Gillingham 0 Rotherham United 2: Neil Harris reacts to their defeat at Priestfield and relegation from League 1

Gillingham manager Neil Harris admitted the same old issues he inherited hurt them on the last day as they suffered relegation.

His team needed a result against Rotherham United at Priestfield but a 2-0 defeat saw them slip out of League 1 on goal difference.

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Harris has been in the job since January 31 and took the team from 10 points adrift to within a chance of survival on the last day, but the team fell just short.

Suggesting it was a good attempt on the day, Harris responded: “A good attempt sums it up since February 1. Before that it has been nowhere near it has it?

“Ultimately, I am the manager of the football club and I take responsibility on behalf of the football club for letting our fans down this season.

“The standards, the professionalism, the recruitment, it hasn’t been good enough, and we have paid the price.

“We made some quick gains, we have been relegated on goal difference, with 40 points, we haven’t got to 45-46, or 47 points, which you normally need in this division, so we have gone as far as we can.

“Do I look back at individual games and think, ‘should I have changed shape there, should I have done that slightly quicker?’ Of course I do, because I care, I look at myself in the mirror before analysing anyone else in the stadium.

“The games we have thrown away have, in my opinion, come from individual errors. Did you see Rotherham making an individual error? No. Did we? Yeah, have we? Yeah. That comes with you get what you pay for.”

It was from a corner that Rotherham scored their first on Saturday and in the second half when the Gills opened up in search of a way back in, the visitors quickly scored a second.

Harris, commenting on the opening goal, said: “First