The Gills Independent Supporters’ Club enjoy positive meeting with Priestfield owners Brad and Shannon Galinson

Gillingham’s long-established supporter group are thrilled that their voices are being heard under the ownership of the Galinsons.

The Gills Independent Supporters Club held a “positive, productive and enthusiastic” meeting with the club’s owners last week with the hope of “working together in the future for the benefit of all supporters of Gillingham Football Club.”

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Spokesperson for the GISC, David Garth, came away from last week’s meeting feeling upbeat about the club-supporter relationship.

Mr Garth said: “There's no question that we feel they are completely committed in every way, shape and form to making Gillingham a better club for fans both on and off the pitch really.

“There's a few things that the club are doing that will impact on what we're doing but the nice thing was that their thoughts and our thoughts, although all made separately, we sort of said, ‘that's funny, we're thinking the same thing.’ That's really good.

“It was so nice to have that sort of rapport.

“We want to become a bigger voice for the benefit of the fans, but also for the benefit of the club, because it's a two-way street, isn't it?

“It is clear that they're trying to do as much as they can, but in a very measured way. They are not just chucking stuff at it and hoping it works, they are thinking very carefully about the future and the way that Gillingham Football Club will progress and that became obvious.

“Like with the transfers, they are not just chucking money at it and hoping it works, they are doing it in a proper, professional business-like manner which I think gives us an awful lot of comfort for the future. It really does. I am full of enthusiasm for the whole thing.

“It's really refreshing