Torquay United and Yeovil Town complete their pre-season friendly schedule today with a match against one another at Plainmoor (3pm).

Paul Buckle's npower League Two United side will be looking to carry forward the form that has seen them notch six wins from seven pre-season games to date.

Their sole defeat, a 3-1 reverse, was to Neil Warnock's Championship first team outfit Queen's Park Rangers earlier this month.

Since then Buckle's Gulls have responded with an 8-0 victory at Southern League Premier outfit Tiverton Town, a 2-1 comeback win over Bristol City and a 3-0 win at Blue Square South side Weston-super-Mare in midweek.

It all bodes well as Buckle hopes his team to continue the form they showed at the end of last term, when they were unbeaten in eight matches and set a new club record of 691 minutes without conceding.

The Gulls boss has made no secret of his desire to replicate last season's 17th-placed finish and in doing so carry on where his side left off at the tail end of last term.

Then the Torquay manager was adamant he only wanted a few additions to a squad noticeably coming to terms with life back in the Football League, following promotion from the Blue Square Premier.

Those additions have been kept to the acquisition of Cambridge goalkeeper Danny Potter – as a replacement for out-going former Southampton loan keeper Michael Poke – former Leicester City teenage striker Billy Kee and ex-Norwich City midfielder Damon Lathrope.

Central defender Guy Branston has also joined United permanently along with defender Lathaniel Rowe-Turner, whose short-term contract with the club has been extended to a new two-year deal.

Buckle has also clinched the loan signing of Chesterfield striker Martin Gritton, the 32-year-old Scot whose best scoring spell came in his promotion-winning spell at Plainmoor previously.

Speaking about his squad, Buckle said: "I am delighted with the squad I've got now. Yes, I have a database of players we might be interested in, and we're got our scouts checking on players as they always are. But I am not looking anywhere definite to bring anybody else in at the moment.

"We've got two first-year pros (Ashley Yeoman and Ed Palmer) who it would be unfair to expect to start in the league at the moment, although they're coming along well. But the other 19 pros are all capable of starting for us."

He added: "The plan this week is to keep the whole squad together for all the games. Even if some players don't play, they will go along to watch."

Meanwhile, Yeovil's central striker, former Aston Villa forward Sam Williams, has already scored three times in pre-season.

Williams was on target in opening 3-3 friendly draw at Wycombe and also scored again last Saturday as Terry Skiverton's Glovers beat a Manchester United XI 3-2 in Darren Way's benefit match at Huish Park.

Williams also scored a sixth minute goal in Wednesday night's 3-1 friendly defeat by Bristol City. Team-wise, United wait on the fitness of winger Danny Stevens (ankle) while Yeovil are set to include new signing Adam Virgo, the former Brighton & Hove Albion central defender.