[ 8 May 16 ] GILLS v Millwall Match Thread

[Garawa]

Millwall have won 47 games to the Gills 27 but they haven't won at Priestfield since Nov 97. The Gills have won 7 since with another 3 ending in draws.

The Gills have ended the season with a home game in 42 of their Football League seasons and only lost 7, winning 25.

Millwall have only failed to score in 3 of their away games this season, the least amount in League 1.

Millwall have 16 clean sheets in the league but half have come in their last 14 games.

Millwall have won their last 3 league games but only 1 was in an away game where they have won once in 6 after 4 straight wins.

Millwall have won their last 6 at home and 7 of their 8 wins came there in their last 14 games. The 31 before saw 6 home wins but 9 away.

Before today, Millwall had scored 23 goals from their last 14 games (10 more than the Gills) and conceded just 8 (9 fewer than the Gills)

After 9 defeats in their first 23 games (taking 34 points) Millwall since lost 4 (and taken 44 points). Only Barnsley and Wigan earned more.

12:32 Kick-Off

12:45
GOAL! Wigan 1-0 Barnsley

12:52
Double save from Nelson ends with Millwall hitting the bar.

1:06
GOAL! Wigan 1-1 Barnsley

1:14
GOAL! Sheff Utd 0-1 Scunthorpe

1:20
GOAL! Wigan 1-2 Barnsley

1:23 Half-time: 0-0

1:38
The second half kicks off.

1:46
GOAL! Gillingham 0-1 Millwall

1:49
The Gills make a triple substitution.

1:52
GOAL! Wigan 1-3 Barnsley

1:55
GOAL! Sheff Utd 0-2 Scunthorpe

2:03
Millwall hit the bar.

2:08
GOAL! Wigan 1-4 Barnsley

2:11
The final 10 minutes of games is the only spell in which Millwall concede more than they score (8-9). It's the best Gills period at home (11-3).

2:16
Former Gill Marlon Romeo sees a straight red card for a fould on Dickenson.He leaves the filed in tears and will miss all play off games.
Neil Haris, the Millwall manager, is also sent off.

2:22
GOAL! Gillingham 1-1 Millwall: Egan

2:27
Penalty for Millwall, conceded by Brennan Dickenson.

2:28
GOAL! Gillingham 1-2 Millwall.

2:29 FULL-TIME: 1-2
The Gills lose their 4th consecutive home game for the first time since October 2004.

Final Position: The Gills end the season in 9th.
Attendance: 9,375 (1,213)
Referee: Paul Tierney

[Garawa]

These are the games that will decide if the Gills extend their season or not. More than feasible the 3 below could all end in home wins and see the Gills take the final place! Milwall will be wanting a win too in order to ensure they get the second leg at home!

GILLS v Milwall
Wigan v Barnsley (Wigan are the champions and will be celebrating a title)
Sheffield Utd v Scunthorpe

Should the Gills do the unlikely then I can see Walsall (away to Port Vale) sneaking the last automatic spot and the play off would be against Burton (who travel to Doncaster)!

[Kent_UckyFriedGills]

Well here it is,the last game of the season is here.We thought that the Millwall game would have something on it,and it has! For the last 10 games you can say they have all been massive games,but this is the biggest of them all.Nothing but a win will do if we want to make 6th place,also we need Barnsley & Scunthorpe not to win to make it.A sell out at Priestfield,with a hot day expected what can be better? The players and Edinburgh are all confident,so lets believe we can pull it off in this Sunday.

[fan_of_mulligan]

I think Gillingham will line up as follows.......................

------------------------------------Nelson---------------------------------------
----------------Egan--------------El-Abd--------------Ehmer-------------------
Oshilaja-------------Wright-------------------Loft------------------B.Dickenson
-------------------------------------Dack--------------------------------------------
---------------------McDonald-----------------Samuel-------------------------------

Subs: G.Morris (GK), Jackson, Hessenthaler, Osadebe, Williams, Donnelly, Norris

With Aaron Morris a doubt and Andrew Crofts still at Brighton & Hove Albion receiving treatment, I can see Justin Edinburgh playing three / five at the back against Millwall tomorrow and try and get Adedeji Oshilaja, John Egan, Adam El-Abd and Max Ehmer into the starting line up, Ryan Jackson isn't fully fit enough to start and we just haven't been able to plug that gap vacated in his absence, as Oshilaja is the quickest and most comfortable on the ball, then we can expect to see Oshilaja playing as A Right Wing Back.

Doug Loft's performance was one of the few positives from our defeat against Burton Albion, and the experienced midfielder just hasn't been fit enough this season, Dominic Samuel will probably start alongside Cody McDonald again in attack, I just hope we don't pick up two injuries in the opening fifteen minutes like last Saturday.

I really hope that there isn't any trouble before, during and after the game, so for anyone going to the game tomorrow, you may want to be on the look-out just to make sure that you avoid any potential clashes among supporters, hopefully the match passes by without much incident to talk about and Gillingham pick up all three points tomorrow - COME ON THE GILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gillsfan1066]

OK folks, your own your own, it's 6.30 our time, 12.30 your time, I am off to play golf, have checked and double checked, got my I phone, packet of Polo's , $27 can of coke, bloody great bottle of Irish Whiskey, burnt out credit card that might be good for one more round , score card and map of the course, can't eat breakfast, drank a little tooooo much last night, Daves going to come and pick me up in three minutes and then were going to meet Stan and Bob at the course, me and Dave will argue over who is better my Cubs or his White Sox baseball teams, (GO CUBS) then it will be kick off time for the Gills.
Dear God, Hi it's me, yeah I know,I know, when times are tough or I want something bad, yeah but man oh man have I been busy for the last , er like 30 years, well anyway this isn't for me OK, it's for all the guys back home in Gillingham.
I know your a Gillingham supporter, I saw you once in the main stand back in the early 60's, I saw you when Yeo scored that goal,remember, well please please please let Gillingham win today, and everyone else thats in the running for that 6th place loose, PLEASE.
If you do this for us, I promise Mr Lidbit will take it upon himself to single handily work 24/7 to solve the worlds hunger problems he promises, andf garawa promises not to ask any more stupid questions in his daft quiz things, ( by the way could you give him some sort of life, poor boys house bound) .
OK just one more little thing while I have got you here, ..............Mrs. L, remember that plague of hair you gave her for missing church on Christmas Day, well how about lifting that , she's a fine strapping woman, would make a wonderful second mate on a fishing boat going out of Whitstable, but with all that hair she is finding it difficult to get a job, gets caught in the winches, so if you could see your way to like say giving her a trim Mr. Lidbit sure would appreciate it.
OK then I will leave it in your capable hands , oh ioh don't go, how about me shooting say like a 75 today , just asking???

[shoutingman]

Presume you didn't shoot anywhere near a 75 either..........................

[Rimshot]

It would be hard to find a worse way to end a season.

[gillsfan1066]

I feel Gillingham FC and myself have so much in common, went out in 37, came home in 40 ****i*** 3 , just gave up stupid shot after stupid shot on the last four or five holes coming to the club house, went back to the car to get the phone, saw the Gills had lost and Wigan had thrown the game so they would be nearer to play Barnsley next season , not that I would claim they did , and am now at home with a six pack of Goose Island IPA, and if all goes well I will be fast asleep before her in the other room turns on that dam MIdwife show filmed in Chatham Dockyard.
Oh well another season comes and goes and Gillingham screw up again, how the hell do you sit at the top for half a season, then go 22 games since Jan 1st and only win FIVE, I am sorry that is one mans fault THE MANAGERS, he is not up to the job, and if Scally were a REAL CHAIRMAN Glasgow would be on his way out tomorrow morning before I had finished my first cup of coffee.

[Garawa]

I'm not sure where we go from here. A truly wretched run. We look nervous, scared to attack the ball when we were doing for fun before (and at the end of last season when after flirting with relegation would be harder to do so). We have a lot of players out of contract and next season need a bigger squad than this season due to not being able to bring in loan ones like usual. We are giving away leads left right and centre and always concede the first goal and always seem to be battling back into games. And to top it all its goodbye Dack and Egan. The close season will define Edinburgh as a manager as we would surely be relegation favourites. Mind you, we were this season. Come to think so too were Leicester!

[Garawa]

Can anyone explain to me how the heck Wigan lost 1-4 at home as well?!?!?!

[gillsfan1066]

Threw the game, banking on NOT having to travel to Millwall next season and sure as hell didn't want to have to travel to Gillingham, if we had gone up. What other reason could it be, surly Barnsley could not have gone out there WANTING to win could they, putting a 110% effort into WANTING to win. Burton would have had to score 25 goals to catch them on G/D so it didn't matter.
Either that or the Wigan players were all drunk, lol.

[Kent_UckyFriedGills]

A sad end,but predictable with how our results have been the last 10+ matches.We gave a lot of effort,but our hoof ball style was easy for Millwall`s defenders.When we got the ball down we did look good.Millwall looked the better Team,and played a good passing game.Nelson made two great saves to make sure we went in 0-0 at half-time.He also made a save for their goal,but they scored the rebound.Millwall went down to 10 men when ex Gill Romeo was sent off for a two footed challenge,then Neil Harris was sent to the stands after reacting badly to the sending off.There was something to cheer when the ball found Egan late on,who smacked it in off the bar for 1-1.Priestfield went crazy and it was now just make sure we don`t lose to them.But deep into stoppage time Dickenson gave away a penalty when the whistle was just about to go.Looking at the challenge again,there doesn`t look much in it.Gregory scored their penalty and that was that.Our first defeat to Millwall at Priestfield since 1997,and the lap of honour was a quiet one.Results went against us anyway,but to finish with 4 straight defeats at home,and to drop away from the top 6 so late in the season makes it feel a poor season even though we have finished higher each season we have been back in League 1.

Key players will go,so it is all about the recruitment in the summer now.Will we get another chance like this next season? League 1 certainly looks stronger on paper.Maybe a top half finish again should be the aim,but I do fear it will be a bit of a struggle next season.

[gillsfan1066]

I apper to be the only one that thinks Glasgow is not a very good manager, but I blame him 100% for our failure to make the playoffs, God we were ther we had it in our pocket and he failed to motivate a good team for the second half of the season.
If were going to lose a couple of players I hope they go soon, lets get the money early and spend it wisely, I really don't want us to be a week or two before the new season starts picking up the talent thats left after every other team has picked through it.
So here we go into another off season, not much to cheer about in the cricket, Kent in 3rd place in DIVISION 2 thats an insult if there ever was one, and the Olympics , like anyone knows the name of three people in any event, so it's going to be golf,work,golf work, oh and talk to her at home, so beer ,beer and more beer.

[Kent_UckyFriedGills]

I apper to be the only one that thinks Glasgow is not a very good manager, but I blame him 100% for our failure to make the playoffs, God we were ther we had it in our pocket and he failed to motivate a good team for the second half of the season.
If were going to lose a couple of players I hope they go soon, lets get the money early and spend it wisely, I really don't want us to be a week or two before the new season starts picking up the talent thats left after every other team has picked through it.
So here we go into another off season, not much to cheer about in the cricket, Kent in 3rd place in DIVISION 2 thats an insult if there ever was one, and the Olympics , like anyone knows the name of three people in any event, so it's going to be golf,work,golf work, oh and talk to her at home, so beer ,beer and more beer.

I reckon Edinburgh will need a good August & September,as the stats are something like 4 wins in 20.

[fan_of_mulligan]

http://fan-of-mulligan.tumblr.com/post/144305829297/fom-blog-gillingham-1-2-millwall

Here is My FOM BLOG for Gillingham's home defeat against Millwall.