Automatic promotion hopes from League 2 are fading fast, says Gillingham manager Andy Hessenthaler
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by Luke Cawdell
Gillingham manager Andy
Hessenthaler admits his side’s hopes of automatic promotion are
fading.
The Gills are 11 points off the
top three in League 2, having played a game more. They have also
lost their last three games, conceding 10 goals in the
process.
Hessenthaler
(pictured) said: "We are making it harder now to get into that
top three with those performances.
"We are having a proper slump at
the moment and we need to now go and win 10 games on the bounce if
we are going to do anything this season. It’s a bit of a statement
with 19 games to go.
"We have shown this season that
we are capable of getting results. Where do we go from here? We’ve
got to now stand up and be counted. We are in a bit of a rut. We
are scoring goals but we just can’t defend.
"We need to turn it around. We
said before the game that we had 20 wars. We have lost one and we
have 19 left. We have to get out of this, be men, and like I said
last week we need to make sure it doesn’t fizzle out and we end up
mid-table and it’s another season gone by without getting back to
where we want to be."
Hessenthaler, who is halfway
through his three -year contract with the Gills, remains adamant
that he can put things right.
"Football does change very
quickly," he said. "It’s not acceptable and so we have to do
something about it. We said we would do something this weekend, we
haven’t, so we have to next weekend.
"I am the manager. I have
managed for over 300 games and I am not inexperienced, I know what
I am doing.
"Players and other people might
think I don’t know what I am doing but that’s for them to make that
opinion."
He added: "I have the club at
heart massively and I stood on that line Saturday feeling
physically sick for those people behind the goal."
Monday, January 30 2012
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