Football Season Review

Gillingham are coming from a thoroughly disappointing season, which saw them enter the campaign with promotion hopes but get worse and worse as time elapsed, eventually escaping the relegation by only a point. They started the season reasonably well, but a good opening month was all that they could manage and it soon became obvious that a repeat of the 2015/16 season, in which they pushed for promotion, would not be on the cards, with Bradley Dack looking like nothing like the player he was a year earlier and the squad as a whole struggling. The Gills opted to part ways with their highly-rated boss Justin Edinburgh in the first week of the new year and replace him with Ady Pennock, but it is hard to claim that the change was vindicated, as the Gills' claimed their first win of the year in the last week of February and feared relegation until very late on, managing to beat the drop by the finest of margins. One could point towards all the injury problems that they had as one of the reason for their struggles, but this does not change the fact that they are definitely a club in a negative trend that has been getting consistently worse since midway through the previous season. Pennock therefore has a big job over the upcoming summer if he is to stop the rot.

Player of the Season: Josh Wright