The seasonal run of Devon derby games starts tomorrow at St James Park as Exeter City host Plymouth Argyle in the first of three such meetings during the month of December.
A week later, the Grecians travel to Plainmoor to face Torquay United and then on Boxing Day the Gulls take on Argyle at Home Park.
These are three games where the formbook is likely to go out of the window as it often does on such occasions.
Also, due to the time of year that these games are taking place, they are likely to generate high interest from the Devon football public and therefore higher crowds than for your run-of-the-mill League Two encounter.
Tomorrow's clash between the Grecians and the Pilgrims will have great significance for Exeter striker Alan Gow who was released by the Pilgrims at the 2009-10 season.
He arrived at St James Park last March and has earned rave reviews for his performances as a striker or playing behind the front two.
The Pilgrims will also be looking to build on last week's 2-0 win over York City, their first in nine matches in all competitions.
It will also be the fifth time that Argyle have played the Grecians in the past three seasons, after having gone ten years without playing each other. Of those five encounters the Pilgrims have only won one of those games, which came in December 2010 when Argyle won 2-0 courtesy of a Bradley Wright-Phillips brace.
That is a statistic that Pilgrims boss Carl Fletcher will be looking to improve upon.
