Midfielder Lewis Montrose has called on his Gills team-mates to "pull together" as they look to get back on track against Accrington Stanley on Saturday.

Last weekend's defeat to AFC Wimbledon made it three defeats in a row in all competitions, and the manner of the loss left a particularly bad taste for the Gills.

But Montrose, who won promotion from League Two with Wycombe last season, is adamant that defeat is not a death knell for his hopes of a second successive promotion from this division.

"Promotion wasn't lost last Saturday and it won't be won this Saturday," he said. "There's 20 more games and we've got to pull together and keep putting points on the board and if we do that, we'll see where we end up at the end of the season but I think we can get promoted.

"We're all pulling together and focusing on the game ahead.

"We've been working on various things and we're all working hard to get a result at Accrington."

It is the start of a new era at the Crown Ground after long-serving manager John Coleman's departure this week.

Leam Richardson has been placed in caretaker charge of the Reds, and Montrose admits that could be a factor in how their opponents play.

He said: "The caretaker manager is going to want to put his own stamp on the club and that might give the players a little lift because they will want to impress him as he might want to change the personnel and see things differently.

"But we don't need to worry about them, we need to worry about what we're going to do.

"What we do is the most important thing and we want to try and get three points at the weekend.

"We know they're a good team. There's a lot of good teams in this league, you can't take anyone lightly and obviously we're preparing hard for the game because it's a tough game.

"It's a hard place to go and they're a good team, they play football and we've got to go there and roll up our sleeves and get three points."

The players were in on Sunday to watch the DVD of last weekend's defeat, and despite the obvious negatives, Montrose insists there are positives to be taken - and believes the spirit in the camp can help the Gills succeed for the rest of the season.

"There were definitely positives," he said. "We came in at the weekend to watch the game and there were positives, we played some good stuff at times and we scored three goals, so we've got to take the positives as well as the negatives.

"We've got to learn and move on from that now.

"The team spirit is important, not just for this game but for the rest of the season. We've got 20 games left and I think each one is going to be a hard game and we need to pull together in each one - not just Accrington, there's going to be other games where we're going to have to roll our sleeves up and grind results out."