Seb Palmer-Houlden and his Gillingham teammates return to MEMS Priestfield this weekend at the start of three home games in their next four as they look to get back to winning ways at home base.

Their last home game was the 0-3 defeat to Oldham Athletic two weeks ago – a result and performance that no one saw coming and meant the long trip to Barrow last weekend important pointwise!

“It was brilliant to get the points last week – the boys were buzzing!” the striker told KSN at this week’s briefing. 

“Obviously it wasn’t the prettiest of games, but at the end of the day we got the result that we wanted. It’s always a hard place to go Barrow – it’s a long trip especially for the fans – a six-hundred-and-fifty-mile round trip – and to come back with three points… I think that would have been happy in the way we did it in the last minute!!!”

“The big thing was that we kept the back door shut, especially off the back of Oldham which was an eye opener for us, and I think we responded brilliantly to go to Barrow and get the points!”

“When you go anywhere away from home you must be solid to get a point, but to up that and get all three is perfect and everyone likes a last-minute winner! I don’t think it was a game of much quality, I don’t believe they had any chances at all really; that just shows how good we were defensively and as a unit, and then to go out there and score in the last minute – brilliant!”

“The spirit in the dressing room after Robbie’s (McKenzie) goal was amazing – football is mad! There are two sides of the coin though – I think we have been on the wrong end of goals like that this year; it was a scrappy goal, the second or third phase from a corner which was coolly finished.

“It certainly wasn’t a goal that we would have liked to lose to, but when it goes in your favour, it really did lift the dressing room and made the six-hour journey home well worth it with everyone in best spirits… and that breeds into this last week. The suns back out now everyone has a smile on their faces!” 

“Every team in the League makes it a really tough League and every team is hard to play,” Palmer-Houlden continued, “I am not expecting any game to be easy, but the way we started and the way that we train, we are going to give it our all and hopefully we will get the result again!”

“We just try to take each game as it comes, there’s no talk of anything else. We just have to try and beat what is what is in front of us and see what happens. They (Fleetwood) will be a well organised side, tough to break down – it’s a weird League where everyone can beat everyone else but we have to be at our best especially at Priestfield and get the result for the supporters as we all know that Oldham wasn’t good enough so we will be looking to put that right!”