Alex Neil is taking a short-term approach to the run-in, and insists that Gillingham will be a difficult fixture.
GILLS
"I think there’s been a fundamental change in them since Neil Harris went in. I think they’ve become very difficult to beat. I’ve watched about five games. I was at the game on Saturday against Accrington when they beat them, I watched them play against Sheffield on Wednesday when they drew 0-0, I watched them against Ipswich, I watched them against us last time we played them. Yeah they’re a difficult team to beat. They haven’t conceded many goals. Defensively they’ve been strong, they’ve got a threat in transition with the counter attack. They’re things we need to guard against but we also need to play well and create as many opportunities as we can."
FOCUS
"I think we just focus on the next game because after the next game, we’ll have a better understanding of where we stand, where the other teams stand, what’s happening in the table, what the other teams’ fixtures look like and that gives us a clearer picture. That’ll naturally happen as we go from game to game between now and the end of the season. What we’ve got to do is make sure we do our jobs as well as we can and get as many points as we can and that’ll put us in a better position game by game."
AMBITIONS
"There’s a difference between having an ambition, and working towards an ambition, does that make sense? It’s all a process. It’s all small steps. You don’t wake up one morning and get the playoff final the next day or get a promotion the next day. If you don’t do the work behind the scenes and don’t get the processes right, you don’t ever get to that point. So at this moment in time my focus is getting the team as prepared as possible for the game on Saturday and try to win that match. Then hopefully if we can do that it’ll bring us one step closer. The wider picture at the moment isn’t important to me. The immediate is something we need to focus on, not the long term because the fact is with a club like this there is no long term if you don’t get the immediate right."
