Gillingham 1 Harrogate Town 2: Reaction from manager Mark Bonner after home League 2 defeat at Priestfield Stadium

Manager Mark Bonner admitted his Gillingham team deserved to be booed off after losing to Harrogate Town.

The Gills were a goal up early in the second half but were beaten 2-1 - the third time they’d lost a game in recent weeks after taking the lead.

Bonner said: “We were a disgrace when we went ahead, to be honest.

“I thought the first half was exactly what the game could have been and we had decent enough control of it without threatening too much.

“We started the second half well, got ourselves ahead, had two good moments after that. From that point on, there's a pattern that emerges in the team: we go ahead and throw games away. We've done it way too often.”

Harrogate goals on 59 and 71 minutes cancelled out Tim Dieng’s opener and the Gills found no way of getting back into the game. Josh Andrews had a gift of a chance to level but fired over.

Bonner said: “Probably a bit like everybody else in the stadium, I absolutely hated the last half hour, it was as rubbish as everyone thought.

“We deserve to be booed off because that is miles off a good team there.

“After the first (goal) we had a good moment where Max (Ehmer) needs to slide (the ball) across the box and we maybe get a tap-in and we don't use that.

“Nev hits the outside of the post, so we had a bit of momentum off the back of that, and the goal was a good one.

“It was probably always going to be a bit of a set-play type day, because it was tricky in terms of conditions to play in. You always think the first goal could be important but personally, the team was hopeless in the end. (The) body language, (they) played defeated once we conceded.

“It's just a pattern, it's emerged time and time again. We've got to change it, there needs to be huge change because it