A lot of what happens down in the lower leagues, gets overlooked due to the focus on the big clubs. As some of you might remember The Gills reduced their playing staff to 7 during the virus, as everyone had to come off the wage bill. This was to Bristol Rovers benefit who picked up two decent players from us in Ehmer and Hanlan.
So we had to build a new team from loans, with help from the development sides of Arsenal, Spurs and Celtic (4 players), obviously this is appreciated. However, the season starts, and after our first league game, against Hull City, we lost a midfielder immediately to an injury during the game. Unknown then but worse was to come, in the League Cup game (Carabao) we lost the other midfielder to a suspected broken leg against Coventry, both these injured players alternated the Captain role.
Evans was left with the stark reality, that on Saturday going to Wigan, we only had around 12-13 players to take! We all know a team can not play 90 minutes with that reality. Thankfully, Coventry have stepped forward after our league cup game against them, and given us Josh Eccles on a season loan, he was seen as probably the playmaker for Coventry in the previous game. BTW we didn't deserve to win, luck for the result was on our side.
Naturally it goes without saying we are grateful to Coventry for stepping in and helping us. Otherwise Steve Evans would have had to look at kids that are not ready for first team football. Evans has done a brilliant job in getting this squad together, he has his haters within football in general, but at the moment, the bad boy has come good.
So we had to build a new team from loans, with help from the development sides of Arsenal, Spurs and Celtic (4 players), obviously this is appreciated. However, the season starts, and after our first league game, against Hull City, we lost a midfielder immediately to an injury during the game. Unknown then but worse was to come, in the League Cup game (Carabao) we lost the other midfielder to a suspected broken leg against Coventry, both these injured players alternated the Captain role.
Evans was left with the stark reality, that on Saturday going to Wigan, we only had around 12-13 players to take! We all know a team can not play 90 minutes with that reality. Thankfully, Coventry have stepped forward after our league cup game against them, and given us Josh Eccles on a season loan, he was seen as probably the playmaker for Coventry in the previous game. BTW we didn't deserve to win, luck for the result was on our side.
Naturally it goes without saying we are grateful to Coventry for stepping in and helping us. Otherwise Steve Evans would have had to look at kids that are not ready for first team football. Evans has done a brilliant job in getting this squad together, he has his haters within football in general, but at the moment, the bad boy has come good.
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'gifted penalties' ... 'bundled home header' ... you watched the whole game too eh? ... well that's dedication... thank you... certainly won't be reciprocating to watch your drop dodgers 
