Gillingham head coach Stephen Clemence has plenty to work on and has a full of week of training to try and make improvements

Gillingham head coach Stephen Clemence is hoping the extra time on the training ground this week pays off.

It’s Clemence’s first full week in charge of the Gills without a midweek match and he’ll be hoping to have worked more of his ideas into the players ahead of a home fixture this Saturday against 15th-placed Salford City.

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It’s two weeks in the job for Clemence now and the task of getting the Gills scoring more remains the focus. Goal-shy Gillingham endured another blank in front of goal last weekend.

Clemence said: “I have put some ideas into them and I have seen some success in certain areas but the hardest thing in football is to score a goal.

“The hardest thing in football is to create a chance. There is a lot of work to do in that area but that is what I am here for.

“I am looking forward to the challenge, and I think I can help the boys with it.

“I am hoping we can have some success with it quickly.

“You need that bit of individual brilliance sometimes, for someone to go past someone and cross it and are we crossing the ball enough? No, probably not. Are we playing enough one-twos in wide areas? No, probably not.

“These are things where I have got to get on the training ground and show them and tell them what I want and try and create overloads in certain areas and hopefully we can improve that.”

Clemence is looking to change the way the Gills play, with more possession and attacking intent, but it’s not something he can implement straight away.

“You can’t change everything,” he admitted.

“There was some good stuff going on here before I arrived, not everything needs changing, not everything is broken, but we all know we need to create more and we need to