Young Sturrock on road to fitness
The former Dundee United hit-man is likely to put pressure on the likes of Marino Keith, Nathan Lowndes, Micky Evans and Ian Stonebridge in the striking department after making a positive impact this season as a substitute.
The son of Pilgrims manager Paul, Sturrock has been to a succession of doctors in the last year, trying to find out the extent of his groin problem.
With the problem now identified, Sturrock senior believes his son will be a major goalscoring threat, once he is fully match fit.
"Now he's got to the bottom of this, there's been a huge weight lifted off his shoulders," Sturrock told the club's official website. "He's up for it, ready to go.
"Mentally, he's relaxed a bit more because they've got to the bottom of this.
"He's seen four specialists, had an operation, one person thought it was a hernia - the whole gamut. It's been a difficult ten months for him.
"His influence coming off the bench has been second to none. He's the one who always seems to come on and do something that changes the game or puts life back into the team.
"He's quite valuable that way, although I think he would hope not to be tagged a 'supersub'.
"Once he comes back into training and keeps that kind of standard, he'll put a real presence on the other quartet."
Meanwhile, the Pilgrims boss added that he feared a mumps epidemic could have broken out at Home Park after defender Matthew Villis was confined to his home with the highly-contagious virus apon his return from the club's Christmas party in Edinburgh last weekend.
Sturrock was more concerned after discovering that some of his squad have never contracted the mumps before in their lives, thus prompting the club to take precaution and keep Villis at home until he is over his illness.
