The Gills finished off the 2024-25 season on a positive note as they claimed a hard-earned 1-0 away win at League 1-bound Port Vale. On a day that was supposed to be a celebration of Vale’s promotion-winning season – and, potentially a championship-clinching win – the Gills played spoilers as they defeated the Valiants courtesy of a peach of a strike from Aaron Rowe.

It meant the Gills finished the season on a 13-match win streak, with the last nine of those games coming under the management of new boss Gareth Ainsworth, who has overseen a complete transformation in the team’s performances on the field.

Now, with the 2024-25 season officially in the books, the attention turns to the summer, and an off-season that promises plenty of changes, with a host of players out of contract, and a good few of them set to be released to make space for incoming reinforcements to key areas.

On this special end-of-season pod, the ME7 team looks back at the win over Port Vale, then assesses the squad situation heading into what should be a busy few months.

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