Nutter's Natter with Gillingham defender John Nutter
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We haven’t had the greatest luck in front of goal recently but
I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before we get a couple of
breaks and the goals start going in for us. 
The situation will only be helped by the arrival of Dicko,
pictured, (Chris Dickson) this week.
He is a larger-than-life character with a great eye for goal and
gives us more options up front.
I’m sure he’ll be looking to take up where he left off last time
he was here when he knocked a few in.
The gaffer changed a few faces around on Saturday to freshen
things up a bit and you could see the desire from the boys that
they wanted to stay in the team from 1 to 11.
That is only healthy as I know those who didn’t start at the
weekend are desperate to get back in the side. We are going to need
to have the options to change things as each game throws up
different questions.
I feel we are through our sticky spell now and ready to come out
the other side and pick up the points we need to climb the
table.
We gained another point last weekend at Yeovil although it was
obviously frustrating that we didn’t get the three.
Wherever you go in this division a draw is a positive result.
That said, though, we feel we had every right to come away with
three on Saturday.
The first half, in particular, saw us pretty much dominate
possession and carve out a couple of chances, one which their
keeper pulled off a great save from Westy.
We played a slightly different system on Saturday with a diamond
in the middle of the pitch. It worked well for us and it’s positive
that we have another shape we can play comfortably.
The shape requires our front two to occupy their back four and
also track the full-backs at times. I thought the work that Dennis
Oli and Jimmy Walker put in was outstanding. They also showed some
lovely touches.
The diamond gives us a nice mix in midfield with Millsy and
Jacko’s legs and endeavour, Kev’s experience and Curtis’ skill and
creativity. The second half was slightly more even as they had a
couple of efforts on goal, although we gave as good as we got and
Curt was unlucky when forced wide by the keeper and could only
strike a post.
In the end a point was a decent result as it lifted us out of
the bottom four and gave us a platform to build on with two big
games coming up at home.
Saturday sees us entertain Bristol Rovers. After a tight game
with them last November – we lost 2-1 – I expect nothing different
at the weekend. Hopefully we’ll get the rub of the green which they
had at their place to come away with the points.
They had a good result in the week against Charlton so they will
be confident but we have had a great week’s training and are
looking forward to the challenge. After that we play Leyton Orient,
who have also had a decent run recently, on Tuesday night but we
know we are more than capable of beating them.
First things first, though, and let’s all focus on getting the
all-important win to get us rolling again this weekend against
Rovers.
Be as loud as you can. John
p.s. Just a note to my wife. I was not one of the boys who
picked up a Valentines Day card at the motorway services on the way
home on Saturday. Naming no names but shame on you lads!
Email any questions or comments to John at;
jnutter@thekmgroup.co.uk
Thursday, February 18 2010
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