Gillingham v Grimsby Town preview: Manager Neil Harris looks ahead to League 2 clash at Priestfield

Gillingham manager Neil Harris is considering whether to shake up his team for the visit of Grimsby Town.

Harris has kept faith with the same team in recent weeks, with just one change to his starting eleven in the last five games. The Gills enjoyed three wins and a draw before Saturday’s defeat at Mansfield.

Grimsby’s midweek visit will be a chance to freshen things up, should Harris choose. Midfielder George Lapslie and forward Aiden O’Brien are pushing for a place in his starting line-up.

Harris is in no rush to pick his team, saying: “I have to see who recovers well and if it means waiting until Tuesday afternoon to decide the team I am happy to do that.

“Everyone wants to play, nobody wants to come out of the team and then watch their mates do well and keep their place, but that is what good squads do. At this stage of the season, in mid February, I have to make sure I have energy on the pitch.”

The Gills didn’t reach the levels they had done in previous games, as they lost to Mansfield, but Harris knows those same players have done well to turn things around after a woeful first half of the campaign.

New additions have helped bring on players who until the start of the year had struggled.

Harris said: “We were so poor first half of the season you feel like you are chasing all the time and any defeat is really disappointing and hurtful but looking at the other results it has not cost us too much.

“We have been to one of the hardest places to go in the division, one of the best teams in the division, one that can certainly get promoted this season and we have come up a little short, it is a little reminder for all of us, in particular myself and the players, that we need to keep getting better.

“We have picked up 10