It’s everybody off to the seaside tomorrow night as Saddlers fans, following their away trip to Lincoln on Saturday, now need to travel down the cul de sac that is Devon and Cornwall for their game at Plymouth in the League/Milk/Carling/Whoever it is sponsoring it now Cup. Just the ticket for a weekday night, the 205 mile trek to the town Hitler tried to flatten. Still, never mind.

What we don’t know, of course, is what Richard Money’s attitude is going to be to this competition. I don’t think we are likely to get the farce we had two years ago under Forrest Gump, when he decided to make 11 changes for the game at Sheffield Wednesday, but it does seem to be a good chance to experiment a little.

Wrack and Nicholls are nearing full training now, but still unavailable and influential skipper Dobson and new signing Bedeau are unlikely to be declared fit. It still wouldn’t surprise me to see new signing Carlos Fangueiro get a start at the club he was on trial at earlier this summer. Allan Picken, if fit, might also get a start and Dickie Dosh could also be considering playing Pead in the middle after his successful outing there on Saturday (thus giving Kinsella’s legs a rest) as well as bringing in Demontagnac on the left wing. Constable, if recovered from his injury, could also be a possibility up front.

The 16, therefore, is likely to come from:

Ince, Gilmartin, Westwood, Gerrard, and/or Roper and/or Picken, Taylor, Fangueiro, Pead, Keates, Demontagnac, Sam, Butler, Constable, Wright, plus a couple of the youngsters.

Plymouth have a new manager as well, the outspoken and somewhat eccentric Ian Holloway. His major changes have been to bring in Manchester United youngster Sylvan Ebanks-Blake after his release from Old Trafford as well as the veteran and ever-dangerous Barry Hayles.

Their influential midfielder Lilian Nalis was missing with an injury on Saturday (as was former Bolton and Charlton full back Anthony Barness), but may now figure, as could Hungarian International midfielder Buszacky. Amongst the other names to look out for are Northern Ireland International Tony Capaldi, the dangerous and tricky David Norris in midfield, the goal scoring captain Paul Wotton, former Everton striker Nick Chadwick and another ex Manchester United youngster in Bojan Djordic.

They lined up on Saturday like this:

Luke McCormick, Paul Connolly, Mathias Kouo-Doumbe, Hasney Aljofree, Tony Capaldi, David Norris, Paul Wotton (captain), Luke Summerfield, Lee Hodges; Barry Hayles, Nick Chadwick. Substitutes: Gary Sawyer, Reuben Reid, Akos Buzsaky, Bojan Djordjic, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake.

And yes, for those curious to know, midfielder Luke Summerfield is the son of former Saddler Kevin Summerfield.

Predictions?

You don’t think I’m going to go over the top on this one, surely? Four games into the season and still unbeaten and coming off the back of a superb fight back on Saturday, with a 92nd minute equaliser, we should be going into this one brimming with confidence and looking for a shock. Plymouth, however, are a very long way from being push-overs.

Holloway’s men have got off to something of a flyer, following a season of struggle last year and have been there or there abouts at the top of the Championship so far this season. They were, however, bought back down to earth with a bump on Saturday, losing 2 – 1 at home to Sheffield Wednesday, who have been struggling until this point. What made that worse, of course, is that Wednesday are managed by former boss Paul Sturrock.

This game may well depend on how Holloway reacts to Saturday’s result. He might have been tempted to rest some players, but their poor defending in the home defeat might mean that he wants to work on his first choice squad. If that’s the case, I can’t see us getting anything from this game, but, if they take it lightly in any way, a shock might be on the cards.