Boss Steve Lovell is hoping some key men are fit to return this weekend.

The Gillingham manager has been plagued by injury issues this season and, although it won’t be a clean bill of health for the trip to Doncaster, there is optimism in the air.

Regan Charles-Cook and Billy Bingham are both in with a shout while Josh Parker is back with the squad following international duty.

Lovell said: “I think we are now coming out the other side with the injuries and hopefully we will be able to pick up now and get the results we need.

“Somebody was saying the other night that Wolves (sitting seventh in the Premier League) have picked the same 11 for there eight league matches which is a record and that is amazing.

“I don't think I have done it since the first two games of the season.

“When you get to play with the same people you get an understanding. Whenever I played upfront with someone I like to stay playing upfront with them but how many times have we switched our front men? We have had to do it.

“We have been putting people in places where perhaps you don't want them playing, where you know you won't get the best out of them, and to be fair to Dean Parrett he has played number 10 in the last couple of games but he is more of a number four.”

Lovell still has some players out injured, with Gabriel Zakuani a doubt after limping off with an ankle injury last weekend. Dean Parrett looks to have done something more serious and the club are wary of ligament damage, with Lovell expecting him to be out for at least ‘two or three weeks’.

Striker Brandon Hanlan is injured but making quicker than expected progress. He was initially looking to be out for a month.

With Parrett injured, youngster Bradley Stevenson is pushing for a first start in the league, with Lovell admitting he was considering starting the 20-year-old at Doncaster.

Changes could happen elsewhere as the manager was unhappy with some of their defensive play against Southend and Connor Ogilvie could be the man to replace Zakuani.

He said: “We have conceded too many goals and I think there are players that deserve to have a go in certain areas. We can't defend any worse than perhaps we have done, not throughout the whole of games, but just parts of games.”