Mark Harris

Right Midfielder - Gillingham U18
3 Jan 2027
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Marked for Mark Harris

17 Edition

The Gillingham Herald

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad23 Nov 2026

The knee: Oliver Rathbone out for 25 days

25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Gillingham lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Jamie Mullins runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces23 Nov 2026

One of their own: Femi Seriki

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match21 Nov 2026

Gillingham find a way past Crawley Town

Crawley Town made Gillingham work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Gillingham count the cost of losing Mark Harris

23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

A masterclass from Femi Seriki

Marked 8.03 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Harrison Biggins

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

A satisfied Nicholas Morris

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Nicholas Morris could afford to be generous.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Eli King knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Eli King trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

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13 Edition

The Gillingham Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad26 Oct 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oliver Rathbone

55 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gillingham lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad26 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Gillingham

Oliver Rathbone and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Gillingham count the cost of losing Mark Harris

53 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Match24 Oct 2026

Ronan Hale sends Gillingham past Tranmere Rovers

It finished 1‑0, and it was Ronan Hale’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Gillingham.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Words at Gillingham training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Harrison Biggins is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Harrison Biggins runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Harrison Biggins

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Ronan Hale was the difference for Gillingham

Marked 7.87. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

A promise honoured for Femi Seriki

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Gillingham told Femi Seriki something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Oliver Rathbone knocks on the manager’s door
  • Market Ethan Coleman is free to find somewhere else
3 Edition

The Gillingham Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match15 Aug 2026

A 2-goal lead gone for Gillingham

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Oldham Athletic kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Gillingham will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

4 academy players handed senior numbers at Gillingham

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Gillingham rebuffed over Joe Buršík

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Portsmouth have kept their man, and Gillingham go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market17 Aug 2026

One of our own: Matthew Roberts joins the Gillingham first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matthew Roberts is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market17 Aug 2026

Gillingham promote Mark Harris from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mark Harris has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market17 Aug 2026

Gillingham promote Nicholas Evans from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nicholas Evans has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market17 Aug 2026

One of our own: John Murray joins the Gillingham first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. John Murray is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Harrison Jones runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Too much change too quickly at Gillingham

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief