All the lads are buzzing for Millwall on Saturday and there is a good vibe around the changing room.

If we can get three points, then that gives us a massive boost.

It’s great to be back playing again after my knee injury and my main aim now is to keep Gillingham up and do everything I can to make sure they are in League 1 next year, where they deserve to be.

To be back playing is the best outcome I could have had when I first got told that I wasn’t going to play for the rest of the season, once I got my injury back in August.

It was frustrating to have been out so long, you just want to be playing, especially at my age.

It was nice when Gillingham showed interest in me, when I was in the final stages of my recovery, on the hardest part really, the fitness and the running and the gruesome stuff you don’t see.

Mentally it is tough and physically the recovery is tough. There are days when you get bored but I got on with my hard work, went home and rested and did that for six-and-a-half months. I was focused and had my mind set on playing again this season.

It was nice to get the recent international call-up for Republic of Ireland’s under-21s.

My dad’s parents are both Irish, from Dublin. I went over a fair bit when I was younger and it was nice to go back over the other day. My family all went to watch the game against Kosovo and it was good.

I was an unused substitute but there are some more qualifiers coming up and hopefully I can then get some game-time.

There are a few of us from Bournemouth who have been here on loan at different times, myself, Bailly Cargill and Harry Cornick. We live together back in Bournemouth and are good friends.

It’s nice having Harry here and we stay in the same hotel so it’s good to have a bit of company and someone to go out with.

We know that if we go out on loan and do well, then the (Bournemouth) gaffer will give us a chance. He won’t hesitate to put us in.

Read the full column in Thursday's Medway Messenger.