Match Thread Gillingham A

I think we'd all have taken a point before the game. Effectively 7 points above a relegation spot right now thanks to goal difference and still with a game in hand over FGR.

A few more wins ought to just about do it for us.

Can’t grumble with a point at Gillingham in our position. Unbeaten in 6 now is it? Incredible from two months ago.

This run of four tough games, starting with MKD is going much better than expected. 4 points from 2 is beyond what I thought we would get, and FGR now have to win 2 and draw 1 more than us to overtake us, with them only having 8 games left to do it.

Couldn’t really have hoped for better this week. 4 points from two promotion chasers and increasing the gap with the Veggies. Col Uwe have it all to do to overhaul us as well, plays Salford well in our sights.

5 points  behind Swindon with two games in hand too.

Quoted from ginnywings

This run of four tough games, starting with MKD is going much better than expected. 4 points from 2 is beyond what I thought we would get, and FGR now have to win 2 and draw 1 more than us to overtake us, with them only having 8 games left to do it.

I agree with you as I thought points from FGR and Sutton would be the only sure ones and a lucky point elsewhere. I don't know what the team and Artell have said behind doors but it is certainly working.

Happy with a point. We are getting better. This league is so unpredictable and every week there are results that look unlikely ‘on paper’. Notts are on an alarming slide and Swindon as well. We have to keep diggung in hard and collecting points by being steadfast and believing.  I think the lads are doing well now after that horrific spell in Jan and early Feb. Things are looking up. Gillingham, managed by Stephen Clemence, have been doing quite well, so ‘on paper’ they would have expected to win today.
I can recall how his late dad, Ray, played at BP for Scunthorpe in the early days of his career and we put six or seven past him. Ray later said that he thought that was his league career ended. As a mate off his I am glad that proved wrong, but GTFC has always been my team and I’m proud to be a Mariner.

From the Gills forum:

We've lost our record of taking higher away attendances to each of our opponents than anyone has brought to Priestfield this season. We took 407 to Grimsby, they've brought 425 to us. Fair play to them.

Thats a great effort

It's been a good day a very good day result wise. Don't forget we will be at home next week and the others away? No-one can moan with today's outcome we didn't deserve more than a point...happy days

Really pleased with that point, thought we'd get all 3 wehebwe went ahead but lack of concentration allows them an immediate equaliser. Following that we discarded our hard to beat style for attacking substitutions and didn't really work, they had a number of good chances and if they weren't such an appallingly dreadful side in front of goal I think we're letting in at least a couple like we would have earlier in the season. As it is we get lucky and cling on and take a decent away point, with the Sutton/FG result and Colchester only getting a draw it's a really good result.

Teams below us begining to run out of games to run us down. Perhaps a good learning experience for Artell as well not to get ahead of himself, we're still very much at our best as a battling defensive 5 at the back side making us hard to break down.