Gillingham manager Mark Bonner still has lots to do as he attempts to find consistency in his League 2 team

Gillingham manager Mark Bonner’s hinted at making changes in January.

The transfer window is just a month away and after another painful weekend, Bonner’s keen to see which players are up for the fight.

Last Saturday’s 2-1 home defeat to lowly Harrogate was another blow to a team that started the season as one of the division’s promotion favourites.

Since the end of September, they’ve taken just four points from a possible 24. It’s far from promotion form and Bonner knows it needs to change.

He said: “The project’s big and we need to keep adding to the squad because after 16 games we’re showing too many patterns of the team that’s been average for the last couple of years and if we want to be a better team than that, we’re going to have to change things quite a bit.

“When we’ve played the top teams and we've had a bit of fight in us and we’ve got ourselves ahead, that hasn't been the case at all, it’s been completely different. That is a mentality thing.

“There’s no good being a good team one week and a bad one the next. That’s a waste of everyone’s time and money. What’s the point?

“We’re either going to do it properly or we’re not. The players will either do it or they won’t do it and I’ll either be here to do it or I won’t be but in the end, it’s one of them.”

What’s frustrating the fans and manager alike is the team’s inability to build on taking the lead. They’ve gone ahead in five of their last six league games, but won just once, with a 1-0 victory against Port Vale.

Fans voiced their displeasure at Priestfield as the team were booed off after the final whistle.

Bonner said: “Whether it’s a fear in the team, whatever it is, it doesn’t matter what it is. We’ve got to work out what it is. We’ve got to work out who