January Incomings And Outgoings - What Do Gills Need To Do ?

[fan_of_mulligan]

Here is a list of Gillingham's First Team Squad For The 2020 / 2021 Season..........

Jack Bonham
Joe Walsh
Ryan Jackson
Jack Tucker
Connor Ogilvie
Stuart O'Keefe
Matty Willock
Kyle Dempsey
Dominic Samuel
Jordan Graham
Robbie McKenzie
John Akinde
Alex MacDonald
Jacob Mellis
Vadaine Oliver
Henry Woods
Christian Maghoma
Toby Bancroft
LOAN Zech Medley
LOAN Declan Drysdale
LOAN Josh Eccles
LOAN Scot Robertson
LOAN Tom O'Connor
LOAN Trae Coyle
OUT ON LOAN Lee Hodson

With The January Transfer Window about to open in just over a months time, what do you think Gillingham need to do to improve the first team squad for the second half of The 2020 / 2021 Season ??? - Which players listed above can you see leaving the football club in The January Transfer Window ??? - And if you can bring in reinforcements, where would you like to see Gillingham strengthen the squad to make Gillingham stronger for the second half of the season ???

[gillsfan1066]

Scally has to dig deep into the coffers find a goal scoring forward from a team sitting in the middle of the table, or get a player on loan from the Championship or Premier Division who is a gnats c*ck away from making the first team who needs maybe a more competitive environment then he gets on the reserve squad .
To tell you the truth I honestly feel this season is over as far as promotion goes, and I think were good enough to stay up with the players we have got, thanks to Wigan and The Shrews looking good in the bottom two spots, so maybe save some money for next seasons 33 midfield players Evans will bring in ?

[fan_of_mulligan]

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/sport/gillingham-boss-targets-january-additions-238910/

Gillingham chairman Paul Scally has given manager Steve Evans the green light to do what he needs to do in the January transfer window.

Evans says there are funds left over from the last window and he’s already got the wheels in motion to bring in additions to ensure they have a better second half of the season than the first.

[gillsfan1066]

I think we should get a round table of Gills fans going to help Evans out, stop him bringing in Midfield players, which help us get a 15 place finish in the table year after year.

[bunburygills]

Apart from who are we bringing in, who are we getting rid of? I was expecting great things from Willock but that doesn't appear to have happened. Who's the dead wood and how good are the loan signings. F.O.M.is usually up with the latest, how about letting a distant fan gain some knowledge?

[Garawa]

I think he has pretty much stripped out the dead wood already as was shown in the recent cup game when we fielded only 4 subs as he refused to give any youngsters some match day experience. Maghoma hasn't looked particular great but is much needed cover and Hodson is not going to play but he pretty left last season and we are simply waiting for his contract to expire so that doesn't really leave much. If anything, you could see Tucker or Ogilvie leave but would not be players we want to get rid of and then we would be stuck.

[gillsfan1066]

Come on FOM, help poor old Boomerang Bob out, he still thinks Simpsons in goal and Yeo's playing up front. It's true we overseas participants in these competitions Mr G fixes, ( oh God did I say that, I ment runs) , honestly don't really know what's going on at GFC, we have no one to argue with about footie, thank goodness for this site or I would now be supporting Norwich or someone.

[bunburygills]

Now you're talking. If we could bring back Johnny Simpson and Brian Yeo plus the likes of David Peach, Dick Tydeman and Rasher Bacon. Add the steal of Andy Quirke, Spider Burgess and Chopper Proverbs and we could be in business. We'd frighten a few teams that's for sure. Some alas, like super hero Simpson, are no longer with us. I lived on the Eastcourt Estate when I was a schoolkid and one of the all time great Gills, Ernie Morgan, used to kick around with us on the park. He was hobbling a bit through his football injuries but he was still brilliant with us kids. I wonder if that sort of thing happens anymore.

[sotongill]

what a wonderful memory , Bunbury . I suspect that it no longer happens as footballers no longer live within the community in which they play . like Simpson in Gordon Road from our day .

[gillsfan1066]

Oh yes it still happens, at my country home in the golden triangle of Cheshire,me and the boys often meet of a Sunday morning for a kick around on the village green before Robbie Fowler opens the "You Will Never Walk Alone" pub at lunchtime. We put a couple of Bentley's at one end for goal posts and a Ferrari and a Maybach at the other ,and we play England against the Rest of the World, but having only 5 England players against 27 Foreign players,the result always seems to be the same , we lose in the region of 3-53 most Sundays.
We often tell the police to allow a child to come through the ropes to play in goal for us , normally when were down by about 20, so we can blame him when we get in the bar to down a few pints with our roast beef and yorkshire pudding a bit later.
Assuming they have done running down one of their best friends ( normally around the away end goal ,when Pogba, Eto'o or Balotelli play in goal, why we don't know), the Wags join us for lunch, an event I find very disconcerting as they lift there food on their knives and forks, inspect it before replacing it in the gravy and drinking there glass of water for lunch before filing their nails over the apple pie and ice cream.
Yeah the average guy can still find a kick around with the stars if he lives in the right area, but I don't think Luton Rec. is the place to look.

[bunburygills]

A good sum up Gillsfan. I've just seen Les Riggs has just died. I used to love him as a kid with his long throws. I moved to Gillingham in 1956 and started watching the Gills straight away under Archie Clark. I've still got all the programmes from those games. We used to get great crowds then as well, regularly over 10,000. I remember a cup game I was at, I'm guessing it was against Swansea, though my memory is not what it used to be, when we had over 18,000. The place was jumping. The relationship with the players helped to foster the enthusiasm. I remember the second league game I ever saw when I lived in Somerset, it was Bristol Rovers v Liverpool in the second division. After the game we used to buy the Pink'un, it was pink, to get all the results. Then a bag of chips followed of course. Then I'm waiting at the bus stop only to stand next to the Rovers player Harry Bamford who was catching the same bus. Needless to say, I've still got his autograph to this day. Sadly, not long after that, Harry was killed in a traffic accident.

[Rimshot]

Harry Hughes and Dennis Hunt. A basic approach to the game !!
Playing the ball out from the back generally meant putting the ball and/or the opponent in row Z .

[sotongill]

I remember a cup game I was at, I'm guessing it was against Swansea, though my memory is not what it used to be, when we had over 18,000. The place was jumping.

It was Swansea Bunbury , January 1960 . A few years before i first went to a game

[gillsfan1066]

I remember the night we turned the floodlights on 25th Sept.1963, BIG 3- 0 win against Bury in the FL Cup, we were standing on and hanging from the new floodlights (they put damn barbwire around them) and there was 15,000 there to see the Gills win. At half time some guys told us to go up to the wall right by the corner post on the Northeast corner, and the two things I remember about that night was how green the grass was, and how when the Gills left winger charged towards the corner post to be tackles inches away from us, and the noise of that crunching tackle and the ball bouncing off the wall inches from my head, hahaha.

[Rimshot]

I was at that Swansea game...I seem to remember Mel Nurse ( Welsh Interntional ) marking Pat Terry, who had a goal disallowed.