Hill – It Should’ve Been Protection Day

Manager Keith Hill has said that with how obvious it was that it wasn’t our strikers day against Gillingham, he needed more from the defence.

Speaking to the press after the one all draw that saw us dominate large parts of the game but simply fail to build on our early advantage, Hill explained.

‘I was reasonably happy with the performance and the chances created. On another day that could easily have been a 4-0 win. What I’m annoyed about is the fact that it clearly wasn’t the strikers day, so we had to make sure it was protection day. Our defence had to look after out strikers. The goal was very scrappy and our young players have got to protect the strikers better than they did.’

Hill continues to say that really it should’ve been a game where the strikers came in to the dressing room at full time and shook the hands of the defence telling them thankyou given the chances we spurned because it would’ve been the defenders clean sheet that won us the game in reality, but that didn’t happen and for the manager that has to be a learning curve for our backline moving forward.