Gillingham’s season might have finally taken off.

The man known as JET – Jay Emmanuel-Thomas – hit a stoppage-time cracker to end a run of seven league games without a win for the Gills.

Boss Justin Edinburgh will now be hoping his team’s 2-1 success over Northampton on Saturday is just the start.

Edinburgh said: “We have been looking for something to start it, for a result, a foundation and something to build off.

“That is one defeat in six now. We are showing signs of consistency.

“The draws against Charlton and Walsall should have been wins and I don’t think we deserved to lose at Fleetwood, but people don’t want to hear me keep saying that. In the run we are in, people will see it as an excuse.

“I have had full belief and that has shown in the way I have backed the group and their backing of me.”

With a league so tight, defeat would have put the Gills in the bottom four, but victory now leaves them just six points behind the play-off places.

“I am not going to get carried away,” said Edinburgh. “I am ecstatic, I am delighted and I am not going to hide that.

“I am pleased for the players because it would have been quite easy to go under."