Fuller took over the captaincy from Andrew Crofts this season

Gillingham captain Barry Fuller hopes to recreate the club's previous play-off glory in Saturday's League Two play-off final.

He was one of 40,000 fans at Wembley for the 2000 Second Division play-off final when the Gills beat Wigan 3-2.

Fuller told BBC Radio Kent: "My dad asked if I wanted to go, I was a follower, and I remember jumping up and down with the rest of them.

"It was a great day out then and I hope to re-enact it at Wembley this year."

Fuller is delighted to be back to full fitness and featuring in the showpiece event after he contracted a bout of pneumonia earlier in the year.

"The end of the season has been a surprise. I didn't expect to play after being ill but the season's been better and better for me," he said.

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"The boss has given me the opportunity to lead the team out at Wembley. I am honoured and privileged and I hope to repay that faith by lifting the trophy."

And Fuller is banishing any memory of Gillingham's humiliating 7-0 defeat to Saturday's opponents Shrewsbury just eight months ago.

"You could say it will be payback but we are not going to concentrate on that because that was a freak day," he added.

"That's behind us and who knows, if we perform it could be them on the back end of a result like that."

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