Gillingam’s new head coach Stephen Clemence must find a way of getting his inherited squad to start scoring

Getting Gillingham to find the back of the net more frequently will be an immediate challenge for the new head coach.

The fans want more exciting football and the goals must follow.

A lack of goals and a lack of striker options was an ongoing headache for outgoing interim Gillingham boss Keith Millen and is something Stephen Clemence will hope he can fix.

Millen’s game in charge against Newport County last Saturday was his last in the league ahead of a new first- team head coach being appointed - and one where the team were goal-shy once again.

The Gills lost 2-0, despite having 17 attempts at goal. Just three were on target.

It’s a problem that hampered former boss Neil Harris throughout his time at the Gills and one the new man in charge will have to fix.

Gillingham are the only team in the top half with a negative goal difference and have scored less than half the total that the leading contenders in the division have managed.

Prior to Clemence’s appointment, there were rumours circulating that out-of-contract striker Lyle Taylor - the former Charlton and Nottingham Forest forward - has been training with the Gills. Fresh faces may be the answer.

Millen, speaking after the defeat to lowly Newport, said: “We are lacking, Oli Hawkins is out injured, Ashley Nadesan is injured, that’s two.

“Tom Nichols was brilliant (on Saturday), he tweaked his back in training, he was really doubtful for the game but he got a load of painkillers down him. I wanted to try and get him on the pitch.

“When you look at the team and the squad, the history of them as individuals, how many real goalscorers are in that group? You are not going to make someone a 20-goals-a-season player overnight.

“We need to look at how we will score goals and