January Fixtures - Big Month For Gillingham

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January is A Huge Month For Gillingham and A Month I believe will define Gillingham's Season One Way or Another, below are Gillingham's Five League Fixtures For January.......

H Oxford United.
A Oldham Athletic
H AFC Wimbledon
A Sheffield United.
H Shrewsbury Town.

Looking at these five fixtures, Sheffield United away is by far our most difficult league fixture, but it is the matches against Oxford United, Oldham Athletic, AFC Wimbledon and Shrewsbury Town which will tell us if Gillingham are going to mount a playoff push if we get a very good points return from these matches, we will consolidate a solid mid-table position, or, we're nervously looking over our shoulder after a bad run of results, if Gillingham can start January by picking up three points today against Oxford United, then that would be fantastic.

January is also a huge month in-terms of transfers, as The January Transfer Window is now open and this gives Justin Edinburgh the chance to strengthen area's of the squad he feels he needs to strengthen for the second half of the season, hopefully, with 1-2 intelligent signings, and a good run of results, then January could well be the start of a very good run for The Gills - well, I say that with a high level of optimism anyway.

 
Realistically, to mount a play off push we need to be picking up an average of 2 points a match between now and the end of the season. With 22 games to go that would give us an end of season total of 74, which based on last season would have got us 6th/7th.

I see nothing to suggest that we are capable of being that consistent based on the first 24 matches. We could of course do a "barnsley" but for me we will need to make a couple of shrewd acquisitions in the transfer window to even have a chance of the play offs.

So as FOM has said, January is likely to be a defining month for us as to whether we are looking up or down for the final 3 months of the season. 3 points today will be a step in the right direction
 
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