First-half efforts from Kris Boyd and Scott McDonald gave Boro their first victory on the road this campaign and doubled the number of goals their have scored on their travels.

The victory saw Boro build on Saturday's win over Crystal Palace and move clear of the relegation zone, but Mowbray is not looking too far up the table.

"I have been in the Championship before and you can see how difficult it is in every game," the former Celtic boss said.

"We will go to Swansea on Sunday and see how good we are. Nobody is getting carried away outside of our dressing room.

"We're still looking over our shoulder and below us.

"First we need to get into the pack and once we do that we can have a look at how consistent we need to be to get in the play-offs."

Boro made a flying start to the game, taking the lead in the sixth minute through Boyd, who grabbed his fifth of the season.

And Mowbray was full of praise for the former Rangers striker.

"There has been some negatives about him. He is the type of player that if he is not scoring people can focus on the negatives," he added.

"You're never going to take away his ability to get in those positions to score but every player needs a player who is going to put the ball in the back of the net.

"He can be largely anonymous but then you look against his name and he has a goal against his name and I'm delighted he did so again."

Scunthorpe manager Ian Baraclough tried to bring some perspective to his side's result.

It was their third successive defeat at Glanford Park but Baraclough knew they were up against a team full of quality players.

"It's a defeat and we'll try and put it right on Saturday," he said.

"But I'm not going to get too down about losing to a team that has played in the Premier League and probably cost £20million to assemble.

"I'm not going to have a go at my players for what they have done after the first 20 minutes.

"But you cannot afford to start a game like that and expect to come away with anything.

"We were playing against quality players. None of my lads have played in the Premier League, just over half of their players have."

It could have been a different story had Scunthorpe not wasted several chances to get back into the game in the latter stages of the first half, with Chris Dagnall and Michael Raynes spurning good opportunities, while Kevin McDonald hit the post deep into the second period.

Baraclough added: "The home results aren't good. The more you get beat at home the more people will look at it.

"But you can't tell me the players have played badly from start to finish. I don't think they have done.

"We just missed chances, we had double the chances they did."