Since making their return to League One at the start of last season, Plymouth Argyle are on their way to experiencing a second consecutive campaign that can perhaps best be described as a "season of two halves".

In each of their two seasons back in English football's third tier, Argyle have won just two of their opening fifteen league games, leaving themselves deep in the relegation battle, before rallying to pull themselves clear of the dreaded dotted line.

Last season that rally saw Argyle end the campaign in seventh, just one place and three points off the playoffs, which would have left few expecting similarly poor start to this season.

But while Plymouth's new year rally has given them a fighting chance of survival, they remain just three points clear of the relegation zone. That is despite sitting in fifteenth, six places above the dotted line, an indicator of both how tight the fight for survival is in League One, and of the opportunity missed by Derek Adams' side.

Even with last season's dismal start, the Devonshire side are still twelve points short of their tally of 54 from this stage last season. Had they replicated that this time around, they would now be eighth in the table, just a single point short of the playoffs.

The fact is, Plymouth have shown with these runs that they are too good to be fighting against relegation back to League Two. Until they can start the season as they mean to go on however, that is the situation they will find themselves in, leading to nerves and frustration amongst the fanbase.

That is something Argyle know all too well about, after earlier this season Adams hit out a minority of fans over there "yobbish" behaviour, criticising the atmosphere it created, risking a divide within the club that is the last thing that any team fighting relegation needs, especially as aware of their potential as Plymouth must now be.