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On-loan Ipswich Town defender Elkan Baggott setting excellent example to Gillingham squad says manager Neil Harris

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Gillingham manager Neil Harris has told his squad to follow Elkan Baggott’s lead. The on-loan Ipswich defender was again the stand-out performer for goalshy Gills in their away reverse at Doncaster on Saturday.

Results are not breeding confidence within the squad - they’ve won just twice in League 2 all season - so players need to raise their levels individually to help the collective cause. “If you don’t get confidence as a group from results, how do you get it individually?

The manager picking you,” said Harris. “We’ve got a small squad so everyone gets an opportunity, they get a gameplan so they know roles and responsibility and then somewhere along the line you need players to find that confidence and form themselves. “You need a centre-forward to score a goal, to get in the right positions.

I can’t always tell a centre-forward where to run, what to do. It has to be natural instincts sometimes. “Elkan Baggott was immense, the best player on the pitch by a country mile.

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