Bradley Dack feels ready to make an impact at Gillingham this season and recalls some good times playing under old boss Justin Edinburgh – 10 years on from his appointment as manager at Priestfield

Attacking midfielder Bradley Dack thinks relegation talk is nonsense and remains driven to try and bring success to Gillingham.

Dack’s not lost his self-belief and feels the only thing holding his own game back is playing time on the pitch, which he hopes can change soon.

His return to the club had been a slow-burner, featuring in nine of the last 10 games after building up his fitness but starting just two of those matches.

Gills’ form has been poor but Dack’s confident he can help turn things around.

He said: “It's been a tough run. I don't think it's through not trying. Obviously, everyone wants to win games and we know we should be in a better place in the league. There's no doubt about that.

“Sometimes it's hard to put a finger on what's going wrong, but we've got to snap out of it quickly and it starts on Saturday (at Barrow).

“There's a team every season that comes late and I'm not saying that's going to be us. We can't say that. We haven't won in a lot of games, so we just have to build on the next game and then the next game.

“We'll be looking up rather than down. Hopefully, we can put a bit of a run together and you never know what happens.

“I want to play a big part in getting this club to the next level, which is a higher league and I've made no secret of that since I've come.

“The aim when I came was to get promotion and at the minute we're miles away from that.

“Once you get into a winning run, there's been lots of teams in the past that have come late. We're probably still not quite out of it but we have to look up rather than down.

“All the relegation talk and stuff like that, that's nonsense really for a club like this.”

Dack joined the Gills on a one-year deal - with the club having the option to extend