Ady Pennock will be keen to weed out the bad eggs if he gets the chance to continue managing Gillingham.

Pennock’s troubles behind the scenes weren’t helpful as he attempted to pick up the pieces as head coach following Justin Edinburgh’s sacking back in January.

Gills avoided relegation from League 1 on the final day of the season.

Pennock said: “When you do go to a club you want to get rid of the bad eggs, but I couldn’t because we needed a squad.

“It wasn’t a happy changing room anyway. It was so difficult.

“These people were being so disruptive and they were trying to be clever.

“They were saying stuff that I couldn’t hear but I have eyes and ears in that changing room when I am not around.

“They were trying to be clever, but they weren’t.

“I couldn’t do anything about it but they were influencing the young kids in there.

“When you go into a new changing room that can happen because the previous manager maybe had his favourites and others not. You do get that at any new job.

“There was no leadership in there, no togetherness in there at all.

“It wasn’t everyone, but there were some who were poison and that is me being honest.

“They were disruptive with it as well and they didn’t care. That was the biggest thing – they didn’t care what they said and they didn’t care about the club.”

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