Hess: 'Gillingham are as good as Southend'

 

Gillingham boss Andy Hessenthaler has seen his side fail to win so far this month and only twice in the last nine, and one of those was against Hereford, however he's hanging on to the belief that his tenth placed side are as good as the present league leaders, which is us!

 

The Gills are seven points off the pace, which is nothing in October, but murmurings against the Kent legend are starting to build up, and I suppose attack is the best form of defence, but honestly Hess, don't bring the Shrimpers into it.

 

Hessenthaler told www.kentonline.co.uk:"It shows you, without being disrespectful to Southend, that if they are capable of going on a run, then we are as well. We are as good as any of them and we showed that at Southend earlier in the season. If we had taken our opportunities and not come up against a keeper in fine form and didn’t switch off from a corner, we would have won. They have got confidence and the bit between their teeth and are on a run. That’s all it takes. There is no reason we can’t come into that category."

 

That's a lot of If's, as they travel to Devon to face Martin Ling's Torquay who the Shrimpers face themselves at Roots Hall next weekend.

 

The former Dover boss continued: "Our challenge as a group is to try and bridge that gap. Two points a game will get you promotion, without a doubt, but it might be less."

 

So Hess, as someone wrote once; 'IF you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, don't look to push it on to someone else', or something like that.