Gillingham FC Forum

Hope you guys at the game enjoyed the first half more than I did , thank goodness we have got a guy in the next room painting the skirting boards at least we have got something exciting to watch.
Come on M.A .wake this LEAGUE LEADING TEAM UP, we are supposed to be the best of the best of the best, we need a win tonight.

It was poor as....the home fans deserve better.

agree it was poor not sure i agree home fans deserve better though.
i went to chesterfield staurday the away fans sang virtually non stopo all game backing the team.
Tonight even before a ball was kicked the atmosphere was poor,fans whining that cody had gone no way birchel would be good enough etc.silent for most of game.Couldnt even be bothered to have a go at ref who was awful.Most excited they got was towards end when it seemed to be acceptable to scream abusue at players and then boo and hurl abuse.
Poor display by the team but even poorer buy the fans and has been most of season.

I suppose if we swopped the home and away results round we would all be celebrating. Looking at it like that the season is pretty ok, heck its great as we are top. However I am getting a bit peeved at only seeing drab games when away it is win, win, win. And we have to be concerned that golden opportunities to seal leads at the top are being squandered.

Yes this is football and it happens but we have gone from being a free scoring side conceding a few goals and winning to a side that really doesn't look like scoring, not conceding as many and not winning either. Apart from Dagenham, we have had three or four home games in which we really never looked like troubling the keeper. That, for a side aiming to be pronounced champions, is disasterous.

This away run MUST end soon. When it does we will be in trouble.

quit moaning away fans had to endure 18 months without a win

I can't understand why anyone would want to play for us. So Coventry recalled Cody . As parent club they are allowed to. MA acted quickly to get a replacement in and yet all I read on the official fb page was people moaning about Scally letting Cody go (!) and people slagging German off and calling him rubbish before he's kicked a ball. Ffs. We are top. Not been out top 2 since September. Best position we have been in for almost 20 years and STILL people moan. I suppose if MA took us to the Champions league there would still be fans moaning about something or other. Fans? Not really but can't think of a proper word for them.

Lol Bananaman. History evening itself out I suppose!

Posh, it's just some people's immature way of dealing with disappointment I suppose. What's slightly concerning is that Oxford dominated possession and to the extent that most home fans aren't getting to see the best of the results the dissatisfaction is more understandable.

As you say, however, we are in top spot. Did someone once say 'rejoice' ?

The team runs out to silence; a team that is top of its division. There is no atmosphere for 80 minutes and we wonder why we struggle at home, but evry time it is mentioned people just poo, poo the fact or just ignore it. When the team is struggling it is the fans job to try and lift the team, but for some reason our fans seem to want to drag them down further?

There is part of that. However the fans and on the pitch performances will always be linked to an extent that they are inseparable from each other. The current and previous managers both said it was the players jobs to raise the voices in the crowd. Trouble is in recent games it is hard to recall many chances where the 'keeper was truly tested. Shots on target don't tell the full story as these can include low power daisy cutters. At least once he should have to stretch himself but we are barely getting out of third gear it seems so it is hardly likely to inspire the fans. And when the fans arrive having heard of the side win over and over away and then watch them barely create a chance you can see why they may get a bit dispondant.

That said elgrande is right and they shouldn't wait to be woken up, they don't away from home which begs the question do these people attend home games? I wouldn't mind betting most sit in the Rainham End and it only takes two or three voices to start the rest off so why isn't this happening? A paultry amount of away fans is by far the biggest culprit for a lousy atmosphere and only when the stand is half full would the rival singing work.

I agree about the home fans. But watch the Football league show, even watch MOTD, there are empty seats everywhere, maybe not in the top 6 or 8 clubs but lots of empty seats. Fans are being priced out of football and those that do go seem to feel that paying the high prices gives them the right to expect winning every week.

I agree totally with Posh's statement. We are top of the league, top 2 all season, ffs get a grip this is as good as its ever going to get for a club like ours.

How it is scallys fault CODY went back is beyond me. If we hadn't had the recall placed in the loan then the loan would not have gone ahead.

Rob, if you base your policy on loans rather than signings this is bound to happen. Someone suggested to me that the reason we play better away is that for most of our players that's more 'home' than our ground is. Not entirely logical but you can see what is meant.

lol valid point rimshot.

I am not a lover of all these loans tbh, but I suppose it gives you an opportunity to see a player and if you like him then go for the purchase.

Its strange but its not just ourselves that have an amazing away record. Port Vale and Exeter both have amazing away records this season, yet we are all letting ourselves down at home

Think loans are the only way to go for the small clubs, don't know if it is the answer but not having a reserve team or developmental squad playing regular weekly games seems to me to make it very difficult for the manager to asses talent.
Bring a guy in on a Monday throw him into a reserve team for half hour Wednesday nite see what you have got, and then you know if he can join the squad for Saturdays game, but perhaps I am still living in the last century, now I guess you push a button on some computer and it tells you all you need to know.
I understand we have scouts watching players but if a player is not playing regular football like say Forecast how do you know what you are bringing in? From what I see German played once for Brentford this season ,played a few times for the developmental squad and has been around the block quite a bit for a 22 year old.
Anyway up , up and away to Division ONE, then that will give me something to worry about all summer.

It's not just small clubs either. A lot of Premier League clubs are opting to go with loans instead. Perhaps the financial rules are hitting them. Shame they have no effect on the huge privately owned clubs!