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3 days ago | 
kentsportsnews.com | Mike Green
Gillingham players return this week for their pre-season testing before training starts in earnest next week. Ahead of what will be his sixth pre-season at Priestfield, KSN has been talking to midfielder Robbie McKenzie. With the new fixtures released on Thursday morning, we caught up with the Gillingham midfielder at the end of his summer break and he told us, “The summer has been good.
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5 days ago | 
kentsportsnews.com | Mike Green
As Kent basks in the heatwave, spare a thought for our footballers who this week return for pre-season training. We’ve been talking to Gillingham boss Gareth Ainsworth who admitted that the 2026 World Cup Finals mean an earlier than usual start for our Football League Clubs.
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1 week ago | 
kentsportsnews.com | Mike Green
After missing out on promotion last season in the cruelest possible way, Sittingbourne boss Ryan Maxwell has rebuilding to do in the summer that few managers would appreciate as ten of last season’s squad have now moved on from Woodstock.
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1 week ago | 
kentsportsnews.com | Mike Green
With Gillingham players returning for pre-season testing next week, boss Gareth Ainsworth is still looking for new blood for his squad before the season opens at the start of August. With the new season fixtures due out at the end of next week, the Gills boss has been talking to KSN about the Club’s search for the new players. “I get fifty or sixty texts a day this time of year from agents and players,” he admitted.
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2 weeks ago | 
kentsportsnews.com | Mike Green
Four players ended last season being offered a new contract to stay at MEMS Priestfield and so far, three have re-signed for Gareth Ainsworth and will wear Gillingham blue next season. The Gills boss has been talking about the three to KSN and updated us on other player news at the Club.
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2 weeks ago | 
kentsportsnews.com | Mike Green
With still nearly three weeks to go until his first team squad report for pre-season training, Gillingham boss Gareth Ainsworth has been talking to KSN and here he discusses his new look squad as it starts to take shape. Seb Palmer-Houlden is Ainsworth’s first new signing of the summer and has moved to Kent from Championship Bristol City after featuring through last season for Dundee in the Scottish Premier Division.
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2 weeks ago | 
kentsportsnews.com | Mike Green
In the week that it’s been announced that MEMS are back as Gillingham’s new main sponsor and the new kit is due to be revealed, we’ve been chatting to Managing Director Joe Comper. To some, it’s the week that’s only second to the new season’s fixtures being announced… It’s unveiling time for the new Gills kits, with the Club’s three new kits being revealed during the week before they go on sale on Friday from the Club shop.
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3 weeks ago | 
kentsportsnews.com | Mike Green
In the latest instalment of our chat with Gillingham’s Managing Director, Joe Comper, we find out about season ticket sales and scrapping the programme among other things. Last season was a tough one for Gillingham on the field with three managers through the course of the season. But now under the stewardship of Gareth Ainsworth, thoughts are already turning to the new season, and off the field plans are fast moving in the direction of 2025/2026.
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3 weeks ago | 
kentsportsnews.com | Mike Green
With another three weeks before the new season EFL fixtures are due to be announced, KSN has been to MEMS Priestfield to talk to Gillingham Managing Director Joe Comper about all things Gills. In the first part of our conversation, we looked back on last season and a season that could yet be remembered in years to come… “As I look back on last season, I think ultimately it was disappointing!” Comper admitted as we sat in the Players’ Lounge.
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3 weeks ago | 
kentsportsnews.com | Mike Green
For the first time since his side’s agonising Play Off Final defeat to Burgess Hill, Sittingbourne boss Ryan Maxwell has been talking to KSN about what might have been as he begins his search to go one further next season in the Isthmian Southeast and finally win a place in the Isthmian Premier Division. “We had an unbelievable season, didn’t we?” Maxwell said as we looked back on the old season.
