In that one game on Tuesday night, we were put through every emotion possible. It was a crazy game and who would have thought a midweek match against Hereford would have ended up being so spectacular.

I had phone calls and texts from friends, former colleagues and the press the following day – everyone in football seemed to be talking about us.

It was just a game you couldn’t take your eyes off and I even had John Hodge, who many Gillingham fans will remember fondly, contacting me for the first time in years saying he was jumping up and down with emotions in front of the television.

Going two goals down in the first seven minutes left us in disbelief. Their lad Tom Barkhuizen was causing problems and he is a player who came on our radar in the summer, but went onto join Hereford from Blackpool for the season.

He played well on Tuesday but then when he played against us last time, when we won 6-1 in September, he was nowhere near as influential.

On Tuesday we felt that young Jack Evans could have been helped out a lot more by his team-mates. Someone needed to take responsibility.

We took Jack off at half-time which was the right thing to do and he got plenty of support from the lads in the dressing room. He just needs to keep his chin up and there is every chance he could be playing again on Saturday.

Let’s just hope it’s a nice calm 1-0 victory over Plymouth.

What we do know is that like Hereford, they will be scrapping for their lives, as while we are going for promotion, they are looking to stay in the Football League.

We had a good look at the DVD of Tuesday’s performance and we’ve got to retrieve the defending manual because that certainly appeared to go out of the window.

At least we gave the fans something to celebrate in the end and I can’t remember an atmosphere at Priestfield like that in many years.

At the end when Gavin scored, I felt like jumping into the crowd. I ended up running halfway down one side of the pitch and the gaffer went the other.

But even then we were a little concerned it could go to 5-5!

That mix of emotions reminded me a bit of the Wembley final against Wigan in 2000 when we were ahead and then behind, and then in extra-time Andy Thomson scored a late winner.

At the end of Tuesday’s game, a lot of the lads looked tired and that’s not surprising. In our changing room at half-time we had Curtis Weston with ice on his knee, Danny Jackman had it on his calf and Jack Payne was also sitting there with an ice pack on. Not to mention Connor Essam, who was only about 75% before the match, as he picked up the bug that kept both Joe Martin and Garry Richards out of the squad.

We were lucky to be able to bring Charlie Lee on at the break and he showed just why we brought him to the club from Peterborough. He put in a fantastic performance.

Things are looking good for us going forward at the moment and Danny Kedwell is living a boyhood dream by captaining the side and leading by example. Gavin is on top form and we just need Jo Kuffour to start scoring goals now.

He knows he hasn’t scored in a while but he’s working hard and when he starts hitting the net, we will be a force.