Greetings people. This has been bugging me for a while. I am not sure I like this 4-2-3-1 formation that seems to have reared it's head. On paper it looks OK, 4 at the back so we can cover central and winger threats 2 holders in DCM areas to help out 3 behind the main man up front 1 up front I though it might work , but I am now not so sure A question for all, when was the last time Gillingham (and England in a way) had a decent 2 up front that got played all the time, and both us and them have had some good front 2. Gills Sarbs + Taylor Cody + Kedwell Cody + Akinfenwa England S A S Owen Rooney Names you could go on all day From a Gills point of view I would go go to a 3-5-2 3 at the back, central defenders we have that are covered I think 4 along the middle of the park, using pace and wingers on the flanks 1 behind the front 2 (paul shaw-ish) 2 up front Take the game to them not the other way round x
We have tried 5 at the back with previous managers and generally we scored even less. In theory with Hutton and Clarke going forward it could work but not for me
or even Peter Feely and Richardson, as the headline says, worth every penny... please log in to view this image
It's still hard to believe that Gills had a player the calibre of Peter Feely back in the day, and it has been something that has lived with my memory all these years. He did play for Chelsea but moved because he was competing against the likes of Peter Osgood and Ian Hutchinson back then. For me maybe a complete exaggeration but it's like getting Cole Palmer because he couldn't get in the City team, because of Haaland and Foden - remembering in those days you only had one sub on the bench!
I was at that game in the old Rainham End. The atmosphere, even in such a small crowd, was electric. Happy days.
As a lad I use to keep scrapbook pages similar to those, no idea whatever happened to them - I use to take them from the now defunct Evening Post, which was the paper to have for coverage of Gills games back then, as you might remember, long before the days of the internet. You can just make out the advertisment hoardings for the Evening Post in that picture.
I would love to see the Gills play 2 up front and I think both Wylie and Wakeling could be successfully paired with a bigger man Nevitt, Hawkins in the traditional Big Man little man combo, though I think they could be deployed as pair if Dack was fit to play as the 10. A couple of other 2 man attacks from my time watching Lovell and Crown (neither was a 'big' man) and Marlon King and Rod Wallace in our first championship season.
