THE sun is shining brightly on Plymouth Argyle right now.

Only Rotherham can better their current run of five straight wins in League One.

But nobody can match their scorching charge from bottom spot in mid-December to the brink of the play-offs.

And they will face City at Home Park on Saturday suitably refreshed from a warm-weather break on the Costa Del Sol.

Derek Adams and his squad flew back on Thursday afternoon after spending a few days training at the highly-acclaimed Marbella Football Centre.

It is a regular haunt for clubs around Europe – Liverpool had been over there the week before.

Plymouth did the same last February on the way to winning promotion from League Two.

And defender Sonny Bradley, who persuaded chairman James Brent to fund another sunshine trip, is hoping history can repeat itself this season.

Bradley’s header at Oxford clinched Plymouth’s fifth victory on the bounce before they left. That win took them above City on goal difference and within a point of the top six.

Bradley said: “We aren’t going to down tools. We have got no time for that now.

“We can see something special happening here and we are not going to throw it away.

“With 12 games to go, it’s time to press on and get a play-off place.

“We have played Blackburn, Shrewsbury and Oxford, all difficult (games), but when you have got the momentum and confidence we have, it’s going to be very hard to beat us.”

Plymouth’s record over the past two months has been incredible. Since being knocked out of the FA Cup at Valley Parade, they have won ten out of 14 league games and lost only once.

And it has not been a case of star man Graham Carey single-handedly winning matches.

The 11 goals they have scored in the current winning burst have come from eight different scorers.

Adams, who has won 65 times since joining Argyle in the summer of 2015, expects to have defender Oscar Threlkeld back in his squad after missing the Oxford game through illness.