Nutter's Natter with Gillingham defender John Nutter
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We’ve picked up four points from two
games which is positive and it takes us into this weekend three
unbeaten and looking to finally put the away day blues to rest.
We face the longest trip of the season
on Saturday, so what better place is there to go and get the first
win on the road than the longest?
Carisle had a poor result on Tuesday –
losing 4-1 at Hartlepool – and will be looking to put it right. We
are ready for them, though.
For those of you who are going to
brave the journey up there, bring the usual great spirit you bring
to our away games and we’ll do our best to give you the long
overdue repayment of an away win.
Four points from the two home games is
a decent return for us, although we could have had six.
We got the win we deserved on Saturday
after a gruelling game against a well-organised Bristol Rovers
side.
The first half was a fairly even
affair although they never troubled AJ. The gaffer wanted us to up
the tempo and put them under more pressure in the second half and
we managed to do that.
It took until the 92nd minute for it
to pay off but it did in the end.
It was another performance of hard
work and honest graft. As I have mentioned before, I have always
believed that if you put the work in you will get the result you
want and that proved true on Saturday.
Bristol were coming off the back of a
big win against Charlton and we knew it was going to be tough but
we stuck it out and got the win we deserved thanks to Jacko’s
strike.
I was pleased for Simeon when he
rattled in the winner.
It’s difficult when you are the top
scorer and there has been a lot of speculation surrounding you all
season but he has just got his head down and continued to work
hard.
Even when he was left out over the
last two games he has remained 100 per cent focused and showed why
he is our top scorer when he came on and notched the winner.
We also saw Dicko return and show
flashes of what we know he has in his locker. Hopefully there will
be more of that to come from now until the end of the season.
He’s a goalscorer and he proved that
by getting our goal on Tuesday night, following up a great strike
from Jacko.
That brings me onto the Leyton Orient
game and one we feel we should probably have won.
We started great and took the early
lead. We had the better of the first half and maybe could have
added another before half-time but it wasn’t to be and we went in
1-0 up (pictured).
Second half we didn’t really get out
of the blocks as we would have liked and Orient managed to put us
under some pressure, with lots of diagonal balls and direct balls
forward.
We stood up to that but unfortunately
just as we were starting to feel comfortable again, they were
awarded a soft free-kick, which they again put into our box and
after a couple of ricochets, the ball landed to their centre-half
who tucked it away well.
We got going again only to miss two
big chances to win the match.
Firstly their keeper made a
point-blank save from Dennis at a corner and then big Gal flashed a
header just wide which he was tearing his hair out about after the
game.
Thursday, February 25 2010
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