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- Simon Head: Welcome to Jill's 365 voice notes. Please leave your message after the tone. Just taking our seats at the SMH Group Stadium. Do not get me started on sponsored stadium names. Absolutely hideous. But yeah, feeling fairly confident about this one. Just one change for the Jills. Team news has just come in. Lamin Silla comes in for Will Goodwin in our only swap from Saturday's draw against Northampton Towns. Can't really see. Any change to the system? The new lad Jack Daly is on the bench. He replaces Harry Webster from Saturday. Webster incidentally is here just in case anyone pulls up in the warm-up. Obviously, that will raise questions given that it is deadline day as well, I guess. But yeah, looking forward to this one. Would a draw be a good result in isolation? I think so. Would three points be really welcome? Absolutely. So Tuesday nights are back and we're up at Chesterfield this evening. And I've got to say one thing, all the Jills fans that I've got up there this evening, fair play to you. I doff my hat to you 'cause that is a hell of a commitment. But ⁓ it's a it's a funny one today. ⁓ and I see Albers isn't in the squad again, but we do know that ⁓ that we have got some decent young bloods can fill those gaps for for these period of time. So we've got a player that hopefully will come back for the for the Rochdale game. But nonetheless I've seen the team sheet. We've got Scylla that's starting, good ones on the bench and ⁓ it'd be great if Scylla can and get off the mark, get some goals and ⁓ show him show us what he's made of. ⁓ but I you know, it's one of those where both ⁓ both Chesterfield and Jills at the moment at the start we expected and there's a lot of pressure to to win a game of football and I don't think that's gonna happen today. I don't think any team's gonna win a game of football. I'm going for a draw. But I'm gonna go for one all. That sounds about right, but that's where I see this game going. Cup game tonight away at Chesterfield, who I think will be one of the teams vying for the automatic promotion places this season. Team News is in. As far as I can see, there's only one change to starting 11, which sees the Notts Forest Loney Silla have replaced Goodwin. It'll be interesting to see how that works out with Hale, maybe that injection of pace, that injection of rawness. ⁓ might ⁓ catch Chesterfield unawares. ⁓ very difficult game not helped by the absence of Alvarez again in midfield I think that's a huge loss. Mackenzie tries his best but isn't of the same caliber as Alvarez although obviously Alvarez is still a very young player but has made such a a huge impression. ⁓ Very impressed with Waldock on Saturday who Yeah, put in a real good shift, didn't he? That and in fact every time he plays I think he looks the part to ⁓ to be honest. As I say, tough one tonight. away points always a good point, and I think if we emerge ⁓ with a drawer, whether it's a score draw or a nil-nil, I'll be more than happy. Sorry for Mark Hand get on the end of it. It's really good bowl, and Jills are on the back foot. As it's looking to get a shot from Arcandi. He's laid it off to Manderville, puts it to the back post. Jill's just not getting this clear. This could be a great chance for Chesterfield, and it's in the back of the net. And Jill's defence just went to sleep. But Chesterfield, we've lost it in the centre of the park here, and Jill's just got to be careful. And there's a shot and a save by Wright. And you know what? Chesterfield really could have gone in two up or even three up before half time. Superstorm. Just a reminder, three. And the positive from our point of view at the moment is it's only one nil. We have been absolutely woeful. That was comfortably our worst forty five minutes of the entire campaign. Nothing going forward really apart from a couple of breaks from midfield by Harry Waldock and defensively been all over the show. Gaps between the centre halves are too big. Lee Bonnis has got the run on two of them already, which is a concern. Josh Corrimer with the goal. Did the same thing that he's done all half, and that's get the ball on the left hand side, dip in on his right hand side, and we don't cut it off. Yeah, really, really poor all over the park. Not seen enough from the senior pros to drag the youngsters through this half. Robbie McKenzie limping as well, almost looks a passing just. So there might be change there. And yes, big improvements needed in the second period if we're to get anything from this game. Well, there could be a chance of mistake here by Chelsea for it's Ron Hell. That's through one-on-one. He's been taken down there surely, but can get the shot away himself? And he's deflected in! And Jills have got the equaliser! That's the kind of luck that we need. And Hayer was off the mark this season with a very fortuitous goal, but we're not going to complain about that. He still has stuff to do. He took the shot, it got deflection, went round the goalkeeper, and Jills have equalized. Well, to ⁓ quote the late great ⁓ Jimmy Greaves it's a funny old game, isn't it? It's second half we scored against we're gonna play, you know, gold out of absolutely nothing. And that seemed to galvanize us and Chesterfield suddenly you know, wobbled. ⁓ and you know they came on strong ⁓ towards the end of the second half. But again, yeah, we looked quite dangerous on the counter. I thought McCleary had a huge impact when he came on. I think to be honest, we all would have taken a point before kickoff. ⁓ can't ignore the first half. That that just wasn't good enough. ⁓ second half better but far from faultless. But ⁓ yeah, another point. yeah. Overall could have done better, but it could have been a hell of a lot worse. A game of two halves for me, that one, and in the first half, Gillingham were just absent and it was a real tough half to watch, and nothing really came of it, and and Chesterfield were good for their lead and could have been a couple more if it weren't For a save or two from right and ⁓ a little bit of luck as well. But the second half we came out and ⁓ we changed our way a little bit. We'd had do we dug in and we controlled the game in certain areas and and we had a lot more possession and ⁓ we looked threatening on occasions and ⁓ we then we got our goal and it was ⁓ you know it was a little bit fortuitous, but you make your own luck in this regard. And Hale did that and found the equalizer, and it's good that he's got off the mark and yeah and We held on right at the end. Chesterfield where Pepper and the guard had a lot of possession and it felt very much like attack versus defence, but we pulled through and it is a classic gritty away Tuesday night point. And that we would take all day, particularly at Chesterfield. So am I happy of that one? Yeah, I'll take it. Time is quarter to three. Yeah, just about to park up. Get myself to bed after a long day. But what? That was ultimately quite fruitful, yeah. With the benefit of a few hours on the coach and about 40 minutes sleep, which maybe on delirious. There was actually some really big positives from that tonight. Obviously, Ollie Wright making three or four good saves. Thought Omar Beckles led the two younger centre halves through the game really well, especially second half. We came under the kosh heavily in the final stages. Connor McManus got better as the game went on. ⁓ Middle of the park, probably not as good as it has been receiving. Robbie Mackenzie didn't look fit. Harry Waldock though was solid, but probably not as good as he was at the weekend. Nick Freeman I think can do better for the goal. ⁓ But aside from that I thought he was solid again playing out of position. Ronan's goal obviously will do him the world of good, regardless of the deflection. It gets him up and running from the season. And yeah, there was a couple of bits from Lamin Siller and Will Goodwin that were encouraging again. From the bench, we got more minutes into the legs of Gareth McCleary and Cameron Antween. And then of course we had the bonus late on with the window about to shut. The additions of Eli King looks like a versatile central midfield player who likes to get on the ball. He's arrived on a permanent from Cardiff City. And then Zek Obiero. On loan from Late and Orion who plays slightly higher up by all accounts did really well on loan at Tramria Rovers in second half of last season. So yeah, all in all, a long day performance can be better, but we got a result, and the added bonus was a couple of additions. So yeah, not too bad at all. Night, everybody.