Aaron Rowe

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Marked for Aaron Rowe

23 Edition

The Gillingham Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Eli King scores twice — 8.12

Two goals and a mark of 8.12 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market4 Jan 2027

Ethan Coleman asks to leave Gillingham

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad4 Jan 2027

The season belongs to Ronan Hale

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Gillingham have had the benefit of it.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Gillingham

Ben Garrity 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.

Match29 Dec 2026

Gillingham find a way past Swindon Town

Swindon Town made Gillingham work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Aaron Rowe beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout4 Jan 2027

Finley McAllister 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.

Match4 Jan 2027

Halfway: Gillingham sit in position 4

42 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.

Market4 Jan 2027

Still no ink between Gillingham and Ben Garrity

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Gillingham, another week without a signature from Ben Garrity.

In brief

Back issues
18 Edition

The Gillingham Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Ethan Coleman goes up and wins it — 7.98

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.98 for the rest of it.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Federico Ortiz out for 31 days

The medical room confirms 31 days on the sidelines for Federico Ortiz, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Match28 Nov 2026

6 unbeaten for Gillingham

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Gillingham did not have in the autumn.

Match28 Nov 2026

Ethan Coleman the difference as Gillingham beat Chesterfield

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ethan Coleman. 1‑0 against Chesterfield, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Eli King reaches 100 appearances

100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

A satisfied Harry Young

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

The dugout30 Nov 2026

The form table has caught Neo Eccleston

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Market30 Nov 2026

Armani Little told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Armani Little has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Gillingham.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Aaron Rowe

“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.

In brief

7 Edition

The Gillingham Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Ronan Hale

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market14 Sep 2026

Jonny Williams puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Gillingham, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Gillingham

Neo Eccleston 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.

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

The window shuts on the Emmanuel Sol-Loza deal

Gillingham ran out of time with Charlton Athletic. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Match12 Sep 2026

Cheltenham Town take the points off Gillingham

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Harry Young to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Jake Turner 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Reuell Walters needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Gillingham know which stage they are at.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Eli King has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Eli King keeps the shirt for now, at Gillingham's convenience rather than his own.

In brief