Gillingham manager Mark Bonner is keen to get back to action as they look to return to winning ways at Bromley

Gillingham manager Mark Bonner knows the best way to answer the critics.

His Gills team came under fire last time out as supporters vented their frustration following a home defeat to Harrogate. A busy December, with six games, gives them ample chance to get back in the promotion hunt.

They head to Bromley tomorrow (Wednesday) looking to banish the memories of being booed off last time out.

Bonner said: “The only place you can ever prove yourself is in your performances and with the results. That's how that works.

“We finished that game looking defeated and deflated, out of ideas and out of energy.

“You can never accept that as a player, as a coach, as a manager, as a supporter at all.

“[I have] absolutely no problem with people venting frustrations.

“I also believe - just as a bit of a football fan myself - that if I buy a ticket to go and watch the team, in my head, my psychology is I'm 100% for my team until the final whistle blows and if at full-time I'm not very happy with it, then I have every right to say it.

“But throughout the game, you need people with you the whole time. I think it's fine when it is like that at full-time.

“If it's ever unfair, I'll always probably bite back a little bit. I always try to be really honest with the feedback, and I often get credited for being honest until people don't like the things that I say. But you can't have it all ways.

“Sometimes I'll say things that people agree with, disagree with, do like, don't like. In the end, none of the talking stuff really matters.

“The consistency as a team has got to improve because we've been up and down a little bit too much.

“We almost turned a corner with a couple of good performances, chipped away with some points and a good couple of