Just wondering if people have any thoughts on whether the Gills will stay up or return to League Two next season? I know it is still too early to tell, but we are only 4 points off the drop, looking at the teams below us, we certainly struggled big time against Port Vale and I believe personally we snatched a very lucky point over the 90+ minute display on Saturday. Bury are 21st but are they starting to find their form, let's not forget the 5-1 drubbing they gave the Posh. Next up is Chesterfield tonight who are 23rd, followed on Saturday by a visit to bottom of the table Coventry and we still have the upcoming fixture away at Swindon on Tuesday 28th. Cannot believe pre-season other team supporters were expecting us to be in contention with our squad, no wonder there is no pennies left in the pot! I think by the end of this month we may have a clearer picture of our destiny, we are still 19 points off that magical 53 number. Over to you all for debate...
The team's quality is frankly is good enough to be fighting for play offs however they haven't been lead that way. No win in our last 8 games isn't very positive and with Pennock failing to secure any wins or any improvement in perfomances at home, it's going to be a long rocky road if we stay up. If we do go down however I will not be best pleased because I couldn't stand wasting my money to see two teams hoof it back in League 2.
If we get enough points, we'll stay up, if we don't we'll go down. Ok. that said, are they good enough to stay up. I watched a lot of the pre-season games and we were poor, at the time everyone told me pre-season games mean nothing and are not a indication of how the season will go, at the moment I might argue that point. Have I seen anything in the games so far suggesting things might change? no, we have struggled and been lucky in too many games. Have we seen any indication of dominating teams ? not that I've really witnessed so far. Can AP get the players fit enough, and motivated enough to change our fortunes ? I live in hope.
From all the match reports I read from fans on various sites, and following most games on The Wall I have to say my confidence in survival is on the wane. As a school kid I remember us becoming one of the founding members ot the new Div 4 in 1958 after finishing rock bottom of the old Third Div South. Re election to the league that year was suspended due to the incoming new format, otherwise we might have found ourselves out of F.League altogether. If we come out of this month with only a couple of measley points then I would fear the worst. It's now or never!
Looks grim I'm afraid. Just hope we've unearthed a rough diamond in Josh Parker, and the two Bournemouth loanees get fit enough soon... Just hope if we do go down, we don't do a 'Tranmere' and fall straight through the trap door to non league.
Should of won today if not for Pennock making crazy decsion to make 3rd sub in injury time giving Chesterfield extra time to score. At least we are 5 unbeaten.
Worse case scenario if we keep drawing for the rest of the season it will get us 50 points exactly. Not really sure that will keep us up or not this year. Think the target for the end of the season should be 60 points for a solid mid table finish now. Crazy to think at the start of the season we all expected a promotion push and we're now worried about whether we're going to stay up or not.
2016 last relegation place 46 points. 2015 last relegation place 50 points. 2014 last relegation place 47 points
grumpygit Your post doesn't actually help - it doesn't give the points accrued by the team in 20th place, i.e what was the safety figure? You could have all 4 bottom teams lose all their games ( except the ones against each other ), and any of them could end up with between 0 & 10 points !
I thought that anything above those i.e. 2016 then 47 points would have been safe. But, as you want the exact figures 2016 20th place..50 points. 2015 20th place..52 points. 2014 20th place..50 points.
Or you could say that over the last 3 years 47.66 average points have been safe, but you could also say that in 2010 we were relegated with 50 points.
In the last 10 years we are the only team to go down with 50 points, in 2012 the last relegation place was 43 points, so 44 points would have been safe. conspiracy theory or what.
Yup in 2010 51 points would have been safe...At last you agree I'm correct and you're not 'alwaysright' <<< see wot I did there
Funny you should say that, I was over at Dockside the other day in a furniture shop. There was a bed with 2 pillows, one with Mr Alwaysright, and the other Mrs Alwaysright, the assistant gave me a few strange looks when I burst out laughing.
I'm sorry - I fail to see what's funny ! - I have got the same pillow cases - with monogram "I'm & He's". Mrs alwaysright also can't see what's so funny ----- strange that -- you'd have thought that watching Gills, you'd need to have a huge sense of humour. ps I'm not going to Coventry - doing a shopping trip in the West End of London -- I reckon I'll waste less money than a football day out.
I think it probably would have said Mr. Right and Mrs Alwaysright We sell duvet covers with that design. Would give you the link to our eBay shop, but it might get moderated and that'd look stupid...
Looking a genuine possibility.....sadly after today's game. Please someone explain to me why the Gills only seem to start playing once one or two goals down..... I'm beginning to despair. The last 12 months results would look very poor on the W D L front. I can't bring myself to work them out.
