Gillingham returned to winning ways on Saturday with an excellent 2-0 win over promotion chasing Huddersfield and Manager Mark Stimson felt it was just reward for his team's efforts, "Some people may not have expected it but we knew we were going to have a right go at them and I think the win was thoroughly deserved against a very strong Huddersfield team.
"We set our stall out today, from the first whistle, to put them under pressure and try and maintain that for as long as possible. We did that and got two great finishes from Jacko, and with some better finishing we could have scored some more goals.
"We've been in the position before where we've got the early goal and not kicked on from there. It's something we've spoken about and full credit to the players, they've worked really hard in training this week, and got their rewards today."
With Chris Dickson nursing a minor calf injury, Stimson reverted to a 4-4-2 formation with Howe and Jackson leading the line. The switch paid dividends with Simeon Jackson scoring two fine goals and Stimson was quick to praise his in form forwards.
"It was a fantastic strike and the way it came about was from some great pressing by Adam Miller, he closed the full-back down and got a block then played a great little ball around the corner. Jacko took a good first touch and his second was even better, left foot into the bottom corner.
"If you watch the second goal I think that's an even better finish. He's actually run with the ball for 10-15 yards, at pace, got his head up and put it around the keeper with his right foot. Two very good finishes from him today, long may that continue and hopefully he'll soon be moving back up those goal-scoring charts.
"Rene will be frustrated because he hasn't scored and he had two good chances today but there are other parts to the game. He works hard, he's a target man, he takes some of the heat off Jacko and I thought the two worked well today."
Stuart Lewis made a return to the starting line-up, replacing Chris Palmer at right-back and Stimson was impressed with the way that the hard working midfielder adapted to the challenge. "I had a good chat with him after last week's game and said that we would work on a few things with him in training.
I said for him to knuckle down on his defending and if you can show me that you're as good as last year I'll give you the jersey. Today he went out there, had a horrible tackle against him early on, but got over that and did well for his first game for a few weeks. I haven't seen the tackle since but at the time it looked like a straight red.
The Gills Boss also paid tribute to his defence who claimed yet another home clean sheet adding, "They've done well. Darren has been away all week and had a tough game on Wednesday; he came back yesterday and said his legs felt a bit tired.
In the first half he felt his hamstring and had a bit of treatment at half time. Also Garry is playing the way we know he can play; he just needs to maintain that. The two full-backs have also done their job today as well. To keep a clean sheet and win, you can't ask for much more.
