Baker joins Plymouth Parkway on loan

Young goalkeeper Zak Baker is joining Plymouth Parkway on loan.

The 19-year-old, who in April signed a new one-year deal to remain a Pilgrim, will head across the Manadon roundabout to gain some more playing experience with our city neighbours.

Redruth-born Zak spent time on loan last season at Tiverton Town, for whom he played nearly 30 games. The loan at part-time side Parkway will allow Baker to train with Argyle for much of the week and link up with Parkway for training sessions and matches.

Parkway play in the Southern League Premier Division South, and are gearing up for their new season, with manager Chris McPhee having taken over at Bolitho Park in the summer. The Parkway squad includes a large number of former Argyle young pros and apprentices.

Hardly seems that much of a step up than playing for Tivvy last season. Not sure how he's going to get the experience to make it as a league player if he's going to spend his second season as a pro playing at Parkway!

Flat_Track_Bully wrote:

Hardly seems that much of a step up than playing for Tivvy last season. Not sure how he's going to get the experience to make it as a league player if he's going to spend his second season as a pro playing at Parkway!

He clearly ain’t being groomed as cooper was by the club ..I agree playing for parkway as a 2nd year pro is not looking good more of a side ways move to be released end of season to join a club at that kind of level otherwise the club would have invested in him like they did cooper if he was any good

RegGreen wrote:

Flat_Track_Bully wrote:

Hardly seems that much of a step up than playing for Tivvy last season. Not sure how he's going to get the experience to make it as a league player if he's going to spend his second season as a pro playing at Parkway!

He clearly ain’t being groomed as cooper was by the club ..I agree playing for parkway as a 2nd year pro is not looking good more of a side ways move to be released end of season to join a club at that kind of level otherwise the club would have invested in him like they did cooper if he was any good

I thought they would at least play him in the Torquay friendly and use that as an chance for him to show potential loaning clubs what he can do at a higher level than the Southern League. I was presuming the Torquay friendly was partly there to let Torquay (and maybe some other sides) have a look at some of our youths.