luggy now wants to see how he copes with Coca-Cola League Two opponents.

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He said: "It was difficult to make an assessment - [Unirea] play a different style to most of the teams we play in our league so it was difficult to judge him on a British footing.

"I'd like to see him in the hurly-burly of English football, which I'm sure will be stiff test for him."

Carl Fletcher looks set for action for the first time since the Pilgrims left Plymouth eight days ago despite suffering a toe injury in training on Tuesday.

"He's fine," said Luggy. "We'll have to see if there's any reaction from training. If there's no reaction, he'll come on at half-time."

Defender David Mcnamee, who made his pre-season bow after a calf injury when he started aginst Unirea, will also see some action.

Luggy said: "I'm watching him because, obviously, he's missed a lot of the games. He played for an hour the other night. I felt it wasn't appropriate to put him in again, but he'll play a part in the game.

With just two weeks to go until Argyle kick off the new Coca-Cola Championship season at Crystal Palace, Luggy know what he is looking for: "Development, as far as performance from the individual and from the team is concerned.

"We're tampering a wee bit in this game from what we've been doing in the last two or three games, Not a great deal. We should be able to handle it.

"I'm looking for that sharpness that has been missing in most of the games so far.

"The important thing is that we realise that the next two weeks are vitally important for the first game against Crystal Palace - the individual performances, the team performance and the results all go hand in hand."

Morecambe will provide a stern test for the Pilgrims, as they gear up for their season-opener at home to Hereford United on August 8.

It took 86 years for the Shrimps to achieve their dream of League football, and former Northern Ireland manager Sammy McIlroy was the man to guide them out of the Conference with a 2-1 Wembley win over Exeter City in 2007.

McIlroy remains in charge at Christie Park and the recent double signing of Phil Jevons and Ian Craney from Huddersfield has given the club a timely ahead of our visit.

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