Sturrock has warned that his new signings need to bed in quickly

Plymouth Argyle manager Paul Sturrock said he was pleased with his team's performance despite a 2-0 defeat at Reading on Saturday.

"I'm relatively pleased, if you can be pleased when you lose," said Sturrock.

"It's never okay when you lose a football game but there's things that you take out of a defeat and I've taken a lot of pluses," he added.

"There were things that gave me food for thought and gave me hope, including attitude and workrate of the players."

Five summer signings mean a new-look Argyle side will need time to gel, but Sturrock believes the process has begun.

"People are starting to understand each other and get a rapport with each other," he said.

"We've got a lot of hard work to be done: the fitness levels of some players who have come from other clubs are not to the standards we want, and there's a naivety to some of the players who have come from lower leagues.

"There's people who are forgetting each other's names and they have got to gel together very, very quickly," he added.