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

After back-to-back wins it's now back-to-back defeats that, barring a miracle, have realistically nixed any lingering play-off hopes we might have had. Tuesday night's defeat in the sleet away at promotion hopefuls Notts County nearly saw us nick a point, but a combination of excellent goalkeeping and poor finishing cost us after we gift-wrapped County their opener with some of slackest marking since my A-Level results. That we could have come home with something after a tota

Three games in and signs of positivity are slowly increasing with each Gills performance, all this without a single new signing even making it onto the bench yet. Despite an unfortunate defeat on penalties in the League Cup on Tuesday night, we proved to be the better side for the majority of the game against higher level opposition, being only the width of the goal line away from a 2-1 win in normal time following McKenzie's effort off the bar. Tomorrow's opponents had Tuesd