Bradley Dack’s discipline record is no problem for Gills manager Justin Edinburgh.

Dack has picked up eight bookings including five in his last eight appearances.

It means the midfielder, who has already hit 10 goals this season, is now two cautions away from an automatic two-game ban.

But Edinburgh doesn’t want to take that edge away from a player who has been one of League 1’s stand-out performers this season.

Edinburgh said: “That is how he plays, he plays on the edge and he is full of energy.

“If I try and curb that then I am taking something out of the player that you try and put into other players.

“We obviously don’t want him to be petulant and get booked for dissent or anything like that but if he is making tackles and that is how he plays, then I don’t want to take that out of him, that is just part of the parcel.”

The majority of Dack’s bookings have been for fouls.

“He will learn and get better with timings of tackles and where to make them,” said Gills boss Edinburgh. “But I certainly won’t be looking to curb that, it’s what he is about. He is infectious and plays off the front foot.

“It is something that is in him and you want to channel it perhaps rather than curb it.”