Gillingham Football Club

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Turns out it was a carbon copy of last season's result when they faced each other in April 2019. the mariners opened the score in the seventh minute through harvey rogers with a brilliant strike from about 30 yards out it could have been two when charles vernon's shot takes a wicked deflection but jill's keeper ollie wright makes a good save jill did find an equalizer on the 37th minute through ronan hale finding some space and putting the ball past on russian christy pym to take his tally up to six for the season Ten minutes into the second half, things took a turn for the worse when Armani Little was trying to pull Kieran Green back to ask him questions about his beautiful moustache and referee Sam Mullall points to the spot.

And yeah, I mean, it was just a really flat performance.

And yes, they had a couple of moments going forward, but defensively, I don't think the work rate was necessarily there necessarily.

And, you know, I think it's the third goal in particular that really frustrated me, because I believe that was like a three-on-five, where the Gillingham defence had just left on their own.

The midfield are kind of there watching them, just like, oh, look, there's half of Grimsby's team.

There did seem to be a bit of aggro between Mike Fondop and Callum Kavanagh, his teammate after full-time, but Fondot managed to get on the score sheet to get, you'd have to say, a deserved point for the Latics.

I also need to mention Grimsby, who got back to winning ways after a 4-1 win at Gillingham.

They managed to beat Gillingham 4-1 at Priestfield last season, and they repeated the trick on Saturday.

A word as well for Northampton.

who are out of the bottom two after beating Colchester 2-0.

There shouldn't be many surprises for Craig and his team come Tuesday night.

No, definitely not, you know, and it just goes, that spine of that team that we've been talking about there, you know, Dominic Samuel, he's a million pound player when he was at Blackburn, you know, and, you know, he spent time at Gillingham as well, and another one, Jake Hessenthaler, you know, again, he's a local lad, isn't he, you know, from the Medway towns, and, you know, we know the type of player his dad, Andy Hessenthaler, was for Gillingham and Watford before those years, you know, he was a proper... and Jake Hessenthaler has followed that mantle.

He had experience in the Football League with Grimsby as well.

yeah you know experience there but then you know they've got the likes of ollie box and gene kennedy that have come in as well you know they've been impacting games probably not only box not so much but definitely gene gene kennedy you know he got got a good goal um down at tunbridge when they won that game down there um yeah and you know it's just getting those sort of experienced players and those younger legs as such you know to to be your focal point going forward and get the goals and you know they're certainly performing at the moment i mean even the fact that they've played less games than everybody else, I think they're still the top scorers in the league now, or certainly up there, so it's certainly a formula that's working for them at the moment, and like we've said, just like the team and players individually, especially strikers, you hit a purple patch and everything goes for you, and they go in from all angles, don't they, when you're in that Rich Fader form, and that's the wave they're riding at the moment, but as I say, It's going to be interesting for them going forward because they've got a couple of tough games coming up.

50 minutes? Yeah.

Well, actually, I think in total, it's been like, he came on at halftime against Gillingham and he played, what, 20 in the trophy? So, yeah, I kind of go from a, from a Rico Brown perspective.

we've got a final trophy match and we've got an FA Cup match, which if you go, I know this is limited game time, but I equally go, he would have definitely played at the weekend now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, are we just trying to get people to play a high style of football, high-intensity style of football, where actually the bodies aren't up for it? Because like you said, like even Ainsworth said himself, Eli King was a player.

If he hadn't done his ACL, he wouldn't be joining League Two Gillingham.

So why are you trying to get him to play a high-intensity style of football, which is potentially going to make it even riskier for him to go do some proper damage, which it sounds like he's already done?

Why are we bringing Eli King, as Alan here says, with Dak and King, who apparently are too good for League Two, barring the injuries, why are we bringing them down to a level which is more physical and more demanding?

But maybe try supporting your players and your team.

Because that one, he's got a blue shirt on and I'll support him.

Because I'm a Gillingham supporter.

And yes, I'm going to question you if you're out there screaming and shouting at Armani Litton and calling him every name under the sun.

Good week for the Mariners really, wasn't it? I think we all would have taken four points before the week started.

2-2 at Rochdale on Tuesday night, a game we probably should have won and seen out but a much better performance and a switch in formation I think left us feeling slightly more optimistic off the back of those four defeats and then despite me actually being about as far away from Gillingham as you can get, currently in Bamburgh in Northumberland I managed to catch the game yesterday and it was a really good watch, wasn't it? 4-1 to Town.

Kept the same shape as Tuesday night with a sort of 3-4-3 and Town took the lead with an absolute rocket from Harvey Rogers after seven or eight minutes and it really kind of set the tone.

The time we were on top for a while, but then Gillingham came back into it and got an equaliser.

A sort of nice inside ball from McLeary and finished by the striker.

Maybe as a result of that slightly fragile left wing area.

Roger's goal, my goodness, what a strike from him and we've seen him do it before but...

Brilliant to see that going.

There's been a bit of criticism for it, but it's important that we all stay quite balanced, you know, and quite consistent, don't get too high, don't get too low, and hopefully we'll end up in that top three come the end of the season.

Apart from the goals on the scoreboard, though, that was just a game the same as against Colchester, against Crawley, against Gillingham.

We could list them all out.

Yeah, and you're hoping it's a...

We've not done the, uh, League Two results.

We've, uh, got, uh, uh, Mr Mandeville coming up to have a chat in a minute.

So quickly while he comes up, we've got Bristol Rovers nil, Swindon Town nil, Cheltenham Town one, Newport County nil, Northampton Town two, Colchester United nil, Barnet one, Oldham Athletic one, Crawley Town one, Tranmere Rovers one, Exeter City two, Fleetwood Town one, Gillingham one, Grimsby Town four, Rochdale nil, Accrington Stanley five, Rotherham United three, Shrewsbury three.

It was 2-0 to Rotherham, then 3-2 to Shrewsbury, so Rotherham scored late on to equalize.