TOWN boss Danny Wilson believes he could not have asked for any more from his squad, even though they missed out on automatic promotion with a 3-2 defeat at Millwall yesterday.

If they want to compete in the Championship next season, Swindon will have to achieve that through the play-offs - where they will face Charlton in the semi-finals.

And Wilson was happy with the efforts of his troops following a frantic game at the New Den.

“You can't fail to know the scores from all the games when you've got a full house and everyone is bellowing down your earhole," he explained.

“But it was fantastic. The atmosphere was great, everybody behaved themselves, and they saw a very good game of football.

“We got it down and played some great stuff at times. We can't be happy with the goals we conceded, but overall we can't ask for any more from the group of players.

“You've seen at the end that they had worked themselves to an absolute standstill, and they were fantastic at times.

“We had nothing at all to lose so that's why we gave quite a calm performance. We passed the ball well under the pressure and atmosphere and did quite well at times."

Town took an early lead through Danny Ward before Steve Morison's penalty drew the Lions level.

A Gordon Greer own goal edged Millwall ahead after half-time and Morison put them further in front.

Billy Paynter headed in his 29th of the season to give Swindon hope late on, but Wilson was left to rue his side's defensive lapses.

“It was a great goal from Danny Ward to give us the lead," he said.

"There was a little bit of disguise on the ball from Jonny Douglas with the free-kick – he put it in an area the defenders didn't expect it to go, and caused them problems.

“We've given silly goals away and there was no doubt at all about the penalty.

“For the second, Gordon shouldn't have been put in that position and it was the build up to it and bad positional play which put us in trouble. It left him isolated and when the ball was zipped in he couldn't recover from it.

“Millwall pressed us very hard, very quickly and very high, but they played a entirely different type of game to what we played. It was a good game of two different styles of play.”