Morecambe will be the third top team in a week we will have played and if we can make it two wins from the three, then that will be a good return.

We were so unlucky not to come away with something from our trip to Swindon on Tuesday.

We now want to take that performance into the game at Morecambe and if we do, we should come away with some points.

We’re still doing OK and hanging in there and I am sure that we’ll soon go on a five or 10-game unbeaten run. It’s just around the corner.

What we need to make sure we do this weekend is take our chances.

We produced a fantastic battling performance to earn a 1-0 win over Oxford on Saturday.

The referee didn’t have the best of games and there were red and yellow cards brandished around all over the place.

Lewis Montrose’s tackle was a yellow card, not red. He didn’t go in two-footed and their player went over the tackle. It was not that bad. Lewis doesn’t have a bad bone in his body.

That left us with nine men, after Joe Martin’s earlier red card and the clock seemed to tick so slowly for those five minutes of injury time.

The lads turned in a fantastic team effort and myself and the manager were saying it felt like the good old days under Tony Pulis as everything and
everyone seemed to be against us.

We pulled together and the players were saying at the end that the crowd were acting like a 10th man!

We carried that good form into Tuesday’s game at Swindon and we can’t believe we lost.

Their manager Paolo Di Canio said to us afterwards that we were by far the best footballing side his team have played this season and we had more possession on their own pitch than anyone else has but we still lost 2-0, so it was of little consolation.

On another day we could have comfortably won with the chances we had. We were right behind the goal from Matt Ritchie and we could see it swerve and dip in the air before nestling into the top corner. He hit it so well and is unlikely to score one like that again.

The stats showed how well we had done, just like we had at Southend earlier this season but we left with nothing from both games.

Paolo offered us a nice glass of wine after the game but I have to say it was a bit like a circus in his office.

There was a group of fans from Dartford, all wearing West Ham shirts, which caused a stir, and they were in getting autographs and pictures of the Swindon manager.

It’s great for League 2 to have a character like him involved as he is so passionate, like myself and the gaffer are about the Gills.

Football needs passion and we’ve seen that from the our players in recent games and they certainly deserved something from their efforts on Tuesday night. Let’s hope we bring three points back from Morecambe on Saturday.