Gillingham manager Neil Harris says it’s too early to take any notice of League 2 table

Manager Neil Harris is reading nothing into Gillingham’s position at the top of League 2.

Gills boast the only 100% record after three games but it’s too early to take any notice of the standings.

Fans are enjoying the moment - singing ‘We are top of the league’ after Tuesday night’s 1-0 win at Sutton - but the boss is playing it cool.

“I don’t look at the top of the table,” said Harris.

“It doesn’t matter if we’re top with three wins or eighth with three wins, the fact we’ve got nine points from three games is a great start.

“We’re not going to keep winning games all season.

“There’s going to be ups and downs during the season.

“When you’re going well, you have to keep amassing points because there’s going to be a blip somewhere along the line.

“All we can do is keep building confidence and momentum.

“I’m very level-headed and I keep my dressing room like that.

“My teams, believe it or not, have always been better in the second half of the season.

“For me, it’s amassing as many points as possible as early as we can and then we start getting to the horrible months of November/December when the weather turns and the pitches get heavy and everyone’s played 25 games in League 2, you start getting injuries and you need points on the board.

“It’s just making sure we’ve got that win-the-next-game mentality and if the football club likes to be at the top of the league, we have to keep winning games to stay there.”

Harris has a figure in mind for when the league table counts for something and Gillingham, who visit third-placed Crawley on Saturday (3pm), are some way off that.

“Twelve games,” said the manager, when asked when their league position does become significant.

“Stevenage got promoted last year I think by picking up