PAUL STURROCK could soon be linking up again with his ex-Plymouth Argyle managerial colleagues Kevin Summerfield and John Blackley.

Blackley was Sturrock's defensive co-ordinator at Plymouth and previously worked with him at St Johnstone and Dundee United.

Summerfield was assistant manager to Sturrock at the Devon club and was appointed caretaker boss when Saints appointed the former Scottish international as Gordon Strachan's replacement in early March.

Speculation was rife at the time that Blackley and Summerfield would follow Sturrock to St Mary's.

But Argyle chairman Paul Stapleton said that Saints counterpart Rupert Lowe had given his word that neither of them would be 'tapped' up before the 2003/04 season ended.

Now, though, current Argyle boss Bobby Williamson was today due to meet up with his former assistants Jim Clark and Gerry McCabe.

Clark and McCabe worked with Williamson at Hibernian and Kilmarnock.

Clark and McCabe had been in caretaker charge at Hibs since Williamson's departure, their stint ending with a 4-1 defeat at Livingston on Saturday.

If agreements are reached, the duo will replace Summerfield and Blackley at Home Park - freeing them to link up with Sturrock, pictured, again.

Paul Sturrock has been voted top boss in the Second Division for 2003/04 by his peers.

He was voted the best in the division by members of the League Managers Association, even though he left Plymouth with 12 games of the league season remaining. It was Sturrock's second divisional LMA award in three seasons - he won the Third Division prize for leading Argyle to the title in 2001/02.

Sturrock received his award at the LMA dinner in Nottingham last night.