Gillingham manager Justin Edinburgh has vowed to right the wrongs following Saturday’s FA Cup shocker.

The Gills were dumped out of the competition by League 2 strugglers Stevenage, losing 3-0. Edinburgh felt it was the worst performance since he took over in February.

“We have never had anything like it in my reign from the day I took over,” he said.

“I didn’t ever envisage it coming but we are all accountable, that’s myself and the players. From my point of view that won’t be happening again.

“We had great numbers that travelled to the game and that is the first time we have let them down and it is hard to take.

“Where it came from I don’t know but we need to reflect and review, and get back to work.

“I am not detaching myself from it, it’s not acceptable and it can’t happen again.”

Edinburgh has rarely had to criticise his Gillingham side. They went into Saturday’s game sitting third in League 1 having lost narrowly in an exciting game at Walsall the week before.

But the manager knows reputations aren’t made after just a third of a season.

“It is hard and I always have belief in them,” he said. “I have belief because that’s my job and that’s what they have given me. They always do.

“Maybe had one goal gone in early on Saturday we might have rallied but it just was not us and that is what I am bewildered and bemused about.

“We are not on a bad run, we are third in League 1 but we can’t cling onto that, reputations aren’t made in 16 games, they are made over the course of a season and beyond that and we have been reminded of that.”

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