HerrLjunga
Vital 1st Team Regular
Gills are swiftly back in action tonight after a disheartening defeat to Mansfield on Saturday, opponents Grimsby make the long trip down from North Lincolnshire to Priestfield looking to bounce back from their own weekend defeat.
The Gills recent form has been positive, averaging two points a game across our last five despite losing to the Stags, while the Mariners for the same period are on a run of lose, win, lose, win, lose...ah. Here's hoping we can snap them out of that run tonight to send the romantics packing Priestfield home in a happy mood.
Neil Harris has mentioned mixing things up for tonight. Gills have maintained impressive consistency of team selections in recent weeks after a season of casting about for any sort of line-up that could try and get a result. However, alarm bells will have rung on Saturday as the midfield was frequently outfought and outflanked and some of our new arrivals will be champing at the bit to show what they can do from the off. What price a start for George Lapslie tonight?
Grimsby currently sit in 17th, nine points clear of us and will probably be safe for another season in League Two having only returned to League football last May after a brief dalliance with non-league. Paul Hurst's side also have several games in hand on surrounding teams as a result of their fantastic run in the FA Cup which has taken them to the Fifth Round, despatching Plymouth, Cambridge, Burton and Championship Luton along the way to set up a winnable tie against Premier League strugglers Southampton. Their 3-0 defeat of Luton was especially impressive.
The Mariners saw five new arrivals before the transfer window closed, one of whom opened his account for the club in their last away game, a 0-3 win at Crewe. I refer to Tom Dickson-Peters, who ghosted around on loan for us last season, looking as likely to find the net as Lewis Walker currently does. If he scores against us tonight, I resign my football fandom.
My first ever Gills defeat (in just my second game ) was a home match with Grimsby in March 1990, Steve Lovell netting a late consolation as we went down 1-2 at Priestfield.
The last two meetings between the two sides at Priestfield have produced a much better outcome for us Gills fans, both 3-0 wins, the first of those virtually 20 years ago to the day on 15th February 2003.
Our last meeting was in September 2008 and featured a real collector's item, a goal from the reviled Mark McCammon.
Enjoy the game tonight, not sure whether I'll be tuning in or trying to earn (and then spend ) some brownie points with the long-suffering FrauLjunga. Hopefully we'll see a decent crowd in and Gills return to winning ways!
COYG!
The Gills recent form has been positive, averaging two points a game across our last five despite losing to the Stags, while the Mariners for the same period are on a run of lose, win, lose, win, lose...ah. Here's hoping we can snap them out of that run tonight to send the romantics packing Priestfield home in a happy mood.
Neil Harris has mentioned mixing things up for tonight. Gills have maintained impressive consistency of team selections in recent weeks after a season of casting about for any sort of line-up that could try and get a result. However, alarm bells will have rung on Saturday as the midfield was frequently outfought and outflanked and some of our new arrivals will be champing at the bit to show what they can do from the off. What price a start for George Lapslie tonight?
Grimsby currently sit in 17th, nine points clear of us and will probably be safe for another season in League Two having only returned to League football last May after a brief dalliance with non-league. Paul Hurst's side also have several games in hand on surrounding teams as a result of their fantastic run in the FA Cup which has taken them to the Fifth Round, despatching Plymouth, Cambridge, Burton and Championship Luton along the way to set up a winnable tie against Premier League strugglers Southampton. Their 3-0 defeat of Luton was especially impressive.
The Mariners saw five new arrivals before the transfer window closed, one of whom opened his account for the club in their last away game, a 0-3 win at Crewe. I refer to Tom Dickson-Peters, who ghosted around on loan for us last season, looking as likely to find the net as Lewis Walker currently does. If he scores against us tonight, I resign my football fandom.
My first ever Gills defeat (in just my second game ) was a home match with Grimsby in March 1990, Steve Lovell netting a late consolation as we went down 1-2 at Priestfield.
The last two meetings between the two sides at Priestfield have produced a much better outcome for us Gills fans, both 3-0 wins, the first of those virtually 20 years ago to the day on 15th February 2003.
Our last meeting was in September 2008 and featured a real collector's item, a goal from the reviled Mark McCammon.
Enjoy the game tonight, not sure whether I'll be tuning in or trying to earn (and then spend ) some brownie points with the long-suffering FrauLjunga. Hopefully we'll see a decent crowd in and Gills return to winning ways!
COYG!