Eli King

But given the result we had against York last week, I think just Getting back on the horse and making sure we didn't suffer back-to-back defeats was really important for the morale of the team.

But the most difficult thing for me is obviously Eli King not being there.

I think if Eli King is out for a long period of time, which it looks like it will be, I think where I expect us to finish or where I think we might be finished, I think that drops that original place down by probably two or three if Eli King's not there.

Because I think he's that important.

We don't have another player in there who can run the game like he can.

And does that importance on, on Robbie McKenzie's shoulders get heightened? Because we have got players still getting back to fitness.

Eli King, we don't know what the severity of that injury is gonna be.

Robbie's almost been kind of the constant in there, not in terms of maybe performances this year, but in terms of experience-

Mm

And it's, it really is risk versus reward again, so at the moment because, you know, you could throw somebody in there who's perhaps, you know, 75, 80% fit, and they could, they could go on and have a worldie of a game and, and, and bring home the three points as-

Yeah

... as Eli King did, or it can go the other way and they can be completely...

The game can either pass them by, or they could, you know, recur a, recur an injury, and that is really the last thing we want.

A few things went against them.

There were injuries in the first half to Will Goodwin and Eli King.

I really do with my fingers crossed that Eli King's one in particular isn't serious because he has already become a big player for Gillingham.

He's also had a serious injury in the past, so fingers crossed that's not too bad.

And then of course, there was the red card towards the start of the second half for Zane Alboros.

Obiero and Goodwin, both injured, both came off.

Eli King and Lamin Silla both came off the bench.

Now, Silla is a loanee from Nottingham Forest who they bought from Olympiacos, who started the game on the weekend and looks... lively really lively Eli King came off the bench and was magnificent in that game got an assist was arguably man of the match it also meant we saw a change of system where Hale and Goodwin have been playing up front in like some little and large combo they ended up going to a lone striker role with basically two tens kind of kind of spewing off into wide areas off the off the target man and that's really seemed to work basically since the substitutions the personnel change and the system change, Gillingham have scored, what, eight goals Nine unanswered goals.

9-0 since that moment.

So, maybe.