Gillingham manager Mark Bonner watched his team lose 3-0 to Bromley on Thursday night and knows things need to change

Manager Mark Bonner admits it’s a mess at Gillingham and has outlined how he plans to change things for the better.

The Gills slumped to their third successive defeat on Thursday night with a 3-0 home loss to Bromley - that followed defeats against Wimbledon and Colchester over the Christmas period.

“It's a mess at the moment,” Bonner admitted, following their latest setback.

“The team looks a mess. So many ins and outs, chops and changes, morale low, loads of frustrated people. Me with the players' inconsistencies, the players’ with the inconsistency of coming in and out of the team and not having runs and things changing.

“A little bit of that is down to necessity, of who can do what and players coming back from injury, and a tight time frame of game schedules - but nobody cares about that.

“What can we do? We can try to find a consistent team that can play together, which prior to Boxing Day we did and it returned us two wins and a draw, and then we took that team into Colchester and the inconsistencies of our level was shown.

“Since then competitive, but not enough in the Wimbledon game, and then lots of changes (on Thursday) at the start and then it looks like that. It looks disjointed.

“It's certainly not the intention to be one nil down after six minutes because they just run harder and faster than us and that's not effort, that's just being able to do it really. All the flaws are exposed.

“It's January and I think everybody would probably recognise that over a few windows the dynamic of the squad and the squad needs improving and changing. A combination of lots of things really in terms of what we can do.”

With the January transfer window open, the Gills are in the market for new players, but must also offload