Turd on a string

Saturday 15 March - Gills 0 -3 Crewe

As we slid inexorably down the table there was a crumb of comfort to be had from a run of fixtures against sides in and around us in the League. Win those, went the logic, and we will be ok. So it’s fair to say that a shambolic 3-0 home defeat in the first of those relegation six-pointers hasn’t exactly calmed the nerves. In fact, the Gills now find themselves staring straight down both barrels of a relegation shotgun (if I can unmercifully mix my metaphors for a moment - and why not, Paul Scally does so with alacrity in his programme notes).

You’re Rovers ’til it rains

Tuesday 11 March - Doncaster Rovers 2 - 1 Gills

Given Gillingham’s away record, now beyond a joke and into the realms of a sad pathetic farce, and Rovers’ run of twelve wins and a draw in fifteen nobody really expected much from this historic first ever visit to the Keepmoat Stadium. In the end on a rather blustery day that would have had Winnie the Poor totally disconbobulated we very nearly brought back a point. Rovers could argue they edged the game but it wasn’t the walkover many had expected after our wretched surrender at Hartlepool three days earlier, and it was the home side left handing on for the points at the end.