Montrose eyes promotion charge

Lewis Montrose is confident Gillingham can mount a serious challenge for promotion over the second half of the season.

Montrose, 23, moved to Priestfield from Wanderers over the summer having helped the Buckinghamshire club secure automatic promotion to League One. The midfielder scored his third goal of the season in Saturday's 4-1 victory over Bristol Rovers, a result which extended Gills' unbeaten league run to five games and left them occupying the final play-off berth, seven points off the top three. He told the club's official website: "We're a good team but we don't want to get carried away. It's a good run but we want to keep focused and take each game as it comes. We want to get as many points as we can to get to where we want at the end of the season. "Everyone knows where we want to be and being in the play-offs isn't a bad place at this moment in time. We'll kick on again in the second part of the season and we'll be up there. In each game you can only get three points so you can't look too far ahead. You have to look at the very next game as that's most important. "This squad is probably better (than the one I was in last year), we had a great squad at Wycombe and we have a great one here. Whoever gets injured we have another good player to come in. Whichever 11 play, the team is still as strong as it was."