Brad came over for the Sheff United game and has been here since. Brad & Shannon both at the match today and In the factory after the game.
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Therealwaldo
Vital Squad Member
You can’t pass and do it at speed. Right. I’ll have to review my view of football then.
Therealwaldo
Vital Squad Member
They must have been well impressed.
Gills93
Vital Squad Member
I think you’re right, if you’re trying to keep possession you won’t see a side getting bodies forward and going back to front quickly, it will be a progression through the quarters. I think this is where some are confusing urgency and lack of passion etc.
PuB
Vital 1st Team Regular
The first half had no passion or urgency, we upped our game considerably in the second half but didn’t get a second goal which would have likely killed them off.
Oh how I long for a game where we score early and then settle in to the way we can play for an entire match.
Rob_b100
Vital 1st Team Regular
Get nibbles to explain it to you.
PuB
Vital 1st Team Regular
Yes, and that’s very strange. Why can’t we start the first half as we start the second?
Hampshiregills
Vital Youth Team
I had a 189 mile round trip today to watch the team I've supported since 1956. I was really expecting to see us at last scoring 3 or 4 goals in a game. To say I was disappointed would be a total understatement. No disrespect to FGR, but I feel cheated. There was no urgency in our play ....... no passion in the team ......... and no sense that the players were there for anything other than their wages. I used to live a 3 minute walk from Priestfield, but sometimes it's easier to live where I do in Hampshire.
PuB
Vital 1st Team Regular
I don’t think that’s entirely fair, in the second half we certainly upped the tempo. But I do appreciate the frustration at a performance against a team we should have beaten.
Their temporary manager looks pretty chuffed with their performance!
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........ And I was let down again, not just by the scoreline, but by the manner in which we failed to perform.
I'll give full credit to FGR for the way they started, the way that they chased about and closed us down quickly and the way they held such a high line defensively.
I don't think it was a case of us not wanting it enough it's just that we weren't good enough on the day. Our tempo didn't match FGR - except for the 10 minutes just before our goal - which would have been fine if, after each steady build up, we found a pass rather than resorting to an aimless hoof.
Nobody played particularly badly but nobody performed as well as we know they can. An all round 'not quite good enough' 5/10 showing from everyone.
The only upside was that, in the last 10 minutes when only one team looked likely to score, they didn't.
inCanndescent
Vital Youth Team
Whereabouts in Hampshire are you living? I'm a season ticket holder living in Yateley.
Hessy8
Vital Newbie
I don’t agree that we don’t create anything. I had the unusual angle today of watching the game pretty much from the touch line as took the kids in the Medway stand and was in the block in the corner( usually in the Rainham End) . We played a fair few balls low at pace into the six yard box and absolutely nobody was anywhere near them. Nadesan when he came on was awful. Misplaced a 5 yard pass and it went downhill from there. What’s the point being quick if you get on the end of nothing? I appreciate our problems run deeper than Nadesan being sht, but he really is. Nichols seems to be a shadow of the player he was last year so he’s no longer an option. Hawkins is (somehow) our best centre forward. We’ve got a bunch of good midfielders on paper. Our defence also should be alright . I’m not sure how Morris has never got a game since being our POTY last year. Club does my head in.
Archiepoptart
Vital 1st Team Regular
It's bloody hard getting up at stupid o'clock only to be sent immediately back to sleep by a lackluster Gills performance.
They make it very testing to be a Gills fan sometimes
They make it very testing to be a Gills fan sometimes
Wallace63
Vital Youth Team
Sometimes?
Solent Knight
Vital Squad Member
Living in Hampshire makes it an easy decision to make and not bother making the effort to attend anymore. Backed by the majority of posts on here most weeks reporting on the shite their watching this season is hardly likely to encourage me to make the effort to travel that distance to watch a lazy bunch of overpaid talentless ****s.
The club gave it all the big talk at the start of the season, ''wer'e gonna give it a right ol go'' the sleeping giants bollocks, blah blah blah.
Nothing much changes at Gillingham and it still has'nt really and until some decent quality players are brought in nothing will change. Talk of promotion is a nonsence if your incapable of scoring some goals and this team will not go anywhere without better players. Talk is cheap and how serious are the club at getting out of league two?
Wer'e not a bad side but we certainly arn't a good promotion looking side.
Just a bang average league two club going nowhere imo.
GillsBluenose
Vital Football Hero
Passing sideways and backwards, and to the keeper, even at speed does not actually get you up the pitch any quicker, funnily enough.
