The Gillingham Herald
Squad22 Feb 2027
6 saves: Taite Holtam was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match20 Feb 2027
Still nobody has beaten Gillingham
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The terraces22 Feb 2027
One of their own: Taite Holtam
He is 22 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
After 5 games, Gillingham finally taste it again
The first defeat in 5 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Shrewsbury Town; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Gillingham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Viudez 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
James Gibbons 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Gillingham lose Adam Hunter
20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Sam Vokes
“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 dugout22 Feb 2027
Jake Turner is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout Ethan Bristow dropped after a run of poor form
- Player ratings Armando Shashoua beats them one at a time