Parkes to be Recalled

Manager Steven Schumacher says that Argyle will be recalling goalkeeper Adam Parkes from his loan at Plymouth Parkway.

First-choice keeper Mike Cooper sustained a severe knee injury at Sheffield Wednesday at the weekend, meaning he will miss the remainder of the season. Callum Burton replaced Cooper at Hillsborough, and will keep goal for the Pilgrims going forward, with Parkes as his deputy.

Adam has been suffering from an injury of his own, to his shoulder, but will recover sufficiently to make the Argyle bench when the Greens play Portsmouth at Home Park this Saturday.

“He's been out on loan at Plymouth Parkway,” said Schumacher. “He’s had a little bit of a shoulder issue for the last couple of weeks, so we wanted that to settle down, but he'll be okay. We’ll be recalling him, and he'll be on the bench the weekend.

“We see him in training all the time. It's one of the benefits of sending the lads on loan to the local teams, they can still train with us, and we can see every day what they're capable of.

“I've seen Adam play. He looks calm and assured. Darren does good work with all three goalkeepers. When you have a setback in your goalkeeping department, it is amplified because there’s only a few of them.”