Happy Hatters boss Mick Harford hailed his side's rare away victory at Gillingam and admitted he hopes they will scrap to many more.

The delighted Luton manager said the victory was the first building block on Town's road to survival and said 70 more should see them safe.

He said: "I think it's a massive win for us because it's an away victory. It's a long time since Luton Town won an away game. That's two clean sheets in the last two games which is very important to us.

"It proved to me, the supporters and the players that we can come away and scrap it out and they scrapped it out well today and that augers well for the future.

"I think Gillingham after watching them play today will be one of the teams near the top of the division.

"The work rate, effort and commitment the lads showed today and the desire and passion to do well for the football club was there for everybody to see. The defending was fantastic. I think we deserved to win just for the way we defended."

On Sam Parkin's fine header that earned the Hatters victory, he said: "Chris Martin crossed a great ball in for Sam and he has done that during his career – scoring at the far post."

Harford said he hadn't had any real problems attracting new players to the club and revealed he hopes to bring in up to three more before the transfer window closes.

He added: "We tell them our plan and how we want to approach things from the board down, about how we want to get ourselves out of trouble and what the plan is for the future. It was mirrored out there today with the passion and commitment that they believe they can get themselves out of trouble.

"The window closes at the end of August, but we will have to try to use the loan market to bring players in and move players out. We need to bring in two or three more players to bulk the squad out.

"If we can stay up these players could be heroes for Luton Town Football Club."