PROMOTION-chasing Plymouth Argyle have 13 League Two games remaining but I doubt any will be as important as the next two, writes Ross Reid.

Tomorrow second-placed Argyle (62 points) host third-placed Carlisle United (58).

Then – just as importantly, if not more so given Argyle’s last Tuesday home results – Derek Adams’ Greens face 15th-placed Blackpool, who start the weekend with 44 points.

Now is the time for Argyle’s players to step back up to the plate. Now is the time for their fans to give the Greens the support that famously led to the Green Army’s impromptu “Don’t Worry Bout A Thing” as the team strove towards a play-off goal.

I have said it before but – at the moment – nobody associated with the club nor numbering themselves among the 35,000 who went to Wembley for last season’s play-off final defeat wants to make the trip again, if at all possible.

On Tuesday against Notts County, Argyle were almost unrecognisable from the team that swept to a 3-0 Devon derby victory over in-form Exeter City in front of a packed house.

Instead the Greens slipped to a 1-0 defeat.

When Derek Adams calls his team’s performance “abject” you know the Greens have not had the best of games.

There is no point looking back. It’s important to look forward and hope that savvy midfield anchorman David Fox is fit enough to play tomorrow, or at least against one of his former clubs next Tuesday.

The importance of the experience of the 33-year-old former Norwich City Premiership player cannot be underestimated nor his presence as a steadying influence in a team that looked as though it lacked a compass on Tuesday.

Forget Fox in the box, think of the vision and guile that Fox offers Argyle. Those two qualities will be needed to overcome a Carlisle side anxious to bounce back from their own surprise 1-0 defeat, at 18th placed Cheltenham Town.