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| Gillingham boss Justin Edinburgh insists he is not getting carried away as his side went top |
GILLINGHAM moved to the top of the table with a 3-1 victory over Bury but manager Justin Edinburgh is not about to get carried away.
Leon Clarke put Bury ahead after four minutes but Dominic Samuel levelled almost immediately.
John Egan put Gillingham back in front after 10 minutes before Emmanuel Osadebe settled matters with a late third.
"My first target was to secure a status in League One," said Edinburgh. "The second was, can we make the play-offs? The final one was could we gain automatic promotion? Well, we're top of the league, but we won't get carried away."
With Walsall and Burton, the top two at the start of the day, not in action, Edinburgh's men moved to the summit on goal difference and Coventry also joined them on 34 points with a 3-1 win at Colchester.
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| Dominic Samuel scoring Gillingham's first goal in the 3-1 win over Bury |
Colchester took a 17th-minute lead through Macauley Bonne but the visitors equalised through Jacob Murphy, before the striker pounced for a second and Marc-Antoine Fortune completed the scoring in the 49th minute.
"It was a decent team performance," said Coventry boss Tony Mowbray. "The teams at the top keep winning but we keep trying to accumulate points.
"We dominated it for long spells and we made a good recovery from going behind."
At the bottom of the table, Barnsley head coach Lee Johnson was left scratching his head after his side slipped to an eighth straight league defeat at the hands of Port Vale.
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| Michael Jacobs celebrates scoring Wigan's second goal in the 2-0 win over Rochdale |
Barnsley had the better of the early chances but Vale stormed in front thanks to goals from Jay Leitch-Smith and Sam Foley.
Substitute Sam Winnall grabbed a consolation but Johnson felt the Tykes deserved more than a 2-1 defeat.
He said: "The players and myself feel a little bit hard done to because they've given everything. We've won every stat apart from the most important one."
Wigan's unbeaten run stretched to 10 games as they defeated Rochdale 2-0 in the early kick-off at Spotland, with Jason Pearce and Michael Jacobs were the scorers.
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| Raphael Rossi-Branco celebrates scoring Swindon's opening goal in the 2-1 win over Scunthorpe |
Swindon claimed the first win of Martin Ling's reign by beating Scunthorpe 2-1 to move out of the bottom four, ending their barren run through goals from Raphael Rossi Branco and Nicky Ajose, although Jordan Clarke pulled one back.
Doncaster made it three 2-0 wins on the spin as Blackpool slipped into the relegation zone following first-half goals from Andy Williams and Aaron Taylor-Sinclair, while Bradford inflicted further misery on Crewe with a 2-0 win thanks to goals from Gary Liddle and Billy Clarke.
Sheffield United claimed a 2-2 draw with Southend despite going 2-0 down in South Yorkshire.
Ryan Leonard and Jack Payne put the Shrimpers in front yet Jose Baxter and Neill Collins had restored parity before the interval.
Souleymane Coulibaly and Jermaine Anderson were on target for Peterborough as they beat Fleetwood 2-1, with David Ball scoring for the visitors, while Danny Philliskirk and Dominic Poleon struck late to give Oldham a 2-1 win over Chesterfield, for whom Sylvan Ebanks-Blake had opened the scoring.
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