Gillingham captain Armani Little says the squad needs to stick together amid an early-season injury crisis.

The Gills had to reshuffle their backline with Shad Ogie joining Conor Masterson on the treatment table. They’ll be joined on the sidelines by the suspended Max Clark at home to Chesterfield on Tuesday.

Little admitted: “It seems to all be going against us in a minute, but we're a group that stick together on and off the pitch, even when the players aren't fit, everyone's around each other.

“I think that's what the club's about, that togetherness, and we'll fight and battle for it.

“We’ll recover as well as we can, get ready on Monday to see what Chesterfield are going to throw at us and I'm sure we'll be ready.

“They've started the season really well. They're going to be strong contenders for the league, I think. But yeah, we'll be ready for the challenge and we'll go full steam ahead, ready for trying to get three points against them.”

Little admitted they’ve found their identity under boss Gareth Ainsworth.

“It feels like we're all together now, even the fans at the end,” he added. “It was good, they were buzzing off it. It would have been better with a win, but just scoring that late on, you take the point away.”

The draw at Tranmere on Saturday wasn’t one for the purists but Little knows that’s often the case.

“I think League Two, there's a lot of games that are like that, and usually it does settle down, but that game just seemed to never settle down,” he said.

“But there'll be days where we play nice football and a little bit more prettier on the eyes, but there's times where you have to do that.

“I think most of the time you have to do that in League Two, you have to fight, you have to battle.”

Little played a key role in the equaliser at Tranmere, picking up the ball from a half-cleared corner he had time and space to try and get his shot away.

It was something he was expecting as Tranmere don’t pick up attacking players on the edge of the penalty area when defending corners.

“We spoke about that on Friday,” he revealed. “The staff have watched (their games) back and they bring everyone back into the box and we tried that short corner, the first one when it didn't quite come off.

“But we knew that if we could get everyone around the goalie, then there'd be players around the edge of the box to pick up a second ball. Thankfully, it happened today and that's where the goal came from.

“I think the point was fully deserved to be fair.

“Obviously, we went a goal behind and I think the character shown from the boys, they didn't give up, their heads didn't drop and to come back and get a point and score right at the end is brilliant.”