Gillingham Manager Ronnie Jepson is delighted with the fantastic 3-1 victory over Swansea City at Priestfield.

On the overall outcome of the match, which saw club captain Ian Cox score two goals to take the Gills into the top-half of the League One table, Jepson said: "It was a good performance against a good side.  We are a million miles away from Swansea in terms of budget but the lads out there today, which we they have done all season, they have a wonderful work-ethic and they believe in one and other and I thought we deserved the three points. 

"They had a 15-20 minute spell, which I thought they would with the quality they have got.  Overall, I was disappointed that we didn't get one or two more goals but a three-one win over Swansea at home, you would take that all day long.  All credit to the lads.

"We just put our head and foot on the ball, like we have done all season, we work on the opposition.  We had a little game plan and I played Matty Jarvis down the middle as I thought we could hurt them with a bit of pace and we got in there on numerous occasions.  We work on one or two things down the training ground and today it come off and we got our rewards.  I think we set up well against them.  They are good side but the way we set up and did one or two things to exploit them, it come off today.

"The boys stuck at it and it was nice for Ian Cox to score two goals, it is about time!  That will be Coxy's two for the season, but hopefully he can add to that.  I keep asking the lads to score goals from different areas of the team and they are coming up with them at this moment in time.  If I wanted to be over-critical, like I said, we could have maybe had one or two more.

"They have got good quality in there with Adebayo Akinfenwa and Leon Knight.  Knight is a tricky player and I thought we coped with him well.  To be fair, I thought it was a good finish.  I would have liked us to have cleared the first ball that went into the box.  We didn't and the lad has finished it well.

"Everyone saw the league last year and Southend weren't very fancied but they done well and won the title.  I think Swansea will be up there.  They have a good side and a big squad."

Matty Jarvis started against the Swans up front after playing on the wing against Millwall and Jepson was full of praise for the versatile attacker: "At Doncaster, I played him on the left and it worked well.  I can play him out wide when I feel fit.  We look at how other teams are setting-up and maybe Swansea might have though he would've been on the left today after the Millwall game.

"I decided to go with Matty and Gary Mulligan up-front as they have both got good pace, they never give in and they will chase everything.  When they get in there, they cause problems, which they did again today.  It was a great finish from Matty."

Gary Mulligan had an appeal for a penalty turned down by the referee and Jepson was delighted with the work-rate of his centre-forward: "Mulligan has got his body in there but I suppose if you look at it from Swansea's point of view, it is good defending.  The boys had their arms up in the air as they thought it was a penalty.

"He has got six stud marks across his chest that he got in the first half. He was struggling with his breathing. I asked him to go back on for the start of the first-half. He is that type of lad and he will give you everything. In the end, he couldn't do any more and I had to make a change."