Productive month puts K Sports clear
GILLINGHAM: EASYGOING STYLE SECRET TO STEVE’S SUCCESS Southern Counties East
Steve Lovell believes the fun-factor has been a key ingredient for Gillingham’s upturn in form. The caretaker-manager oozes positivity and that has been rubbing off on the players. After seven points from four games in League 1, Lovell is in charge of the FA Cup first round match at home to Leyton Orient on Saturday. It’s already looking like a twohorse race for the Division 1 title.
K Sports remain top after a 2- 0 win at SC Thamesmead on Saturday.
They’re three points clear of second-placed Punjab United, then there’s a six-point gap to Snodland who have played more games.
Sports avenged their only league defeat of the season with Ashley Cooper’s early goal and a Caine Smith strike.
Boss Kris Browning said: “We played really well and deserved to win. I’m surprised there’s such a big gap between it’s nice to be on a high. Hopefully now we can get a bit of luck in the FA Cup, which I haven’t seen a lot of since I have been in the first team. Hopefully this may be a different year.
“I’ve scored in the FA Cup and that was about my only highlight but that was against Brackley and we lost. I would like to get a few He said: “If I enjoy it then the players enjoy it. It rubs off on people. The boys are decent, they are good on the ball and they are enjoying it.” Players are also less likely to get the hairdryer treatment, with Lovell preferring a more measured approach when it comes to criticism. He said: “People don’t want to make mistakes, they don’t want to do things wrong. first and second and the rest.
“Us and Punjab are clearly in front but we’ve just got to keep winning.
“We played seven games in October and won six, with the only defeat coming in the FA Vase, so it was a good month for us.”
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Snodland lost ground after a 3- 0 defeat at Fisher. They host Kent Football United this weekend. host Stansfeld on “I will only shout at them if they don’t put in the effort. If they don’t put in the effort then they won’t be on the pitch.” Lovell has gone from a rank outsider to get the full-time manager’s job to being the new odds-on favourite, despite out-of-work manager Graham Westley continuing to monitor Gills’ progress from the stands.
Two late goals distorted the scoreline as Bearsted lost 3- 0 to Crowborough in the Premier Division last Thursday.
Crows – playing the final match of their groundsharing arrangement at Maidstone’s Gallagher Stadium – took the lead with Jason Barton’s seventh-minute header.
Ross Treleaven struck from 20 yards as Crowborough went 2- 0 up with 10 minutes left.
It was all over two minutes later, Sam Crabb the scorer after Scott Andrews’ double save from Henry Muggeridge.
Bears, in seventh, go to 12thplaced Whitstable on Saturday.