When does a good start end and just being good start? For even the most cautious of Gillingham fans must be starting to accept that the this particular good start appears to be progressing into something more substantial.
After the defeat in the last home game against Rochdale, all eyes were now fixed on how the team would react. How one reacts is very important in modern football. Many new manager's seem keen to get their first defeat in, just so they can gauge reaction. Witnessing Brendon Rodgers in Being: Liverpool, as he wrings the positives from his side's opening day 3-0 defeat at West Brom, you could be forgiven for thinking he was hoping they would have shipped another goal, just so they could have something really special to bounce back from.
Gillingham's reaction has been pleasing, with four points from two away games followed by this thumping of a struggling Aldershot side. By the time Danny Kedwell made it 2-0 inside half an hour, one could see the fight had already been beaten out of Dean Holdsworth's team. With the game clearly already won, Gillingham coasted through the second half, wrapping their players up in cotton wool, and instantly replacing two players who picked up yellow cards, rather than risk any continuation of the recent run of reds.
So are Gillingham now good? The league table would certainly suggest so. The cautious element will remind all that it is still early, but the truth is they've played half the teams in the league, and have seen very little to worry about. The squad should be big enough to overcome all but the most savage of injury crisis, and clearly confidence is high. On paper Saturday's match against Burton should provide a sterner test, but at this point it will surely be the visitors who'll approach the match with trepidation.
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