Coach Steve Lovell wants more from the Gillingham players after they lost their fourth straight game on Saturday.

The Gills looked to have secured a last gasp point at Stadium MK, only to concede for a third time in the dying seconds to go down 3-2.

That result sees Gillingham drop to within one place of the League One relegation zone and Lovell feels it’s about time some of the players start showing more for the club to get themselves out of this perilous position:

“Some of them have got to start showing a little bit more, for the supporters, the club, their families and for us. They have to.”

“The five games coming up are massive. The boys have got to try and get us out of the mess we are in.”

“We won’t change our attitude. We are all together in this and we are fighting towards what we want to do. The boys have to help us. They are the ones who are doing it on the Saturday and if we have a positive five games then we will get out of it.”

Lovell was especially disappointed given The Gills had clawed their way back into a game they trailed 2-0 after just ten minutes:

“To come back after being two-nil down, equalise after working really hard in the second half, and then concede in near enough the last minute of the game again is just unbelievable really. It’s sickening.”

“It shouldn’t be that we go two goals behind before we start playing. They can play – they’re a decent group of young men, but it’s no good just coming out for 45 minutes and doing it.”

“Their goals should have been stopped, they come from people not running with their markers. The second goal was a knife through butter, straight through the middle.”

With just five games left to play this season and Millwall coming to Priestfield on Saturday, Lovell feels Gillingham need to stay together:

“We’ve got five massive games to come now. We’re a team in there, we’re a group in there, we’re all together in this and we’re all fighting together to get what we want. If we can get that help and make it a positive five games then we will get out of it.”

“There’s not a bad egg in the dressing room, there’s not a bad person; they all want the same thing but they’ve got to start taking responsibility on the pitch. They’ve got to look at themselves, roll their sleeves up and dig in.”

Certain sections of the travelling support on Saturday booed their team off at full time and Lovell understands their frustrations:

“It’s fantastic to have the amount of supporters that we had. I would have been booing with them after that first-half performance. The second half was better and if we had got a point out of the game we would have been happier.”

“It’s a club that we all love. My involvement with the club goes back years. We’ve played for this football club, we’ve been successful at this club. We know what it takes to win games and send the fans home happy, so you can imagine how it feels when we’re standing there after 10 minutes.”

Lovell, Ady Pennock and Jamie Day have this whole week to try and address this slide. By the time they face Millwall on Saturday, they could be in the bottom four with Shrewsbury Town playing their game in hand, ironically against Millwall too on Tuesday night.

With their fate starting to fall into others’ hands, Gillingham need to start picking up results and fast.