Head coach Stephen Clemence admitted Gillingham’s trip to Forest Green was made more difficult by the home side’s change in manager.
They returned with a point following a goalless draw but their preparations were not helped when the hosts appointed player-coach Troy Deeney as their new boss on Wednesday.
That also signalled a shift in formation from Forest Green and it took the Gills a while to come to grips with what they were facing. “I was disappointed obviously not to win the game, that was our expectation coming into it,” said Clemence. “But it’s very difficult when you come to play a team that’s got a new manager, we didn’t have a clue what system they were going to play and the system they did play was a bit of a surprise. “It took a while to get to grips with that in the first half.
The lads did that, we didn’t concede, and I thought in the second half once we made one or two adjustments to their system at half-time, I thought there was only one team that was going to go on and win it. “Unfortunately we had a couple of chances and haven’t taken one of them.