Gillingham have 10 games left to save themselves from relegation and defender Max Ehmer insists their fate remains in their own hands.

It’s going to take some effort to escape the drop - the Gills are still 20 points off the magic 50-point mark which most seasons would ensure survival.

Manager Neil Harris has improved results but Saturday’s 3-0 loss to Bolton Wanderers was a set-back.

“It comes down to our results at the end of the day,” said Ehmer, who tasted relegation from League 1 at Bristol Rovers last season.

“If we win our games, we will get out of it.”

He’s right. Thirty points are up for grabs but Gillingham haven’t enjoyed the kind of consistency needed all season.

“We need to make sure that when we play we win,” Ehmer continued. “It is down to us, we have to put pressure on ourselves with the ability we have in the team, and we have to make sure we get out of it.

“We take it game by game and the next match we have is Doncaster.”

The games don’t come any more important. Doncaster are a place and a point behind the Gills, the sort of team that need putting to the sword if the mission to escape is to be successful.

Gills boss Harris had the players back in on Monday, with a morning debrief on Saturday’s loss to Bolton, before concentrating on looking forward from 10am onwards.

“Some days it is going to go for us and some days not,” said experienced defender Ehmer.

“We have to make sure we have more good days than bad. We have to put that behind us.

“It is never nice to lose but makes it slightly more positive that other teams around us have lost as well. It is down to us, we need to get results.

“The manager wasn’t happy (after Saturday’s game) and the boys weren’t happy, but we made it hard for ourselves with some silly decisions and whatever else, but we have to put pressure on ourselves and that is led by the senior boys in the team to make sure that standards are up there.

“It will be a big week for us (the Gills face Charlton and Sheffield Wednesday after Saturday’s trip to South Yorkshire) but we don’t worry about the two games after, we worry about the next one, which is Doncaster away. We will have a game plan in place and be ready to go.

“Whoever we play against, we should be approaching every game the same, it is eleven against eleven and we will be full of belief.”

While the focus for the Gills will be on their own results, no doubt some will have one eye on tonight’s fixtures. Many of their relegation rivals are in action while Harris’ men have a blank midweek.