| Luton 21:27 - Feb 12 with 4573 views | ringwoodblue |
Bottom of the Championship now. How has it gone so wrong for them? |  |
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| Luton on 10:55 - Feb 13 with 528 views | backwaywhen |
They got lucky getting promotion ….too much too soon . |  | | |
| Luton on 11:00 - Feb 13 with 509 views | Steve_M |
| Luton on 10:53 - Feb 13 by JakeITFC |
I do think that had we have gone up with our back-to-back promotion squad and left it as is then we would have found the next season in the Championship much harder. Regardless of what happens this year I think we've moved the whole club forward massively via this promotion. |
Yes, quite. It was telling last season that the teams with former Premier League players, not just the other three at the top but WBA and Luton as well, were those we found most difficult to play against.
To add to which taking a snapshot of Luton's points tally at this exact point is not necessarily that informative. It's still little more than one game going the other way and we would be at parity. There's definitely a wider point about how much we've got right this season but our benchmark is now Wolves and Leicester not Luton. |  |
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| Luton on 11:03 - Feb 13 with 487 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Luton on 10:55 - Feb 13 by backwaywhen |
They got lucky getting promotion ….too much too soon . |
Not too sure about that. They finished 3rd that year and 6th the year before that. They were working towards that point and had a few factors that were working for them. Given the outside world perception of us last year, I don't think 'lucky' is a term we can throw around. You don't finish 3rd and go up over the course of a 46 game season with just luck.
If anything, our momentum was maybe too much too soon. The difference being we have recruited with one eye on the future. They possibly didn't.
Getting Clarke, Philogene, Greaves and the like in was a smart move if the contingency was trying to get back at the first attempt. It hasn't maybe paid off in the short term (i.e. this season in the Prem) but we would have had a much harder job recruiting them in the summer ahead should we go down and if some of them move on, which I suspect several won't, it'll cost clubs to sign them and we go again. |  |
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| Luton on 11:47 - Feb 13 with 408 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Luton on 10:39 - Feb 13 by SaffronWaldenBlues |
I don't think Ashton would have recruited for relegation this season, despite us being ahead of the plan. I also don't think Ashton or the investors would drop £100mil if they didn't think it would give us a good shot of finishing 17th. I think we didn't appreciate that the players we did recruit from Hull, Blackburn, Burnley, and Sunderland would not be able to step up, or be coached into being better players. We obviously paid way over the odds for most of them, to get them here too. We got it wrong, no shame in that aspect, it is everyone's first time doing this, however, we cannot make that mistake if we ever get this opportunity again.
People forget that our "League One" squad was already a level below what they were capable of when we were in that league. Players like Walton, Davis, Clarke, Morsy, Mass, Hirst, Broadhead and Chaplin were already good enough for that level in the Championship and did not need much coaching or as much supplementing last season, to make that grade.
The players we have recruited have not done badly, but they have not done on average much better than the players we already had. Muric, O'Shea, Greaves, Johnson, Jack Clarke, Ogbene, Hutchinson, Philogene, and Szmodics are Championship level players. Liam Delap has stepped up and thrived, but the others have not managed that much of a jump.
Let's learn and move on, but accept we have made mistakes. |
Personally, I don't feel the £100 mill spend needs to be seen as a spend for this season, it was spent with a view of bridging the gap to other clubs, which basically was in the region of what we spent imo. This £100 mill spend has basically brought us forward as a club to be capable of matching the sides at the top top end of the champ and prem thereafter.
You think, ignore this season and look at the squad we may go into 25/26 with compared to the one we finished 2023 with... Not only does it contain many of the same, but we've replaced a large number of 'Squad fillers and occasionals like Jackson, Harness, Edmundson, Sarmiento, with the likes of Clarke, Philogene, Oshea, Greaves.
The side we will have available for 25/26 is a massive massive upgrade on the side we actually got promoted with. It may not be enough for this season, but champ v champ it is |  |
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| Luton on 11:54 - Feb 13 with 384 views | textbackup |
| Luton on 09:55 - Feb 13 by Kieran_Knows |
Why does everyone to seem to think we're already down for? There's 14 games left ffs. |
For me - it’s because of how weak we look, add to that how crap the game vs Soton was, it’s not helping anyone build any confidence.
I think we are down, of course, be great if I’m massively incorrect |  |
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| Luton on 12:31 - Feb 13 with 328 views | peterleeblue |
They simply were not a good football team.
Sunderland would have beaten them in the play offs had they had any fit centre halves.
The three goals over the 2 matches were all identical. |  | | |
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