Subs  Eastwood, Smith Gnahoua, Wood, Pyke, Andrews, Eisa

No Rose and Gave keeps his place as captain.

One change for the Gills so they’ve all struggled out of their sick beds
Quelle surprise

Quite pleased with that.

Quoted from buckstown

One change for the Gills so they’ve all struggled out of their sick beds
Quelle surprise

Well that’s caught me completely off guard… 🫤

Some of their players might not be 100% fit.

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One change for the Gills so they’ve all struggled out of their sick beds
Quelle surprise

According to JT, he was told by Robbie Stockdale this afternoon that sickness was rife in the team, Don't shoot the messenger.

end to end start, we look good

Superb!! 1-0 Town, great play

Get in...0-1

Get in! Wilson

Get in!!!

Great goal!

Gillingham move the ball fast.   Town doing well though.  Obikwu putting himself around a bit.  What a goal.  Lovely from Green and Holohan our midfielders who can't pass a ball

YES 1 0 up
Wison you beauty

Superb

WILSON!!!!

Great header by Green to start all that off, great team goal and effort by Wilson.

Damn 1-1 short lived!!

1-1, this is going to be some game

1-1 now

FFS. Hulme's having a stinker today. They're pulling him apart.

Damn it.

1  1   enough said, Hume was wrong side of his man

Great goal from Town poor defending for theirs.

Typical.... we take the lead against a team that can't score.....

Two minutes of celebration - it was fantastic

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1  1   enough said, Hume was wrong side of his man

Hume doing an impression of Glennon there :(

“Definite foul on the Grimsby player, but who cares, it’s 1-1’’  commentators aren’t biased are they?

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Great goal from Town poor defending for theirs.

No doubt Gillingham will be saying the same but the other way around.

A lot of their ads are blue and white so the players blend in.  

Hopefully the equaliser is from a dying hamster - and Town can capitalise on Gillingham’s reported ill health

Lincoln 3 up in 20 minutes against Brizzle. Certainly on a roll

>:( off the line for them

How did Rodgers keep that out?

That was a yellow. FFS

Tharme gets a yellow and their guy who man handles Wilson doesn't.

Frenetic game.  You'd never think Town are in the position they're in though.  So different to a few games ago.  Body language is more positive.

Just run across a player and get the free kick. The Gills are obviously phased.

After the last runs of games, I thought we might be in with a chance of a good ref. Sorry to say I'm disappointed.

We look a bit edgy

Colchester 0-1 Walsall

Wing backs struggling a bit today and we seem a bit overloaded in the wide areas.

Officiating diabolical yet again.

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Colchester 0-1 Walsall

😀

FGR 0-1 Sutton

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Colchester 0-1 Walsall

Wouldn’t have crossed the line if they hadn't shortened the pitch 😂

Wow Sutton winning too

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FGR 0-1 Sutton

😀

FGR & Colchester Losing
Come on Town get something today

Very poor ref, again, Mullarkey gets flattened and their guy isn't booked.

Other results going our way at the moment. A victory today would put us above Salford

Missus , who doesn't usually watch is getting frustrated cos it's not a fair game

We're not taking our chances

Obikwu nearly, missed a good chance

Bloody hell Gav just hit it.

Thought be should've hit that first time

Though he was once again good for our goal I’m amazed how Holohan can’t it the target there, shocking for someone with that level of experience

Obikwu just seems a bit aloof today but concerned by how vulnerable we look down both flanks. Neither Clifton or Hume are stopping crosses.

Not a bad half.  Gills looks good but Town doing fine.  They are getting the decisions (just).  Wish we'd get the ball in the danger area quicker. Waiting for the perfect cross / shot.

HT's not too bad ...

Colchester 0-1 Walsall
FGR 0-1 Sutton
Gillingham 1-1 Town

Done well there first half. Let’s keep pushing for a winner . Results going our way too

Not sure how their player has come out of the half with no booking after we got two players booked. He's warned the same player a million times since the first minute.

IMO, Wilson is a very good player, one I would love to see have a good run in League 2 with us next season.

Probably should be 2-1 up after the Obikwu and Hollohan chances and that Lapslie should at least have a yellow. But still, we continue to show with our recent battling qualities that we're better than our league position.

Obikwu started well but lost his composure a little bit.  Let's hope DA can steady him a bit.

Decent 1st half. Scored a good team goal. We've had so good moments of play going forward, but Gillingham just keep pinching the ball off us at the last moment.

We need to work out at half time who is marking who because until we do Gillingham will continue to put pressure on us.

excrement ref is excrement once again, Tharmes yellow was harsh, and they should have had atleast 2.

Hopefully we can pick it up a little in the second half and grab a winner and all other results continue to go our way.

Obikwu could be distracted by his parent club getting to the semi finals of the FA Cup - hopefully DA can either re- focus his mind or take him off.

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Obikwu just seems a bit aloof today but concerned by how vulnerable we look down both flanks. Neither Clifton or Hume are stopping crosses.

Yep, pretty much as I see it. When they’re in possession our wing backs are often really deep giving their wing backs loads of space to get forward and time to pick out an accurate cross. They look to have a threat aerially up front and concerned about them feeding of a knock down.

Wilson looking very good and sharp but maybe second half needs Pyke to come on to give more assistance as Okiwu struggling a bit although his closing down of their players is excellent.

Better game than I thought it would be they are relatively decent .

It's just refreshing we are now always in games and with a chance of a result at half time .

But for some woeful decision making we’d probably be winning this game, Obikwu looks like an academy player again today after a good few weeks. Holohan had a lovely assist but he’s followed on from Tuesday with multiple poor decisions in good areas.

Gillingham look pretty decent, going to need a big half to get something out of it.

Colchester equalise 1 - 1

Eisa and Gnahoua on

why am i getting Gillingham comentry whts happened to humberside or is it just me

Colchester missed a pen.

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Colchester missed a pen.

Good

It's about time Walsall started getting their act together. They put six past us but then lose to FGR and are now only level with Colchester. Come on you saddlers, show us what you got.

You can hear our fans, there in good voice again

Some lovely build up play from Town.  

We're getting a battering at the moment, they should be 2-1 up

What was Hume's yellow card for????

Having a go at the lino

We've completely reverted back to how we were a fee weeks ago. None existant midifeld, exposed back 4, lone striker with no support. Todays subs haven't worked at all today

Quoted from davmariner

Colchester missed a pen.

Very surprised Akinde didn't take it

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What was Hume's yellow card for????

Giving the lino a fearful earful pal.

3 for us none for them, says it all really. Just like last week

Eisa is useless at tracking back n putting a tackle in, substitutions have really hindered us unfortunately

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We've completely reverted back to how we were a fee weeks ago. None existant midifeld, exposed back 4, lone striker with no support. Todays subs haven't worked at all today

Surprised he brought both of them on as neither is a grafter and with Green and Holohan struggling we are looking a bit exposed.

We’re all over the place.

We've fallen apart here

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Eisa is useless at tracking back n putting a tackle in, substitutions have really hindered us unfortunately

Yeh the fizz has gone out of our attack

We pass to the opposition.

Thought we seen the back of this type of performance.  Subs haven't worked at all.

Gav subbed again, I thought he was doing ok today. Andrews comes on.

I always fear for us defensively when Eisa is on the pitch.

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I always fear for us defensively when Eisa is on the pitch.

Under no pressure and slices it into the stand, giving a corner away.

We should be 3/4 down now . Eisa and Gnouha just don’t do it for me at all

We're lucky again, all at sea defensively at the moment

Ogie's a solid player.

Hopefully the ‘ill’ Gillingham players - who missed training - as reported by a Kent newspaper - will succumb to the Grimsby fit players.
Seem to remember Gillingham we’re lucky against us in the first game of the season - it’s our turn
ITM

I think Mularkey's had a good game.

Finally, a yellow.  Clever play by Andrews

Bloody hell, he actually booked a Gillingham player

Wow stop the press, ref gives the Gills a yellow

Lapslie booked for his 64th foul

Nother yellow for the Gills.

We’re not as bad as 6 games ago . Gillingham are a good side

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We should be 3/4 down now . Eisa and Gnouha just don’t do it for me at all

Same

This is not fun to watch.  Longest half ever.

That was really dumb by Green - absolute donkey that lad.

Idiotic by green

Well that was a rubbish free kick for them I'm glad to say.

Colchester draw and Sutton win.

A point very much well earned, that was a brutal second half

That'll do

Would have settled for a point beforehand but at half time I thought we can go on and win this but those  changes destroyed us and we're rather lucky to come away with a point in the end. Tharme MOM match again.

A draw is a good result for us and continues our undefeated run going.

Take that, away point at a place we’ve not been great at - unbeaten run continues.

Can’t think of a game were we’ve been in so many decent positions and had zero quality. Like I say though good away point.

A good away point and other results going our way.

Fantastic point that, great performances but Tharme and Thompson the stand outs for me again.

Rode our luck there.  Disappointed that Eisa didn't pull the trigger a couple of times. I'll take a point.  

Good point . The run continues. Rose back for Wrexham

Get in! Very decent point

We'll take that for sure. Had to ride our luck a bit but it's a decent follow up to the win on Tuesday.

1-1. Good point, painful to watch at times but an away point is still good and unbeaten again.

Would have taken a point today no matter what the others have done . All we need to do is keep gaining a few points as games are running out now

I thought town battled and deserved that point, another battling performance. Well done Town  

Another point earned and to think the Gumps lost at home.

We are in the box seat now...

Tharme and Thompson are making such a massive difference to us, Hume was a bit hit n miss, Gav tries too hard almost, Cartwright commanding on crosses but think he could've come out quicker for the goal tbh.
Wilson run his socks off, scored a good goal, all in all a satisfactory result, just need to keep Moneybags FC at arms length next weekend now.

Thompson & Tharme have made a huge difference.

Fantastic hard thought point.
2months ago, we lose that 3 maybe 4-1.

Very, very good point, that. Unbeaten in 6, just the 3 conceded and up to 9th in the form table. Didn’t see that coming after Donny.

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.

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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.

A good day for us today. We have increase our advantage over FGR and maintained our advantage over Colchester despite the fact that we were away while they were both at home.

Given the April fixtures, which are much harder for our rivals, I think they really needed to get ahead of us this month. That looks very unlikely now.

If Salford don’t win tomorrow they will be right in our sights too.

Next week it’s Wrexham, who have the same number of points as MKD, though the vast majority of them from home games. I think we can win that one.

Really decent result and more evidence of our defensive resilience.

I thought the changes at half time made us worse and put us under more pressure, but we weathered it mightily.

A Sutton win is a great result for us. Just need to keep the points ticking over and we will be fine.

We'll take that and move on. Let's have a rest and give it a real go against an inconsistent Wrexham. But Lord I'm not asking for a decent ref, that's too much too ask, I'll take a half decent one for this one please!

From somewhere and I credit DA for it we have a bit of team spirit and fight , still a bit to do but we should be alright

Tired performance from a team that has worked its balderdash off for over a month now. Artell decided to go for blood after half time and it didn't quite pay off. It made us easier to break down and Gills had alot more success. That said, Artell did make further  changes and we earnt a well deserved point.

Thompson and Tharme were colossal yet again with Doug for my money just edging it.

Well done town

Quoted from buckstown

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

Yep. That was also a warm, sunny Summer’s day when they were top of the league.

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Tired performance from a team that has worked its balderdash off for over a month now. Artell decided to go for blood after half time and it didn't quite pay off. It made us easier to break down and Gills had alot more success. That said, Artell did make further  changes and we earnt a well deserved point.

Thompson and Tharme were colossal yet again with Doug for my money just edging it.

Well done town

This can’t be understated. They must be absolutely shattered.

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This can’t be understated. They must be absolutely shattered.

Good to have the break from mid-week games. Hopefully we’ll get some players back. Rose especially but also Vernam.

Quoted from buckstown

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

As far as I'm aware we had 525 fans there, 100 more than they said and 118 more than their 407. Also, our fans appeared to drown out their's for most of the match, a credit to them all. I hope they all have a safe journey home.

Quoted from buckstown

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

Our support boosted by our Belgian friends from Aalst - great effort

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Our support boosted by our Belgian friends from Aalst - great effort

Was chatting over a beer in the pub tonight, does anyone know where the connection with Aalst comes from?

Always good to see them

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Was chatting over a beer in the pub tonight, does anyone know where the connection with Aalst comes from?

Always good to see them

I think they literally googled an English club of similar size who play in black and white! I’m certain I heard that.