Gillingham FC Forum

- The Gills edge the wins over Southend by 46 to 36 (30 draws) and have won 4 of the last 5 meetings.
- The Gills are unbeaten against Southend in the last 9 meetings, 6 of them ended in wins. In the away games at Southend, the Gills are unbeaten in 4 (3 wins) and have 1 defeat there in 7 visits.
- Southend's 4 home defeats this season have all come in their last 10 home games but they have also won 4 out of 6 at home.
- Southend were unbeaten in 4 league games and had kept 3 clean sheets in them (conceding just the 1 goal) before losing 4-0 at Plymouth on Friday. It was their 2nd defeat in 11.
- Southend have led for the longest period of time when taking a lead. They have been ahead on average for 48.6 minutes from each of the 21 leads they have managed in games.
- Southend have the joint highest amount of away blank sheets (9) but have only had 3 home games where they failed to score (0-0 v Doncaster, 0-0 Rochdale and 0-3 v Walsall). 2 of those 3 blank sheets have come in their last 3 home games.

15.02 Kick Off [ 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 ]

15.10
GOAL! Southend 1-0 Gillingham: Turner
Southend have now scored first in 13 of their 19 home games this season and are unbeaten when scoring first at home (9 wins).

15.13
GOAL! Southend 2-0 Gillingham: Robinson

15.20
GOAL! Southend 3-0 Gillingham: Kightly
The Gills have not conceded more than 3 goals in a league game this season. Only 1 game has seen more than 3 conceded...the 7-5 home win in the Football League Trophy.

15.27
Connor Ogilvie is taken off and replaced by Conor Wilkinson. Garmston reverts back into defence.

15.41
GOAL! Southend 4-0 Gillingham: McLaughlin

15.46
Disallowed! Tom Eaves has a goal ruled out for offside.

15.50
Red Card! Lee Martin is sent off.

15.52 Half time 4-0
Southend's record when leading at half-time this season and the previous 2 seasons:
17/18: 10 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats. 16/17: 14 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats. 15/16: 9 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats.

15.58
The last time the Gills were 4-0 down at half-time was back in November 2015. The Gills lost the match 4-1 (Coventry).

16.07
The second half kicks off. Nasseri starts the second half in place of Hessenthaler.

16.11
The Gills make their final change, bringing on Nugent for the injured Luke O'Neill.

16.17
Southend win their 5th corner of the half already.

16.25
Disallowed! Tom Eaves has another goal ruled out for offside.

16.34
Wagstaff survives a sending off! Hecommits a foul, the referee reaches for his pocket but doesn't show a red as he already has a yellow!

16.44
Josh Wright comes on as Southend's final substitution.

16.55 FULL-TIME 4-0

Attendance: 8,466 (1,307)
Position: 15th
Referee: Graham Salisbury
Match Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAiST4dBR48
BBC Match Report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43536929

Guess this game has the word draw written all over it, and with Gillingham playing this lack luster football I can see the games against Doncaster, Oldham, Blackpool and Plymouth going the same way, which is a shame because finishing in the top half of the table would look a lot better than sitting in 16th or 17th place and give us a leg up to start next season.
I can't help thinking if I was a player looking for a team this summer and my agent gave me a call and said Gillingham are interested in you and so are Peterborough, Gillingham finished in 18th place last year, but there OK, Peterborough finished just outside the promotion race in 8th place, and there going to be strong contender again this year, I know where I would go,even if I didn't know where Peterborough was on the map.
Come of Gillingham wake up ,GO GILLS ,LETS FINISH STRONG, keep some interest there till the end and give us hope for next season.

Gills make the short trip across to Essex tomorrow afternoon,with us hoping we can bounce back from the two defeats recently.Southend got hammered at Plymouth on Saturday,so hopefully we can get at them early.Parker back available will be a boost.1,400+ Gills fans expected to make the trip will help the players.Lets hope for a win that puts us on 52 points.

That has to be the worst half of football I've ever listened to. And to make matters worse, twitter was running 7 minutes behind to make everything that was happening utterly confusing!

OK OK I fell for it, April Fool joke right, felt they could not play April Fools jokes on Easters Holy Sunday so there doing them today, ONE SHOT, NONE ON GOAL after 75 minutes,has the manager lost the team, has Space Satellite gone all " I am the manager,you will do what I say" like he is something special, if this is the case cut him loose NOW and bring in Evans.

Woeful. Clearly one of those days when nothing goes right.

4 down on 39 minutes
2 goals ruled out for offside
Played the entire second half with 10 men
Luke O'Neill went off injured
Only 1 shot at goal other than the 2 for offside and none on target

A lot of work to do from this now after 3 league defeats in a row, the first time for just over a year.

I could understand us not having more than one shot away to Manchester City, Inter Milan, of Barcelona, but Southend ,even with 10 men on the field we should have been able to manage more than ONE shot and two disallowed goals. Turd defeat in a row,five yellows and then a red ,and almost another red, me thinks there is something very wrong at GFC ?

I only saw the score when I got home,but the first 18 minutes looked to have killed us.Then to go 4-0 down and have Martin sent off it`s just about damage limitation for the second half. Feel for the 1,307 fans who backed the Team.1 shot none on target is really poor,just got to hope there is a big response at home to Doncaster on Saturday.