Gillingham (H) Match Thread

Town unchanged from Newport!
Same starting XI and bench for the Mariners from the Newport game! If it is not broken, do not fix it is clearly the motto for Hurst who will be hoping for the same levels here as Town go for their first home win in the league!

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Crikey
Who would have thought with 7 subs we still have unused talent
We might not get promoted but it’s one hell of a squad for L2

Really miffed I can't be there tonight after doing the wild goose chase at the weekend!
Hoping for a big performance from the boys
UTM

He'd of been mad outside of an injury to change the team after our last performance

Gyles Brandreth: Town have won their last 3 matches under the reign of a King (8-0 on aggregate).

[Although Town only lost 3 out of their first 38 matches under Liz II]

Great quiz questions!

There’s some talented players sat in the stands tonight, a great problem to have.

The writing looks on the wall for a couple of them mind you.

Did ya team news, the big news tonight is they’ve got a new carpet in the Blundell…

Quoted from pontoonlew

There’s some talented players sat in the stands tonight, a great problem to have.

The writing looks on the wall for a couple of them mind you.

Which ones do you think?

Commentary on Freeview 721 and Live on Mariners TV

Quoted from chaos33

Which ones do you think?

Fairly obvious JMD is one

Quoted from Hagrid

Fairly obvious JMD is one

Yep, Pepple another who should probably be worried, Pearson too.

Cropper & Amos will also be needing an injury to somebody to even have a shot at the 18.

Anybody got a picture on Mariners TV

Got a picture & sound but the camera is very blurry/shaky tonight. Nothing wrong with the stream as the graphics are crisp.

Beautifully observed minute of silence

Couldn't see it, no picture.

I've got no sound or picture when  I go onto video. It says it's against broadcast rules. I'm very drunk off. I pay monthly for audio so i have that on but that isn't the point.

Quoted from BenBB

Got a picture & sound but the camera is very blurry/shaky tonight. Nothing wrong with the stream as the graphics are crisp.

Are you using VPN or out of the country?

Horrendous goalkeeping!

Lovely tap in from Taylor there. It was very nice of the Gillingham players to keep kicking the  ball out of their keepers own hands

Get in ,Dodgy keeper hehe

Get in 1-0 Taylor.

Ffs!!!!!
Just got it working eventually and missed the goal. Can't even rewind!!!

He spilled it!! Lovely tap in for Taylor! UTM

Quoted from lukeo

Ffs!!!!!
Just got it working eventually and missed the goal. Can't even rewind!!!

How did you get it working?

Yess Town

Quoted from DB

How did you get it working?

Sent you a PM

1-1, been coming a bit, aside from our goal we’ve offered very little

Only scored 1 all season. well done Town you were bound to give them 1 tonight!

An equally rubbish goal!

Phew Crocombe is alright.

Understand because of recent events, but even so atmosphere sounds really flat tonight.

To be fair everything is very stable. We were brilliant at Newport, today it's like a whole new 11 bar maybe Richardson.
If we can get to half time at 1-1 PH and Doigy can have a stern word

Quoted from BenBB

Understand because of recent events, but even so atmosphere sounds really flat tonight.

The excrement equaliser really killed the atmosphere

Sounds dead and we aren’t doing much

Decent ref for a change  

Weak psychological response to taking the lead. Retreated instead of staying on the front foot, allowing Gillingham to dictate since then. Morris and Holohan not at the races

Much better the last few minutes.

We’ve got Green and Hunt if those two don’t raise their game. They’ll know they could be hooked, so let’s hope they up it.

Gillingham have pressed well, Holohan and Morris have struggled with it. They're causing us lots of issues from set pieces, although I thought Crocombe took one in the face before their goal.

It's absolutely dead, people aren't even clapping when we do something good. Very odd vibe.

I still think we’ll win but Morris, Holohan, Clifton and Efete have been absolutely dreadful.

Feel for Richardson, he’s yet to receive one pass that matches his own endeavor.

HT...1-1

Didn't see much wrong with their disallowed goal if I'm honest.

Quoted from Chrisblor

It's absolutely dead, people aren't even clapping when we do something good. Very odd vibe.

Certainly coming across that way

A very ‘bity’ game. We seem to be trying too hard with the passing and players losing their footing. Thought Richardson looks good with very good feet. Nearly 60% of the possession doesn’t tell the true story.

We look average at the moment. 2nd half improvement coming up as Hursty and Doig will work their magic

Scunts losing (again)

That goal has really given Gillingham a boost. Before the goal it looked like we were really going to dominate, early 1st half goal seemed to cement that idea. Gillingham equalise and we've not been the same.

Gillingham clearly have a game plan press high and force the back 4,  Holohan and Morris to play any passes quickly and under pressure (so our usual average passing has turned really poor). At the same time they're marking Harry and Kiernan out if the game so we can't get the ball wide like we usually do.

Hurst just needs to give them a kick up the bottom and we need to be more clinical with our passes and not force anything  Gillingham only look a threat when we make an individual error.

Not a great half but we know we have more gears whereas I'm not sure Gillingham do. Efete, Holohan and Morris all having poor games but Richardson looks very good.

Encouraging thing is, we have lots of options from the bench to change things up.

Quoted from Chrisblor

It's absolutely dead, people aren't even clapping when we do something good. Very odd vibe.

Is the Ponny singing like usual (part of it anyway), or is it flat cos they aren't instigating it?  just wondered as the fans have been told not to stand and its not great trying to sing sat down its just not the same passion etc.

We'll be alright, we're kicking towards the Ponny 2nd half.

I see the phantom red crosser is at it tonight.

Quoted from promotion plaice

I see the phantom red crosser is at it tonight.

You can only do one , so there must be a few out there

Fewer Town fans than we have season ticket holders there tonight. That's mad

Better start by Town

Crowd getting into it again.

Quoted from promotion plaice

I see the phantom red crosser is at it tonight.

Its a bored Scunny fan. I've had 1 tonight celebrating us scoring and on one for sayung we've started the 2nd galf better

2 goals for Desi tonight as Halifax finally get going.

Crying out for a change off the bench. Too many off the pace tonight. Should see Warne and Hunt at least.

This could go either way.

Change badly needed.

What’s the attendance?

Clifton and Holohan off for me, Holohans not havibg the best of games and Harrys not in this game at all

Gills all over us, make a bloody substitution Hurst!!

Quoted from chaos33

Change badly needed.

What’s the attendance?

5960 I think

Both sides look tired and out of ideas, really need some fresh legs on and a new approach to put this game to bed. It's all been a bit boring the last 10 minutes.

Kieran and Efeti are dog

Refs a fu(king joke

Here we go.

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Refs a fu(king joke

O no he's not, jokes are funny and he's not, he's sh!t

Come on Town, final push!

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Refs a fu(king joke

He's the only reason we aren't losing after disallowing two goals for them.

Saved by the ref.

Well that wasn’t much fun to watch .
I wish Hursty would let them off the leash a bit more at home and maybe make a few subs earlier

Utterly dire that. Too many passengers and none of the subs offered anything in their short time on the pitch.

Long time since I've seen such poor passing from us.

FT....1-1

Just shows how far we have come when we are disappointed with a draw against an established League One team last season.

Very poor performance but 3 wins, 3 draws and 1 lose after 7 games is a great start back in the league. I'm annoyed I spent £10 to watch online, feel sorry for those who went and sat in the cold

The good news is we are still on an unbeaten run. The bad news is that we weren't good tonight, so we move on to Colchester on Saturday who also drew 1-1 tonight.

Quoted from chipsandgravy

Long time since I've seen such poor passing from us.

Don’t know why you got a red x for that as I agree,the passing was awful tonight

That was shite.

I said last week that playing wingers who’s primary job appears to be to defend will work some weeks and won’t others, today it didn’t. Dreadful final ball from every single player on the pitch.

I’d be putting Cropper in, his throw alone will offer more than Efete will IMO.

At least we didn’t lose but we can’t afford to keep being this poor at home, it’s an away teams dream watching us offer so little going forward.

Very boring game, second half slowed to a crawl and when we got subs on we never seemed to get hold of the ball except a couple of half chances that had nobody to finish it. Gillingham will feel hard done by after having two goals written off for questionable decisions, we were just not good enough tonight. Having Saturday off seems to have done the team no favours in creating morale and energy for a game, after taking an early lead they took their foot off the gas and let them back in it then never really got going again.

Can probably write it off as an off day and hope they can deliver in the next game.

Well, after the euphoria of the Newport game that had us all excited and purring we had a real dogs non performance that had us all snoring. Don't think we could have complained if Gillingham nicked it which looked increasingly likely as full time approached. Can't even say that the Gills came to shut up shop because they didn't. Pluses were Richardson first half, Kiernan's work and skill rate even if he seems to be very Sousa like in his ability to not get it quite right most of the time. And Hunt's cameo which did help create a good chance. Other than that quite, quite uninspiring.
Oh well. Another point and another game undefeated... Just!

Crap game and poor performance but 6 unbeaten, just outside the play offs and 5 points ahead of title favourites Stockport with a game in hand. It was disappointing tonight especially after a good start but lots of reasons to be positive still.

Pretty poor. Noone stood out. Smith MOM again

Frustrating. Subs didnt do anything when they came on but feel they should have been on earlier

Those 5 or so players who didn’t make the squad will all have cause to speak to the manager and ask ‘when do I get my chance’? as there were many players below par. On the plus side - another point, unbeaten at home, good league position and haven’t lost despite the flat/lacklustre performance.

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Think we were lucky Gills second goal disallowed, but the other one was offside.

Credit to Gillingham, they got on top of the midfield and closed down our options very quickly while finding space down the channels on the counter.

But we were as poor as I've seen us this season, so many players just weren't at it. Glennon, Efete, Holohan, Morris and Clifton all looked slow and lethargic, Holohan in particular was very sloppy in possession.

Taylor, Richardson and Kiernan linked well at times and we still got into some promising positions. When Richardson went off, Taylor became more isolated and our threat disappeared, not sure what Hurst was thinking there.

In the end we were lucky not to lose it, so we'll take the point and hopefully improve for Saturday.

In the end it took a howler from their keeper for us to score, something isn't right with the way we set up in an attacking sense at home. It's not as if Gills just stuck 11 men behind the ball.

I'd like to have seen Orsi being brought on as sub. We did have a couple of crosses flash across the box, and if he's the natural goalscorer he's been billed as that seems to me what we are crying out for.

Yeah that was poor.

We looked lethargic in our running at times and Gills seemed to want it more. Passing was not great and we didn’t seem to find much of an attacking rhythm.

Richardson looked good with his feet but in reality barely got a kick whilst in a good position so was pretty much ineffective. Kiernan had a good game overall but final decision or ball was lacking. Holohan looked well off it and the subs did nothing of note. Taylor didn’t really get into the game and I was hoping we’d maybe try something different with Orsi coming on.

Everyone keeps banging on about it but not at least having JMD on tbe bench is plain wrong IMO. When he gets subbed on, he usually makes something happen, be it an assist or goal or at least taking on some players in good positions. No one who came on did that at all. Hurst had a real job on his hands with keeping the squad happy now.

Still, unbeaten since opening game and up there near the playoffs.

Poor stuff, happy with a point in the end because Gills looked more likely to win it. Not sure why it took so long for PH to make a change and their number 9 should've been sent off.

Reminded me of Hurst mark one performance. You would have thought we were the underdogs tonight. Struggled to string any passes together after 30 minutes. Substitutions far too late to make an impact. Changes were needed at half time not with 20 minutes to go. An awful game to watch, but a point nevertheless.

A game we should have put to bed when we we're 1-0 up. I'm a Hurst fan, but he should have made his substitutions at least 5-10 minutes earlier, as prolonging it helped Gillingham grow into the game more, at a time when they started getting more possession and chances. No real standout performances for me tonight though I thought Glennon did ok, and I know he's not everyone favourite but Kiernan never gave up fighting, though he seems to do the hard things easy, and then spoils it by fluffing the easy chances. Frustrated as its a game we could have won easily.