2019/20 Pre-season friendlies

[Garawa]

Dover Athletic 2-2 Gillingham

List and Hanlan score after the Gills went 1-0 down to Hessenthaler's Dover.

Gills XI (no subs used): Bonham, Hodson, Garmston, O’Keefe, Ehmer, Hanlan, Ndjoli, Jones, List, Cisse, Byrne.

[bunburygills]

Thanks for all these reports but no-one has written any summary of the players performances. Are the new players any good? What about the trialists? What's the style of play like? Are we play-off contenders? Do I stand a chance with my optimistic prediction league predictions? Someone must be watching these friendlies, common, give us the good goss.

[sotongill]

If you use Twitter Bunbury , then it's worth following @GillsDebate - they've given live updates through most of Gillinghams pre-season friendlies so far , and will probably do so for the Southend game tomorrow . Also worth following @FOM_BLOG , as he gives very useful and detailed updates . However , if you don't use Twitter …….

[bunburygills]

No, I don't do Twitter, I guess I'll just have to wait until FOM writes his six page summary on here.

[gillsfan1066]

Someo who has been t0 a couple of games PLEASE just tell us what the team looks like,are our new boys lighting up the pitch, does the team look as if it is cruising in third gear with fourth and fifth in reserve, do we look like a team that could go to Sunderland and come away with a point or three ?? I know it's early days but someone on here must have gone to either the Charlton, Millwall or Dover game ? Thanks.

[Garawa]

Gillingham 1-1 Southend Utd

New signings Mandron (scorer of the equaliser), Marshall and Jakubiak feature after their signings the day before.

Gills XI: Bonham, Hodson (Woods), Ehmer, Ogilvie, Fuller, Willock, O’Keefe, Charles-Cook, Marshall (Allen), Mandron, Jakubiak (Trialist).

[Garawa]

Sheppey Utd 1-1 Gillingham

The game was an academy side game put on at the last minute after the Stevenage match was postponed due to a water-logged pitch.

Gills starting XI: Walker, Lintott, Baker, Nelson, Bancroft, Lamb, Laing, Witt, Rees, Stevenson, Baker-Moran.

[sotongill]

Sheppey Utd 1-1 Gillingham

The game was an academy side game put on at the last minute after the Stevenage match was postponed due to a water-logged pitch.

This fixture wasn't put on at the last minute - it was announced on June 30th , and was always going to be an academy game rather than first team

[Garawa]

Was it? The club tweeted that Stevenage had a pitch inspection, which was then cancelled and thanked Sheppey for hosting the game instead?

[sotongill]

Was it? The club tweeted that Stevenage had a pitch inspection, which was then cancelled and thanked Sheppey for hosting the game instead?

The club have definitely got that wrong . The Gills Debate site posted a link to the Sheppey website on the 30th June , where the fixture was announced .

[Garawa]

Superb, thanks Soton. I got a bit lost with the number of changes that occurred.

[Garawa]

Welling Utd 5-0 Gillingham

The trialist is rumoured to be Normal Wabo (a forward who last played for Southend) although Matt Jarvis is also rumoured to be on trial at the club.

Gills XI: Walker, Scarlett (Hards), Baker, Nelson (Lintott), Witt (Lamb), Woods, Rees, Stevenson, Allen (Bancroft), Campbell, Trialist.

[gillsfan1066]

I see we got thumped 5-0, hope that was the under 16 year old team playing .

[gillsfan1066]

Is this the same Matt Jarvis that was with the Gills back when Mr. Lidbit was a boy ? Wabo is young but seems to have done nothing in the last 2 or 3 years, guess he won't be asking for much in the way of a pay check. .

[Garawa]

It is the same Gillsfan. When a bit of quality becomes available you'd be stupid to turn it down however, with the quality Evans has brought in, the likes of Wabo is one of those "I can't see him playing" sort of deals and we have probably enough players for him to not feature. I'd rather the money stay available for a back up keeper if need be.

It was very much a development squad game against a full strength Welling side that included Luke Rooney. Bradley Stevenson was the most experienced Gillingham player if you exclude Josh Rees who seems will not feature this season and is playing with the development squad.