Preview: Gillingham manager Neil Harris looks ahead to Salford City League 2 trip

Gillingham will play fair on Monday but manager Neil Harris hasn’t ruled out changing his side around for the trip to Salford.

League 2 play-off places remain up for grabs and Gillingham’s opponents are one of them fighting for a top-seven finish. Harris’ team are there to win but have their own ambitions - with a view to next season already.

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Harris said: “We have loads to play for - whether I tinker with the team or formation to look at something else, then that will be my prerogative. Salford might need a positive result to secure a play-off place so they will have to be at it, which naturally means my players will have to be at it as well.

“I shouldn’t have to talk about sporting integrity, certainly about one of my teams, because all managers know that I am very competitive and the message to the players is that first and foremost we do it for oursleves, for personal pride, for the supporters that travel. It is their jobs to get paid to perform to the best of their ability, physically, mentally and technically in any training session or game, and that’s the same for Monday.

“There are rules and regulations saying you have to field a certain amount of players on the previous team-sheet, that doesn’t effect my thinking, if I want to adjust the odd personnel then I will do because that is my prerogative but throwing in four or five youth team players that aren’t ready anyway is not in my thinking.

“I want to win a game, (it’s about) making sure I pick a line-up and a team based on, as always, dealing with Salford’s strengths and they are a very good team. They can attack very well, a big threat upfront [in Matt Smith] and we have to deal with him. Then for ourselves trying