The Gills’ final game before Christmas produced an entertaining spectacle under the lights at Priestfield as Mark Bonner’s side gave the home fans plenty of positives to take into the next few days. The only shame was the fact that a win wasn’t one of them.
Jayden Clarke poached the opener for the Gills after Elliott Nevitt’s long-range shot was only parried by the Robins’ keeper, but a superb free kick from Luke Young and a nightmarish piece of defending from our back line meant the Gills were chasing the game.
A superb sweeping move down the right involving Remeao Hutton and Nevitt set up a late-arriving George Lapslie to fire home the equaliser, but despite pushing for the winner, it just wouldn’t quite go in for the Gills. Even Bradley Dack’s instinctive effort came back off the bar and, instead of landing at the feet of a Gills attacker, dropped into the grateful arms of the Cheltenham keeper.
It meant we had to content ourselves with a point from a game we really should have won. But the nature of the performance, and the various signs that things might be getting better, meant that there was more optimism among the fans leaving the ground than we’ve seen in past weeks.
Owen Stanley hosts the post-match pod as he looks back at the night’s action, and assesses the team’s current standing in the table, as they sit just outside the playoff places.
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