Manager Neil Harris insists there won’t be a knee-jerk reaction to Saturday’s disappointing display. Since mid-January his new-look side have quickly pulled clear of relegation trouble but he expected a few bumps in the road.
A 2-0 weekend loss to Walsall was certainly one of those. Tonight the Gills get a chance to prove it was a blip when they host a Crewe side who sit 18th in League 2 - four points better off than the Harris’ side - but without an away win in four months.
Crewe’s last win on the road - one of only two away successes this season - came at Swindon on November 19. The three wins from their last 18 games in the league have all come at home.
Talking about his own side, Harris said: “We are still in an extremely healthy position in the league but we need to make sure it stays that way and we do that by having better standards to training than what I saw last Thursday.” The Gills boss had been critical of the training leading up to that game at Walsall.