It was a crisp April afternoon as the Gills and Clarets’ staff took their seats in the Priestfield dugouts. As expected, Ronnie and Stan spent the few seconds reacquainting themselves with members of the Burnley backroom staff. After a minutes silence, it's down to business. 
Stan seems to have found the groove left in the wall by Wayne Jones' arm, as he gets comfortable, leaning against the wall as he views proceedings out on the pitch.
First Half Highlights
The first half starts quietly without much action from either bench, but it only takes a moment of inaction from Nyron for Ronnie to be up on the touchline, barking at him to move further upfield.
A Douglas miss has Stan shouting profanities. Then suddenly the away bench springs into life as James O'Connor swan-dives spectacularly in our penalty area. The referee Ray Olivier has waved play on. Shouts of "Dive!" and "Cheat!" emit from the Medway Stand faithful.
Cotterill turns fuming, "So why wasn't he booked then?"
"Bloody should have been!" and "You were lucky!" come the replies from the Medway Stand.
Stan takes up his second favourite position, on the edge of the pitch just outside the technical area (heaven help any fourth official who asks him to step back!), screaming at Mama to liven up, which he duly does. Good to see the players responding to what he wants.
Once or twice the ball flew off the pitch into the Medway Stand, where on a couple of occasions a Gills fan would leap out of his seat and produce a textbook header. Cotterill showed that he had a sense of humour, laughing at the antics of our fans whenever a ball came toward them.
Second Half Highlights
Stan's back in the groove! Coat off, ready for action. This half he really means business!
There is a throw in by the dugouts, McEveley throws to Henderson at chest height, which for some reason Darius decides to knock back to McEveley. It's intercepted and put out for another throw.
"GET HOLD OF IT DARIUS!" yells Stan.
"I was giving it back!" replies Darius with a cheeky grin.
"I don't want you to give it back, I WANT YOU TO BLOODY HOLD IT!"
Point made, cheeky grin wiped off face. Next throw in - ball held.
A few minutes later, some great passing sets up Darius, who jinks across the 18 yard box and curls a fantastic shot round Jensen into the back of the net. Cue delirium in the stands. Ronnie and club physio Simon Webster are on the pitch dancing like men possessed!
A throw in decision goes the way of Burnley. Stan is not happy and sends his bottle of water on a one-way trip to oblivion up the steps of the dugout. (Richard Hill's water bottles frequently used to clear the rear wall and end up in row E!)
Mama beats the offside trap and crosses only for Darius to trip over the ball with only Jensen to beat.
"Offside!" protests Cotterill.
"Shut up!" responds the Medway Stand in unison. He duly turns his back on us. Was it something we said?
A drop ball occurs right in front of the home dugout after we kick it out to let a Burnley player receive treatment. Burnley want to challenge for the drop ball.
Ronnie doesn't like this, and says so, which prompts Micah Hyde to question both the big man's weight and parentage in one colourful phrase. Brave or foolish? You decide. Ronnie just nods and smiles at him. Card marked!
With time running out, the ever improving Ian Cox dithers on the ball and subsequently loses it to a Burnley player. Stan's up on the touchline performing what looks like a tribute to The Who’s guitarist Pete Townshend by windmilling his arms towards the opposition's end of the pitch.
"JUST F***IN' KICK IT!" he bellows.
And with that the time is up. The crowd erupts. Three points. Thank you very much!
Heckle of the Week
Medway Stand favourite Brian revises the match official's names before every game so he can offer them a piece of his mind throughout. At Burnley he was very quiet, but right at the end of the game he didn't disappoint. As he booked Byfield he could hold his silence no longer:
"Olivier you are rubbish! You're even worse than the last time you were here!"
Seeing the last time Mr Olivier reffed at Priestfield he gave Leon Knight a ridiculous penalty, being worse takes some doing.
Insight of the day
Ronnie Jepson's nickname for Darren Byfield is "Bye Byes"