Samuel Murphy

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64 Edition

The Gillingham Herald

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad18 Oct 2027

Samuel Murphy damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match16 Oct 2027

Gillingham make it 6 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Gillingham have 6 straight wins of it.

Squad18 Oct 2027

Charlie Goode in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gillingham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad18 Oct 2027

A row about effort at Gillingham

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and George Campbell was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match16 Oct 2027

Gillingham find a way past Accrington Stanley

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

Player ratings18 Oct 2027

Armando Dobra was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.06. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout18 Oct 2027

Omar Beckles 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.

Player ratings18 Oct 2027

The afternoon ran through Fábio Tavares

Chances created: 12. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.

Squad18 Oct 2027

6 new faces, and Gillingham are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

Back issues
63 Edition

The Gillingham Herald

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad11 Oct 2027

The knee: Samuel Murphy out for 23 days

23 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.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Sam Gale stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Sam Gale and Gillingham agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad11 Oct 2027

George Campbell falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Words exchanged at Gillingham

Ethan Coleman and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout11 Oct 2027

The manager makes an example of Fabrício Isidoro

“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 dugout11 Oct 2027

George Campbell has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Gillingham will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market11 Oct 2027

No place for Isaac Smith in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Isaac Smith has his answer from Gillingham; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Looking ahead11 Oct 2027

Omar Beckles faces his old club

Accrington Stanley next, and one man in the Gillingham dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market11 Oct 2027

The Ronan Hale talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Gillingham know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief