Huddersfield Town 0, Gillingham 0

Jan 3 2006 By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Brown was brought into the action early as Abbott made a bright start to his return, and there were promising breaks but no end product from Jon Worthington and Gary Taylor-Fletcher, who also nodded wide from Abbott's pinpoint cross in the closing seconds of the first half.

Mike Flynn's long-range and tame free-kick straight at Senior in the 52nd minute was a first shot on target for Gillingham, whose 335 travelling fans felt substitute Steve Hislop deserved a penalty when felled by the covering McIntosh late on.

Town kept pushing forward and there were some bright touches and willing running from substitute John McAliskey, but he couldn't force a breakthrough.

Adnan Ahmed fired a volley just wide, Danny Schofield messed up a shot when he had colleagues better placed and, when Booth blasted over with just five minutes to go, everyone knew it was not going to be Town's day.

Whether the Chelsea fixture has proved a distraction we will never really know, but that tie will be over and done with in four days time and, hopefully, it will herald a return to normal service for Town at the business end of League I.

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