Having won just once in their last five games, a win was well and truly needed to keep the Yellows from slipping back into the relegation mire.

Chris McPhee made one change from the side that lost at home to Dorchester Town, with new signing Reece Thompson making his first start back at Bolitho.

There were early warning signs from Gosport who had a couple of attempts to threaten Alex Rutter’s goal.

A vicious volley from outside of the box from Bradley Tarbuck and a glancing header Daniel Wooden both fell wide of the far post – had the volley been slightly more accurate, Rutter would have been left stranded.

This sparked Parkway into life, and they came ever so close to taking the lead. Love-Holmes cut in from the left wing onto his right foot and was inches away from finding the top right corner.

The home side came close again on the 17^th minute mark, but Thompson failed to apply the finishing touch to Tom Dean’s pinpoint low ball into the box.

The half chances were coming, but Parkway were missing the killer touch needed to take the lead.

This was summed up when Love-Holmes curled in a smart ball into the box which was met by Hall, but it fell awkwardly for the midfielder and he side-footed his effort over the bar from close range ensuring the first half ended goalless.

After having produced next to nothing since their active opening 10 minutes, Gosport came close to opening the scoring in style.

Within five passes the away side made their way from the edge of their box, into Parkway’s and in a similarly to Thompson’s chance, Wooden was millimetres away from poking home the opener.

It took time, but the scoring was finally opened by Parkway in the 72^nd minute.

Love-Holmes was played in behind the defensive line and forced Adam Parkes into a rare save, but the rebound fell kindly to Hall who buried the chance making it 1-0 to Plymouth Parkway.

It was a quickfire double for the Yellows as Love-Holmes then effectively sealed the win, leaping high at the back post and heading home a looping cross from Dean into the bottom left corner for 2-0.

The win has moved Parkway up to 16^th in the table, six points clear of 19^th placed Frome Town and puts them five points behind next weeks opponents Bracknell Town.