Gillingham’s transformation has only just begun, says manager Neil Harris.

Three new faces in the team at the weekend made a huge difference but there’s more to come. The Gills remain bottom of the league - despite a 2-0 win over Hartlepool - but fans are dreaming of better times ahead.

Harris said: “We are a transformed football club, we look like a different team, but are we the finished article? No. Nowhere near. That’s just one game.

“I said to the boys (on Saturday), enjoy it, we’re moving in the right direction but there’s a lot more to come from us.

“We are not the finished article, there are more players to come. There will be adjustments to style of play but that is more of a Neil Harris team and what a Gillingham team should look like, that was the atmosphere I want my players to play in and the performance I want my players to give the fans.

“I understand where we are, that we are bottom because we have been the poorest team in the league, we will continue to get better. I avoided the league table after Rochdale beat Bradford [a result which left the Gills six points from safety last week]. I will avoid looking. All I can do is make us better and we know where we will end up if we keep winning games.

“When we can’t win a game we need to be really hard to beat, we have to have that mentality, we are not going to win every week, I am not going to get carried away with one win, we need that level of performance in every game.”

Harris had to wait patiently for the takeover at the Gills - he’s admitted that’s the reason he came.

It’s been a tough slog for the former Cardiff City and Millwall manager but the 45-year-old has a spring in his step again as he looks to rebuild a team that have been the worst in the Football League.

He said: “I have had an energy and a buzz about me and it has rubbed off on my players, we are rejuvenated as a football club, that comes from new ownership.

“Players are reading social media and seeing the support we are now getting from the fans and what they are believing again.

“I can enjoy my job again, it has not been enjoyable, it has been really tough, we can all enjoy it, people in the offices, it has all changed. There is a buzz about us again.”

Harris started new signings Oli Hawkins, Timothee Dieng and Tom Nichols against Hartlepool. They lifted the fans and the players around them.

“It was everything I hoped for,” Harris said. “We deserved the points, we were the better team. Players like Tim and Nico and Hawks, I have seen these players over the years and have looked to recruit these players in the past. I might have tried before in the past and failed at different clubs.

“I know their capabilities and strengths. I said to the group, there is an air of change within the football club, in the town, there is a change but we have to make it happen, the players made it happen.

“There was a buzz and we played against a team that were struggling at the wrong end of the table. We play Colchester and Swindon and then Stockport and Salford and Orient, we are going to have to be better but we will get better, every passing day we will improve as a group.”