BITS AND PIECES

• Alex Russell is unlikely to return to Plainmoor. Aggy is a transfer target for all sorts of clubs since being released by Bristol City, but is likely to stay at League One level, which would also rule him out of a move to a certain other Devon team...It's all in Thursday's Herald Express and at www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk
• Matt Hockley has signed for Truro City, joining the ambitious Cornish club's squad for their first tilt at the Southern League.
• An interesting report coming from the south-east suggests that Ebbsfleet's Wembley hero Chris McPhee, a former Gull of course, will not be signing for the Fleet for the coming season, preferring a move back to Devon, where he has strong family commitments. Interesting indeed...
• Former Plainmoor favourite Dean Edwards, manager of Unibond Premier outfit Hednesford Town, has appointed another ex-Gulls star as his number two. Matt Elliott, who played for Cyril Knowles in the late Eighties before moving on to Scunthorpe, Oxford, Leicester and Scotland, is Deano's new right-hand-man.
• Kevin Hill's Wembley Trophy final shirt is to be auctioned for charidee. Full details over at www.torquayunited.com