Gills' 2-0 home win against Tranmere last Saturday not only delivered a first defeat of the season for our opponents, but gave us back-to-back victories for the first time since January. After an even first half, the Gills stepped up a gear with two well-worked goals. Logan Dobbs headed home Ronan Hale's cross in front of the Rainham End, capping a meteoric rise from the youth team and potentially earning himself a Wikipedia entry following his rejection earlier this month fo

We finally got our season up and running last time out with an excellent 1-4 away win at newly promoted Rochdale. After a bleak few goalscoring campaigns, how good was it to see James Brophy net not one, but two Goal of the Season contenders? The first, which opened the scoring, was curled delightfully into the top corner. His second was simply breathtaking as he drove through midfield from halfway before slaloming past statuesque Dale defenders inside the box and rolling it

Gills make our second trip northwards this week to take on Rochdale still seeking our first win of the season following a point away at Chesterfield on Tuesday. Our first half performance at Chessie was so abject that even those posters who normally lean to the positive were appalled. Our passing was wretched, our defence accommodating and our attacking penetration flaccid as we went in at the break fortunate to only be one goal down. Some ranting and raving at halftime seeme

Last time out against Northampton we played some great stuff for the first half an hour, scoring our first goal of the season and generally looking like a side that knew what they were doing. Worryingly a single opposition substitution and accompanying tweak of system was sufficient to nullify our threat. With Plan A no longer working, there didn't appear to be much in the way of a Plan B and the next hour appeared more industrious than entertaining, with a draw probably a fa

Starting with the positives, last weekend’s goalless draw at Fleetwood saw Gills fly up the table from 23rd to 21st position, the result meaning we are now just 42 points shy of the average total required to avoid relegation across the last six League Two seasons. We’re also going well in the “who can hit the woodwork most” stakes, raising our total from three strikes to five in just two league games — impressive stuff all round. The injury curse struck us hard yet again on S

The Gills make the long journey to the Fylde coast this weekend hoping to kickstart their season after back-to-back 0-3 defeats in both cup and league. Our opening league game of the season against Walsall saw a much improved Gills performance from the Luton game. At least, for the first 80 minutes it was a much improved performance. Despite our efforts and several goalscoring opportunities to that point, the score remained at 0-0. We'd suffered two first half injuries, one p

After last weekend's "competitive friendly" fixture that ended our interest in the EFL Cup, we turn our attention to the bread and butter of League Two, welcoming Walsall to Priestfield tomorrow. It was a fairly disjointed new-look side that took to the turf last weekend. Yet again our luck with injuries seems to be out, with a plethora of first team starters missing, plus our first and second choice 'keepers all out of contention for that game. Yes, Luton are a higher divisi

After the slightly plastic diversion of the globe's best players slogging their way through 104 matches at this summer's World Cup, it's back to our own more familiar world of genuine, hard-fought, error-strewn and mostly unattractive lower league football. One where even the pessimists across the 92 allow themselves brief belief that this year might be their team's year. This campaign begins in unfamiliar fashion with a League Cup first round encounter against Luton as the f

Having battled through adversity to overcome Mexico on their own patch on Monday morning, England now look to reach the semi-finals with a win against a difficult Norway side tonight. Monday's game was an epic, England soaking up the initial pressure from the home side who were backed by a raucous crowd in the Azteca, before Bellingham unleashed a quick one two punch to puncture the atmosphere just after the half hour. But England can never seem to do things the easy way, a M

The wave of relief around the nation was palpable as Harry Kane's 75th minute header sneaked past the resolute Lionel Mpasi in the DRC goal to level the scores at one apiece on Wednesday evening. Until then it had been another hugely underwhelming England performance against a solid but unspectacular side ranked 46th in the world. The concession of an early goal highlighted all too starkly the makeshift nature of our defence, as the lively Cipenga was afforded plenty of time

It was another frustrating performance for England fans last time out against Panama. Not only did we largely flatter to deceive going forward, but we appeared increasingly vulnerable defensively, something a better side than Panama will ruthlessly exploit. Still, goals after the hour mark in quick succession from Bellingham and Kane gave us the result required to top the group and set up a match against DR Congo in the first knockout round. England's right back quandary has

England followed up their solid opening victory against Croatia with an underwhelming midweek performance against a Ghanaian side that came for a point and earned it with relative ease. Had their been a different set of officials in that game, England's qualification from Group L could still be in the balance, a couple of characteristic defensive moments of inadequacy threatening to reward the Black Stars for their own ruthlessly effective defensive performance that nullified

Tomorrow sees England looking to confirm their place in the Round of 32 when they take on Ghana in Boston. An opening victory last Wednesday against an ageing Croatia side highlighted both the strengths and weaknesses of this England team. Our defensive concerns were on show in the first half, a stodgy opening gradually being offset by a razor-sharp attack that, in the opening 20 minutes of the second half, had goalkeeper Livaković single-handedly keeping the score to a respe

We're five days into this World Cup and it's been a reasonably entertaining start to proceedings with a decent number of goals scored and some hard-fought contests (plus a few hammerings) across the 10 games played at the time of writing. The host nations have enjoyed a healthy start, Mexico opened the competition with a stodgy 2-0 win against a dreadful South African side, the US looked pretty impressive in dispatching Paraguay 4-1, and Canada earned their first ever point a

We've made it! Finally, the last game of a momentous season is upon us, with a fascinating final day tussle against Shrewsbury Town as both sides seek to secure the heady heights of an 18th placed finish, a position none of us could have believed possible before the season began... With a bit of luck elsewhere, we could even go one further by nabbing 17th spot from Cheltenham, but we shouldn't set our hearts on such an incredible ending for fear of maybe missing out in the un

There may have been positives to take from last Saturday’s fixture with Grimsby, but when the final score reads 1–4 to the opposition, they tend to get a little lost. Yet again, the bingo card of Gills deficiencies was well filled by full-time, as we shipped three or more goals at home for the fourth time in less than three months. When the usually dependable Glenn Morris is a major catalyst in that lamentable collapse, you know the game is up. Te may have been positives to t

Gills reached peak “Gillsy‑ness” in Tuesday night’s defeat at Cheltenham. The bingo card of clichés that have defined this awful season were gradually ticked off one by one in inevitable fashion: weird line‑up, positive start, Ronan Hale looking too good for this side, several missed chances, one good half, awful second half, wasted set pieces, subs that hinder rather than help, soft goal conceded, inevitable late opposition winner; all present and correct for a full house. T

Gills head to Cheltenham this evening for a rearranged, if ultimately fairly meaningless fixture, thereby completing our collection of mostly dismal midweek showings for this season. Our last midweek win came in just the fourth game of the season when still believed we were onto something special, gubbing Chesterfield 4-1 to extend our unbeaten start to the campaign. Our newest unbeaten run now stands at three following Saturday's fairly uneventful goalless draw against a st

An egg-cellent Easter saw Gills pick up a solid point at Walsall before following that up with one of the most comfortable and deserved home wins a Priestfield crowd has witnessed in a long time against Accrington on Easter Monday. Numerous positives can be taken from both games, although the cynic in me questions the timing of the sudden improvement as we move towards the end of the campaign and with new contracts being sought. On that subject, and as Part 2 of the 2026/27 s

Gills finally managed to stop the rot at Walsall on Good Friday, coming away with a point, having been both behind and leading in the game. Not only did we not lose, but two of our strikers actually managed to find the net: Hale calmly finishing off one of the most incisive Gills moves we've seen in months, and Palmer-Houlden reacting quickest to some calamitous Saddlers defending to give us the briefest of leads, as our inability to defend set pieces bit us on the arse again