[ 30 Apr 17 ] Northampton v GILLS Match Thread

[Garawa]

- Northampton have won 51 meetings to the Gills 40 (18 draws) however the Gills have won each of the last 3 (2-1, 2-0 and 2-1).
- The Gills are unbeaten in the last 6 against Northampton winning 5 of them. Town were unbeaten in the 6 before, also winning 5.
- After 7 home defeats in 8 games, Northampton have since won 5 home games from 9 under Justin Edinburgh but none in the last 3.
- Northampton are win-less (4 defeats) in their last 7 matches. They have scored 4 and conceded 12 in them.
- The Gills have managed just 2 first half goals (conceding 10) in the last 9 games but scored 10 (conceding 12) in the second halves.
- Sides on average in League 1 have witnessed 115 goals from their league games. The Gills (1st) have seen 138, Town (=3rd) saw 133
- The Gills have ended their league campaign with an away game in 8 of the last 13 seasons. They won 1 and lost 4 with 3 coming in their last 3 occasions.
- The Gills have managed 3 clean sheets from all games this season, the lowest in their history. 1896/7 also saw 3 but from only 23 games.
- A 1-0 win for the Gills would see them match the 2013/14 goals tally of 60 goals scored and 79 conceded (we finished 17th).

12.02 Kick-Off [ 4 - 4 - 2 ]

12.10
Penalty! Cody McDonald fouled in the box.

12.11
Josh Wright sees his penalty saved!

12.49 Half-time 0-0 (46:30)
Fleetwood Town 0-0 Port Vale

13.04 The second half kicks off.
The Gills have conceded 35 first half goals, Northampton have conceded 48 in the second (both the highest in the league).

13.52 FULL-TIME: 0-0 (94:06)

13.53
Fleetwood have a goal ruled out for offside.

13.58 FULL-TIME: Fleetwood 0-0 Port Vale
Port Vale are relegated.

Position: 20th
Attendance: 7,034 (1,054)
Referee: Darren England
Goal Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nhxrXYGr8o
BBC Match Report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39682846

[gillsfan1066]

I will save you the time Bubba. Only fact anyone needs to know GILLINGHAM are staying up, and even if Vale win tonight there is no way on Gods Green Earth that Vale beat Fleetwood on Sunday, a win and a Bolton Loss and Fleetwood are home and dry, going to the place I had hoped the Gills would be going instead of them.
Although I can not see Bolton losing to Pe'tboro, I sure as hell can not see Fleetwood losing to POOP VALE , so this weekend end I see Gillingham winning 2-1, Bolton winning 3-1 and Fleetwood winning 5-1 ,then we will have all summer to watch the cricket, and dream of great things for the Mighty Gills next season, hopefully after watching film of Fulham through the summer, love the way they have played this year.
I hear our local hero Mr Lidbit Cowdry has been called up to play for England in the first three ICC Championship games starting in June, against India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, way to go MR.L., we will all be cheering for you.
What,what ,not mens cricket , Englands Women, my bad, oh well don't say anything, Mrs. L says he has lovely legs so maybe he will pass for one of them Trans Granulated People, who can use both bathrooms, always wondered how the women ones sit on those urinals to pee , quiet a balancing act is that.

[Kent_UckyFriedGills]

So this is it the final game of the season,and as many predicted it comes down to the JED game.It had to happen didn`t it.Port Vale winning last night means we wont get the relaxing game that we had hoped for.My heart says we will escape the drop,but through Fleetwood not ourselves.Northampton have nothing to play for,but JED would love to send us down after we sacked him.This will be my first trip to Sixfields,but i`m not expecting us to get anything with our poor defending and tactics.Hopefully we can sneak to safety.

[gillsfan1066]

Northampton have not won in SEVEN games, Glasgow is already doing what he did at Gillingham, he's the month of March, comes in like a Lion, goes out like a lamb. He still goes home of a night time and works on which Gillingham speedy right footed wing back he should have played on the left wing or in goal.
The players at Nothampton are not going to play any better for him because he got fired at Gillingham, all they wish is the game was Friday night so they could start their summer vacations a couple of days early.

[Garawa]

We turn teams on poor form into world beaters (Oldham, Coventry, Swindon, Bury....) the list goes on and on. We are either likely to keep a clean sheet or do Town a favour (more likely). Fleetwood will expect Bolton to win so I think will ease off and protect players for the play-offs after only just getting key players back. Vale could nick it at the end if Fleetwood hear Bolton are winning so it's a dangerous place to be in. It was exactly the same in 2010 when we all said not all can go against us yet it did - the only difference this time is that we are point worse off than last time.

[gillsfan1066]

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, lol, were going to be OK, go get the child and put her on the orange box in front of the screen. Honey it's uncle Steve, do you want a present, go and kick Daddy in the shins and make him say Gillingham are going to win.

[Garawa]

She's ill on the floor currently!! She better be well before Sunday, can't be having those sort of interruptions over lunch when I am getting regular palpitations every time Jeff Stelling mentions an update on Sky Sport's Soccer Special!

[gillsfan1066]

What did you do sell the poor kids bed so now even when she is poorly she has to sleep on the cold concrete floor, did you at least get a 6 pack for it ??

[Garawa]

Radio Kent have just Kenny Jackett is at the game.....! Edinburgh, after several attempts, refuses to shake Pennock's hand.

Starting 11 is Nelson back in goal. Ehmer, Oshilaja, Rehman, Jackson, Martin, Byrne, Wright, Hessenthaler, Parker, McDonald.

[Garawa]

Only the 4th clean sheet of the season (3rd in the league) and Nelsonn back in goal. That was horribly nervy!!! 6 minutes between our game and Port Vale's game finishing, and it felt like an hour. Found myself screaming at the TV for the game to finish. I so expected Vale to score and send us down and they looked they might athough after our final whistle Fleetwood had a goal ruled out and tweeted to say the ball was down the right end as far as Fleetwood, Gills and Bury fans were concerned!

Can rebuild now and I would love it if Kenny Jackett took over next season.

[gillsfan1066]

We WON THE CUP,WE WON HE CUP,EE-I-ADIO WE WON THE CUP. I don't care if there is no cup, EE-I-ADIO WERE STAYING UP,WERE STAYING UP, EE-I-ADIO WERE STAYING UP.

[Kent_UckyFriedGills]

Not a great match to watch,but also for stress reasons too.When Wright`s penalty was saved I thought it was going to be a bad day.Northampton didn`t really threaten at all,their best effort was Richard`s header that went just wide of the post.Hessenthaler had his shot saved,and Cody slipped a few times when he could have been through on goal.Our match finished but there were nerves for 5 minutes as we waited for Port Vale`s game to finish.There were big cheers once their result came through.Lots of songs of "We Are Staying Up" the players all came over punching the air with relief.It`s great we`re still in League one next season,and good that we can get this poor season out of the way.

[fan_of_mulligan]

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