Nutter's Natter with Gillingham defender John Nutter
With new players arriving and some of
the injured boys getting fit it means competition for places is
fierce.
Some people will have to miss out and
unfortunately I was one of the boys not to get a shirt on Saturday
against Walsall.
To say it hurt is an understatement
but I’m not the only one. I have to deal with it and work even
harder to show the gaffer that I want to be back involved and out
on the pitch again.
The arrival of James Walker from
Southend on transfer deadline day means competition for places is
even more intense.
I’ve seen James play a few times and
also played against him. He is a lively player and will certainly
cause defences some problems. He gives the gaffer some interesting
options up front and out wide.
Last Saturday was our third draw in a
week and we can count ourselves unfortunate that we didn’t manage
to get the three points.
We created some good chances but
Walsall’s goalkeeper and defenders managed to come up with the
right answers and stopped us getting the win. There were a couple
of decent saves and a few great tackles.
At the other end, AJ didn’t have too
much to do but when he was called upon in the first half he made a
great point-blank double save to keep the scores level at
half-time.
It helped us extend the unbeaten run
to three games, which is a positive we can build on, starting
against Brenford tomorrow (Saturday).
Simeon Jackson and Rene Howe caused a
few problems for the Walsall backline and Andy Barcham looked like
he was getting back to the form we know he can produce. They are
all huge plusses for us and hopefully the goals will start to come
again.
It was also nice to see Danny Jackman
(pictured) get a runout towards the end to blow a few cobwebs
away. He has been training for a week or so now and it’s good news
to have him back competing for a place in the team.
As I said earlier, it’s Brentford this
weekend in a big game for us. They are not many points above us and
a win will bring us much closer to them as the league is so tight
at the moment.
We went there last year and dominated
most of the game and left disappointed to only take a point from
the game.
We had a great following that day and
hopefully it will be the same on Saturday to help us put on a
similar performance.
We also met Brentford a month ago at
home and it was another game which we felt we should have won, only
to be undone by a fortunate deflection that gave them the three
points.
We certainly owe them one this
weekend!
Thursday, February 04 2010