***Gillingham Official Matchday Thread (Tues 26/12/23)***

I wouldn’t dispute that at all Alex and Morris rightly has a prominent place in our history in the EFL with some heroic performances. Because of that he tended to be immune from criticism when he did make mistakes and sometimes the sort of things which Corey gets slaughtered for now. 

A mere baby JTG, or perhaps just seems that way as I get older!

Brought my Dad along recently and he couldn’t believe the quality of football being played. I think we sometimes forget how bad lower league football used to be!

Yes, the football quality has improved in general. In our later non-league seasons we appeared to be over reliant on a ball over the top, but we had Matt Tubbs who was quick enough to take advantage. However, I noticed that we could come a cropper getting the strength of the pass right, especially on a wet pitch. We could play a reasonable one or two-touch game as well, but only because the opposition was usually at a lower standard. We continued to rely a bit too much on ball over the top (IMO), though not exclusively, until pisstaker O'Driscoll briefly became manager, and the pre-season friendlies were a revelation with the change in style. Whatever bad things I might say about O'Driscoll, he did have us playing a good-quality game and this stuck for a while even after he left. Then the money ran out and the squad broke up. It has taken a few years, and dropping down a division, for such a style to re-emerge.