"It definitely won't be Adam Miller's final game of the season.  If you had seen the changing room at half-time, our discussion about me bringing him off was quite heated.  He didn't want to come off and he said he would be fine but he took my advice.  You want that from players though, you don't want to tell them you are substituting them and they just smile, you want them to be disappointed.  "Millsy" will get over it and he will get his head down and put the work in with the physio.  By taking my advice, although it wasn't nice for him to have to come off, and by doing his rehab work, hopefully he should be available for Saturday's match at home to Swansea City."



With the Gills taking five points from their last three games, Stimson believes his side have gained momentum at an important time: "I think we have got momentum now and people can see that by the results we have had in recent weeks.  In the weeks prior to that, we haven't taken anywhere near as many points as we would have liked.  We are in a good bit of form but there is still a lot of hard work to be done.  We have given ourselves a better chance of staying up by going level on points with Crewe.  A couple of teams above us didn't pull away after this weekend's results and it could go right down to the wire; the final game against Leeds United at Elland Road.  Next week, the game at home to Swansea should be a good occasion.  They are going for promotion and we'll be trying to get out of relegation.  We are playing against the best team in the league but since we have last played them, we have introduced a few players and hopefully we can get the win that we need.

"It is definitely all-on.  A lot of people in the bookies doing their coupons, they will probably go and back Swansea to win on Saturday but I think a lot of people might've done that when Carlisle came down last week and we surprised them.  We only did that though through the hard work on the training ground and all the hard work that the team put into the 90 minutes of the match.  We have got to do that next week because if we don't, Swansea are quite capable of embarrassing us and popping the ball around us.

"I think we're playing well because of the squad we have got now.  We have Mark Bentley, Nicky Southall, Danny Cullip and Kevin Maher back in the squad now.  The new players are all bonding and everyone is respecting each other.  We have hit a good bit of form and in the bottom half of the table, Bournemouth and ourselves are probably the form teams at the moment.

"We have got to keep Simeon Jackson going.  He is into the rhythm of it now.  We brought him in to score goals and take the club forward.  He has got great potential.  For his size, he holds the ball up well, his football brain is very good as we see when we work with him in training and he plays off the shoulder of the last man - a bit like Jermaine Defoe.  "Jacko" is borderline at being offside at times but he is clever with it as he can get through.  Against Millwall, if I am honest, I don't think the strike partners gave him as much support as they could've.  Dennis was a bit rusty after the bang on his head and Georges came on, did well but not as well as he did on Tuesday night.  Then again, as I said, I thought Millwall's captain at the back was absolutely outstanding, he went and won every ball."

The Gills took over 1300 fans to the New Den and Stimson was full of praise for the supporters and the vocal backing they gave the team: "From the point of view of a Manager or a player, to have 1300 fans signing their hearts out, it means a lot.  They were there Tuesday night when we needed them and to come to a place like Millwall, where the vocal backing of the home support could be intimidating and noisy, to have our own following; they didn't stop singing all the way through the game.  We appreciate that and I think the fans appreciate what we are trying to put into practice now; the desire to wear the shirt with pride and also, on the odd occasion, show some quality.  That is what I am about as a Manager.  First and foremost, give 110 per cent.  If I can get that, I will bring people to the club that want to be part of that and add that little bit of quality to it.

"I've been in the Den when West Ham have played there.  It was very intimidating then.  With this game, the atmosphere was buzzing and that is what I want.  It doesn't happen on my head but on other peoples heads, the hair stands up!  The atmosphere gets you going and that is what you want to be involved in.  I say to our players that you want to be involved in these games and not where I have been.  No disrespect but I've been away to Northwich Victoria, Farsley Celtic and Bognor Regis Town.  You'd much rather be coming to Millwall, Leeds United, Swansea City and Nottingham Forest.  If you're a proper player, you want to be involved at those grounds and come away from there with your chest out and thinking 'hey, we put on a good performance there'.  I think we did that against Millwall."

The Gills take on league leaders Swansea City at the KRBS Priestfield Stadium on Saturday and Stimson explains that his side will approach that game as they do any other as they look for the points to escape the relegation zone: "There is no difference in how we approach games at home to ones away from home.  We set out to win every game.  The away form has been poor and the results have been poor.  The point at Millwall is a start.  It was eight games before this one that we last got something from an away game.  We just need to take this result into our next away game at Bristol Rovers.  When that comes round, we'll be focused on winning the game and trying to get the three points.

"We need 12 points to definitely be safe!  We're just going to go for them starting with the best team in the league.  We're going for three points on Saturday and if we get them, we'll be delighted.  If we only get one, we'll take that on board and when you get every point, you're asking questions of other people and they have to come up with the answers.

"We are at home and with the way I like to play, we'll be taking the game to them.  We'll be showing the respect they deserve because of where they are but once the referee blows that whistle, the word respect goes out of the window because it is about us surviving and getting three points.  I think the best way for us to do that is to go on the front foot and ask their defence some questions."

Defender John Nutter and goalkeeper Simon Royce missed the match at the New Den and Stimson revealed the latest on their respective injuries: "Johnny Nutter was very close to playing.  He trained on Friday and started the session but he had to pull out with a little twinge.  This game wasn't the be all and end all.  If we had won, it wouldn't have made us safe as there are still twelve points to play for.  Once John declared himself unfit, Barry Fuller has played in that position for me before and I thought with him going to Millwall, as a West Ham boy, he'd be up for the physical side of it.  I thought he had a good game and in the end, he got two shots on target.

"It is taking a lot longer than we would have liked with Simon Royce.  With a goalkeeper, as I have said before, they do a lot of taking off and landing.  He has got to be 100 per cent.  We'd like him back but I cannot take anything away from Derek Stillie.  He hasn't done badly and he had no chance with the Millwall goal as it was cleanly struck.  We'll monitor "Roycey" throughout the week."

Adam Miller played the match minus his flowing locks but Stimson hopes that Miller won't be the Gills' version of Samson: "It might have an effect.  Adam and I talked about that a few weeks ago.  He is a believer that when his hair is long, he plays well.  In the last two or three games, he has been very disappointed with his form and when we turned up at the hotel, he has shaved his hair off.  He must've had a mad ten minutes on Friday night!  If I had hair, I wouldn't have it like that!"