The Gillingham Herald
Boardroom5 Nov 2035
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Gillingham can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Player ratings5 Nov 2035
Seb Palmer-Houlden runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Nov 2035
Pedro Naressi wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Gillingham know it.
Squad5 Nov 2035
Tempers go at Gillingham
Pedro Naressi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Nov 2035
Pedro Naressi gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match3 Nov 2035
A bad afternoon for Gillingham against Reading
0‑1 to Reading, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Nov 2035
A muscle injury sidelines Jake Cooper for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Gillingham will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Boardroom5 Nov 2035
92% of the income goes out in wages at Gillingham
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Market5 Nov 2035
Daniel Mitchell told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Daniel Mitchell has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Gillingham.
In brief
- Boardroom $694.1K taken back off the Gillingham table
- Market The Seb Palmer-Houlden question follows Gillingham around
- Market Jacob Ellis leaves for nothing