Some Kent Sports News readers may recognise my by-line from my time covering Gillingham and Kent Cricket for a bit while I was at uni.

That stopped, not because I didn’t enjoy it, but because I graduated, got a job in media, and didn’t have the time unfortunately.

I support both Gills and Kent massively and I miss writing about them. I’m still in contact with the owners of the site, and put an idea to them that I could be a columnist of sorts, once or twice a week, just noting down my opinions and ramblings on whatever is going on with those two sides.

It was agreed yesterday, and I was going to write my first column during the day, but I’m glad I waited because the small matter of a Brad Galinson interview aired in the evening.

I’m as excited as the next person that Brad is with us. It’s obvious to even the most optimistic Gills fans that the club was dying rapidly under Paul Scally and, fingers crossed, we’ve now been saved.

Galinson speaks well from a business point of view. He wants to ‘get the business going again’, to use his words. He likes the catchment area and acknowledges the potential of the club.

I’m sure he has a lot of plans off the field. But right now, his full focus needs to be on improving on-the-field performances and improving them quick.

I was at Colchester and Sutton and watched the Stevenage match on the tv because I simply couldn’t bring myself to make the trip. I’m not proud to admit I’m one of the several fans that sang ‘you’re not fit to wear the shirt’, but we as fans have had enough of what is being produced each week.

Seven goals in 23 games is beyond embarrassing and simply not good enough.

I can’t think of many players I’d keep at this club. I like Dom Jefferies, I like Alex MacDonald and I like Will Wright, but he’s been way off it lately. Jake Turner is a fine back-up keeper too.

Apart from that, this is a truly terrible side, and it needs ripping apart as soon as possible.

I’m in the ‘Harris Out’ camp. I think it’s bizarre that our record – his record – is as bad as it is and he’s still in a job. The players are seriously poor, but he must take responsibility, and I don’t think he’s covered himself in glory with his words in the media and apparent inability to clap fans that give up their time and money to watch the dross his side produce every single game.

But if he’s going to stay, back him and do it quick. That back-to-back against Hartlepool and Colchester in a couple of weeks is huge and we simply need reinforcements for it, or it could, and almost certainly will, be lights out.

Brad seems like a really nice guy. I’ve not met him yet but from his interactions on social media so far and the videos he’s put out he seems to get it. I don’t necessarily mean get English football – he’s got a lot to learn – but he gets what a football club like Gillingham means to its fans and gets that what is going on right now simply isn’t good enough.

That leads me onto Paul Scally, I suppose. Alot of people wanted Scally gone completely from the club, me included, which we’ve not got. He’s a minority shareholder and as far as I understand is there to help guide Galinson by using his experience of overseeing a football club.

I don’t think Galinson has read the room – or heard the stands – when it comes to Scally.

People are thankful for what he did in 1995 – everyone knows how the story goes – but he couldn’t run a modern-day football club. He went on the defensive by attacking fans and coming out with some strange outbursts and he lost his love for it. Apparently not enough to give things up for good.

Galinson speaks highly of Scally, but he’ll learn what the fans really think soon enough.

When he settles down and hears what people have to say, he may change his stance. But for now, Scally is going to be around.

We must accept it. That’s it. It’s good that he’s not in charge anymore but frustrating he’s still around (for now), I get it. But we’ve got our club back. We’re going to move forward.

We’ve got a man who’s, what, 25 times richer – and seemingly a whole lot smarter – in charge now. The business will progress.

How long can people stay away, or breathe (admittedly sometimes deserved) negativity into the club? If you want to stand up for what you believe in and stay away until he’s gone, fine.

I’m no one to tell you that’s wrong. But for me it’s time to get behind this club and help save it from relegation out of the Football League, which would be almost certainly the darkest day in its history. It’s becoming a very serious possibility – and probability.

Picture supplied by Gillingham Football Club.