I've been supporting Luton for 45 years, but I'm new to watching your podcasts! I enjoy them as you both seem quite knowledgeable about the club and your match analysis! 🙂 I like the dry humour guys and use of amusing analogies! 😂 . I liked Kev's thoughts on seeing younger supporters at cup match days, it certainly is good to bear in mind the continued future of the club, while we enjoy the present! 😊 Keep up the good work! 👍
I remember taking a friends young son to his first ever football game at KR around 1998 and he loved it. And those around us provided the usual banter since he supported Spurs! It's a shame I can't get tickets now as I have moved away and it's been difficult. It was ok when it was non-league but I guess I have to wait until the new stadium but have my fingers crossed I can have one last game at the old girl. So although some people may be seen as 'new', the likes of me find it hard to get tickets today and grab the chance when we can.
I think the Bolton game sums up our season really. We huff and puff but we don't seem to make those killer passes, more move the ball quickly. Not sure if this is Robs tactics at play, or we aren't that kind of team. Playing Chelsea, and the balls Chong crossed into the box were just perfect for someone to get a head or toe to it and our strikers aren't even in the box! For the replay he should put out a slightly weaker side and focus on grabbing a point or better, beating Burnley. We have a chance of staying up, so does the club go all in without spending and see if we can perform a miracle? IF and it's a big one, Forest are docked points, there's all to play for as the season ticks down but we need to start winning our home games without question, as February will be a very baron month away to most of the top 6. And don't get me started on VAR. It needs to go.
If one thinks about it, we wernt that prolific in the Championship last season! We won many matches by one goal, 1-0 quite alot! So this season it's even harder! Here's hoping Ross and Andros can provide the inspiration needed the next 3 months!
@@RobertSmythson-k3g yes, There were a lot of 1-0s and felt like Arsenal of the 90s! LOL. I would say that we have more creativity in the middle of the park and down the wings but in the PL, it will of course be more of a challenge. Either way, it has been a fantastic season for the club up, or down.
I don't see any disrespect. This is a Luton Town vlog that is looking at the game from a Luton Town Football Club perspective. Can you honestly say that any of your own clubs vlogs give deserved credit to any of the opposition teams that they play??? I will remind you that our manager and your manager are good friends and once played together. Our manager has expressed his admiration for Bolton Wanderers, although personally I don't think they improved on Nat Lofthouse. Further: At the time that Bolton were going through financial hardships and dropping down the leagues, many Luton Town supporters offered words of encouragement as we had been down that road ourselves. At that time that Bolton and Bury looked like they might fold, I personally sent an email of support to Miss Stunt Peg (I think her name is) offering her words of encouragement and reminding her that we had suffered a similar fate and that was at the time when we sat top of League One. What goes around come around.
I would like to see us have a bit of a cup run but don't want to see our Premier League position compromised by too many games between now and May. It's interesting to see that a Fourth Round tie would take us to either Everton or Crystal Palace if we win the replay. Of course we have a great squad but we want to preserve our best players for those games that are going to count towards our possible Premier League survival. After next Tuesday's replay, we do have a two week break before the Brighton game, so maybe we can have a bit of fun in the cup. *Supporters:* Much as I understand the argument against 'plastic' supporters, it is the only way for clubs who have ambition to progress. Luton have a much wider fan base than the Kenny can ever accommodate. Wembley proved that in May 2023 and April 1988. There are also supporters who have reached a certain age who may not have been able to attend games as regularly as they once did. There are suppporters who work/live in other parts of the country who try to get to a game whenever the club are in their neck-of-the-woods or whenever they have the time free to travel back to that town from where we first drew breath. The fact is that they have remained loyal to the badge. But we cannot have or continue to maintain this 'small town closed shop' attitude going forward. We should encourage new supporters who want to come and spend their money in our club shop (wherever they may live). We have players from all over the world playing in our colours so it is only natural that those players will become role-models for the children within their land of origin. Luton already have a well-established Scandanavian supporters club (the scarf of which is right behind James). Come one come all, is what I say. In no way does that diminish the local or long time supporters who call themselves a hatter. Personally, I have been following the white and black... the orange and blue... the orange and white... the orange and very dark blue since I were but a wee lad all them years ago. I've now got the grey hairs to prove it.
Bolton have already played 33 games this season. Luton have played 22 with a more expensive & bugger squad. Bolton also played 4 games in 8 days with a a 4 day gap before playing Luton. That'd go some way to explain Boltons unusually lacklustre attacking performance, but whats Lutons excuse?
Not when you consider our possession based attacking play is to keep possession & move the opposition around to tire them out. We had to play a different game with us being dead on our feet & expecting you boys to be a lot more aggressive on the press than what we've been used to. We sacrificed our possession game & went more direct. I'd expect us to play like our usual selves tonight.
You talk about Baxter time wasting some of your corners took just as long as his goal kicks… good podcast though lads 👍 not to enticing for us to have an extra game to play may possibly be 15k on. How many do you think you will bring up?
Given the title of the vlog and after watching the preview vlog to this game it comes across to me the snobbery of being a Premier League club which given the vulnerable position Luton are in may not last much longer after this season. Playing in a stadium watched by fans with strained necks due to pylons and roof structures is going back to the Stone Age. So come next Tuesday I do hope as many Luton fans can come to a proper stadium with some respect of a club making its way back to the Premier League where it belongs.
Yeah, but lickle owd Notlob have a similar problem. Do they risk injury to key players just so they can have a few cup games or do they remember that they have a chance of automatic promotion if you can keep your best team together. You still have 22 games to go and it doesn't look like Peterborough or Derby have thrown the towel in yet. Come cup final day it is most likely that the teams with more money than sense will be parading their swanky club colours.
typical prem league club waffling on about to many games.bolton are 2 games behind most in league one and are still in the efl trophy.we have a far bigger backlog in games than your big and mighty luton town.stop moaning you southern softies
Have a word with yourselves? You sounded disrespectful in the preview suggesting a weakened team, this vid is taking the notch further, Bolton are a lot better team than you realise, there's a good chance we'll be above you in the league this time next year. Just because our darkest days coincide with your best, does not mean Luton are a bigger & better club. They're not. We played to win & have no interest in a replay. Luton at home isn't lucrative by any stretch. Attacking wise, we didn't play to our usual standards, mainly down to the gruelling run of Christmas fixtures, where we've had to grind out points. Defensively we were very good, but we weren't really tested by Luton. Apart from Luton being better physically , which is to be expected from a team currently 2 divisions above us, there's not much between the teams. Luton were only interested in playing for set pieces & that 20 min period of Luton dominance was Bolton managing the game out of possession. If you thought there were time wasting in this game, then you need to see what happens at L1 level. There was hardly any time wasting. The VAR decision was obviously correct, they've got more angles to prove there wasn't a foul. Doughty dived & should have been booked. Stop your bleating & hopefully you'll be humbled next week, when we get the chance to refresh & play our usual attacking game.
@KebabMusicLtd Looking at the current probabilities, it'll be highly likely that both Bolton & Luton will be in the Championship next season. There's a lot of football to play & things can change, so it's not a statement that will happen. Otherwise football would become too predicatble & boring. Looking at the performance of possession based teams, compared to direct teams that have gone up to the Championship the last few years, they tend to perform well & are at the top end of the table. No reason why Bolton can't, if they fit promoted. No one has said anything about Bolton winning the FA cup. You've made that delusional thing up. That's a bonkers thing to think.
I think you’re being a little precious, to be honest. They seemed fairly even handed to me. They even said they expected more of Bolton on the day, so I’m not sure where you got the idea that they didn’t think Bolton are a good team. And suggesting resting a few players for a cup tie in a competition we are highly unlikely to win anyway when Luton are fighting to stay in the PL and a serious injury to one of our key players could literally get us relegated, is a sensible suggestion - it’s certainly not showing any disrespect to Bolton at all. It was something that would have been considered against literally any opposition at this stage of the competition. Ask any Luton supporter and they will tell you that an extended cup run is a distant second in priorities compared with staying up this season. Playing Bolton on their home turf is not going to be easy and I don’t think any Luton supporter would really be that surprised if you beat us - and if you do, I hope you go on to win the thing - that would be fantastic for football. As would a team like Luton defying everyone’s expectations and staying up.
That could be the Premier League lulls. We've experienced it at many of the grounds we have been to in the Premier League where the home club support are so sure that they will get the three points that they remain muted for much of the game. The longer the game goes on like that without the expected goal rush, that's when the crowd get restless. Angry words may be exchanged, fists may be waved in the general direction of the home dug-out whilst red flags and banners droop in the sallow winter sunshine.
So why didn't they stand aside and let us score. Looked like they wanted a replay to me. You lost to Bristol Rovers a few weeks ago so try not to peak to soon.
kev or james as you brought up the Arndale centre do either remember the flamingo water fountain ⛲🦩? Great podcast but whats your honest thoughts on ogbene ??
We remember it fondly. The flamingoes have been repurposed in the new Hat Gardens area outside the Arndale now. I think Ogbene's not fully recovered from the injury he went into the international break with.
@@lutontownsupporterstrust and I remember my mum taking me for lunch on my birthday in wimpy that was in the arndale centre 87 lol 🤣 how old is that lol 🤣
@@Lutonian79992- I too remember the Wimpy fondly - back in the 70’s the Wimpy was almost the only place you could get a burger in Luton - probably in the UK - we used to go there all the time. My mum took us all to McDonalds right after it opened in the brand spanking new Central Milton Keynes, probably around 1979 - we stood at the counter and she asked for “a Wimpy and chips”, lol. I nearly died on the spot - we then spent over an hour trying to find our car in the car park. I remember it like it was yesterday.
I've been supporting Luton for 45 years, but I'm new to watching your podcasts! I enjoy them as you both seem quite knowledgeable about the club and your match analysis! 🙂 I like the dry humour guys and use of amusing analogies! 😂 . I liked Kev's thoughts on seeing younger supporters at cup match days, it certainly is good to bear in mind the continued future of the club, while we enjoy the present! 😊 Keep up the good work! 👍
I remember taking a friends young son to his first ever football game at KR around 1998 and he loved it. And those around us provided the usual banter since he supported Spurs! It's a shame I can't get tickets now as I have moved away and it's been difficult. It was ok when it was non-league but I guess I have to wait until the new stadium but have my fingers crossed I can have one last game at the old girl. So although some people may be seen as 'new', the likes of me find it hard to get tickets today and grab the chance when we can.
Mini celebrity is pushing it (although, these days...) 😂 BUT you 2 (mainly you 2) present a great podcast. Well done guys! 🥃⚽🥃
I think the Bolton game sums up our season really. We huff and puff but we don't seem to make those killer passes, more move the ball quickly. Not sure if this is Robs tactics at play, or we aren't that kind of team. Playing Chelsea, and the balls Chong crossed into the box were just perfect for someone to get a head or toe to it and our strikers aren't even in the box! For the replay he should put out a slightly weaker side and focus on grabbing a point or better, beating Burnley. We have a chance of staying up, so does the club go all in without spending and see if we can perform a miracle?
IF and it's a big one, Forest are docked points, there's all to play for as the season ticks down but we need to start winning our home games without question, as February will be a very baron month away to most of the top 6. And don't get me started on VAR. It needs to go.
If one thinks about it, we wernt that prolific in the Championship last season! We won many matches by one goal, 1-0 quite alot! So this season it's even harder! Here's hoping Ross and Andros can provide the inspiration needed the next 3 months!
@@RobertSmythson-k3g yes, There were a lot of 1-0s and felt like Arsenal of the 90s! LOL. I would say that we have more creativity in the middle of the park and down the wings but in the PL, it will of course be more of a challenge. Either way, it has been a fantastic season for the club up, or down.
Give credit to Bolton! There game plan worked absolutely perfect
I don't see any disrespect. This is a Luton Town vlog that is looking at the game from a Luton Town Football Club perspective. Can you honestly say that any of your own clubs vlogs give deserved credit to any of the opposition teams that they play???
I will remind you that our manager and your manager are good friends and once played together. Our manager has expressed his admiration for Bolton Wanderers, although personally I don't think they improved on Nat Lofthouse.
Further: At the time that Bolton were going through financial hardships and dropping down the leagues, many Luton Town supporters offered words of encouragement as we had been down that road ourselves. At that time that Bolton and Bury looked like they might fold, I personally sent an email of support to Miss Stunt Peg (I think her name is) offering her words of encouragement and reminding her that we had suffered a similar fate and that was at the time when we sat top of League One. What goes around come around.
@@KebabMusicLtdthanks for the history lesson
No matter how you dress it a good result for Bolton, job done for them.
Apologies if I missed it, but I don't think you mentioned Woodrow coming on for Morris in the 76th minute.
I would like to see us have a bit of a cup run but don't want to see our Premier League position compromised by too many games between now and May. It's interesting to see that a Fourth Round tie would take us to either Everton or Crystal Palace if we win the replay. Of course we have a great squad but we want to preserve our best players for those games that are going to count towards our possible Premier League survival. After next Tuesday's replay, we do have a two week break before the Brighton game, so maybe we can have a bit of fun in the cup.
*Supporters:* Much as I understand the argument against 'plastic' supporters, it is the only way for clubs who have ambition to progress. Luton have a much wider fan base than the Kenny can ever accommodate. Wembley proved that in May 2023 and April 1988. There are also supporters who have reached a certain age who may not have been able to attend games as regularly as they once did. There are suppporters who work/live in other parts of the country who try to get to a game whenever the club are in their neck-of-the-woods or whenever they have the time free to travel back to that town from where we first drew breath. The fact is that they have remained loyal to the badge.
But we cannot have or continue to maintain this 'small town closed shop' attitude going forward. We should encourage new supporters who want to come and spend their money in our club shop (wherever they may live). We have players from all over the world playing in our colours so it is only natural that those players will become role-models for the children within their land of origin. Luton already have a well-established Scandanavian supporters club (the scarf of which is right behind James). Come one come all, is what I say. In no way does that diminish the local or long time supporters who call themselves a hatter. Personally, I have been following the white and black... the orange and blue... the orange and white... the orange and very dark blue since I were but a wee lad all them years ago. I've now got the grey hairs to prove it.
Bolton have already played 33 games this season. Luton have played 22 with a more expensive & bugger squad.
Bolton also played 4 games in 8 days with a a 4 day gap before playing Luton.
That'd go some way to explain Boltons unusually lacklustre attacking performance, but whats Lutons excuse?
This reasoning falls down when you consider your defensive display, which wasn't lacklustre. Can't have it both ways.
Not when you consider our possession based attacking play is to keep possession & move the opposition around to tire them out.
We had to play a different game with us being dead on our feet & expecting you boys to be a lot more aggressive on the press than what we've been used to.
We sacrificed our possession game & went more direct. I'd expect us to play like our usual selves tonight.
@@DamonJordan1984 There's that copium again.
You talk about Baxter time wasting some of your corners took just as long as his goal kicks… good podcast though lads 👍 not to enticing for us to have an extra game to play may possibly be 15k on. How many do you think you will bring up?
Given the title of the vlog and after watching the preview vlog to this game it comes across to me the snobbery of being a Premier League club which given the vulnerable position Luton are in may not last much longer after this season. Playing in a stadium watched by fans with strained necks due to pylons and roof structures is going back to the Stone Age. So come next Tuesday I do hope as many Luton fans can come to a proper stadium with some respect of a club making its way back to the Premier League where it belongs.
hahaha, little old bolton upsetting you? I'm sure we will do you at our place so you can concentrate on staying in the premier league👍
Yeah, but lickle owd Notlob have a similar problem. Do they risk injury to key players just so they can have a few cup games or do they remember that they have a chance of automatic promotion if you can keep your best team together. You still have 22 games to go and it doesn't look like Peterborough or Derby have thrown the towel in yet.
Come cup final day it is most likely that the teams with more money than sense will be parading their swanky club colours.
You can’t call anyone’s ground when you have the worst ground in all 4 decisions haha you both sound bitter
If you don't like it son, I can only suggest that you make your own podcast. You can call it 'Foot and Mouth.'
typical prem league club waffling on about to many games.bolton are 2 games behind most in league one and are still in the efl trophy.we have a far bigger backlog in games than your big and mighty luton town.stop moaning you southern softies
Don't recall moaning about too many games. From memory we mentioned there were a lot in December and not many in January, which isn't the same thing.
Have a word with yourselves?
You sounded disrespectful in the preview suggesting a weakened team, this vid is taking the notch further,
Bolton are a lot better team than you realise, there's a good chance we'll be above you in the league this time next year.
Just because our darkest days coincide with your best, does not mean Luton are a bigger & better club. They're not.
We played to win & have no interest in a replay. Luton at home isn't lucrative by any stretch.
Attacking wise, we didn't play to our usual standards, mainly down to the gruelling run of Christmas fixtures, where we've had to grind out points.
Defensively we were very good, but we weren't really tested by Luton. Apart from Luton being better physically , which is to be expected from a team currently 2 divisions above us, there's not much between the teams. Luton were only interested in playing for set pieces & that 20 min period of Luton dominance was Bolton managing the game out of possession.
If you thought there were time wasting in this game, then you need to see what happens at L1 level. There was hardly any time wasting.
The VAR decision was obviously correct, they've got more angles to prove there wasn't a foul. Doughty dived & should have been booked.
Stop your bleating & hopefully you'll be humbled next week, when we get the chance to refresh & play our usual attacking game.
I’d rather teams underestimate us, makes the end goal feel more better
So, you are stating here and now that you will get promoted and that you will win the cup. We will come back to this comment in May.
@KebabMusicLtd
Looking at the current probabilities, it'll be highly likely that both Bolton & Luton will be in the Championship next season. There's a lot of football to play & things can change, so it's not a statement that will happen. Otherwise football would become too predicatble & boring.
Looking at the performance of possession based teams, compared to direct teams that have gone up to the Championship the last few years, they tend to perform well & are at the top end of the table.
No reason why Bolton can't, if they fit promoted.
No one has said anything about Bolton winning the FA cup. You've made that delusional thing up. That's a bonkers thing to think.
I think you’re being a little precious, to be honest. They seemed fairly even handed to me. They even said they expected more of Bolton on the day, so I’m not sure where you got the idea that they didn’t think Bolton are a good team.
And suggesting resting a few players for a cup tie in a competition we are highly unlikely to win anyway when Luton are fighting to stay in the PL and a serious injury to one of our key players could literally get us relegated, is a sensible suggestion - it’s certainly not showing any disrespect to Bolton at all. It was something that would have been considered against literally any opposition at this stage of the competition. Ask any Luton supporter and they will tell you that an extended cup run is a distant second in priorities compared with staying up this season.
Playing Bolton on their home turf is not going to be easy and I don’t think any Luton supporter would really be that surprised if you beat us - and if you do, I hope you go on to win the thing - that would be fantastic for football. As would a team like Luton defying everyone’s expectations and staying up.
Looks like your ‘usual attacking game’ wasn’t good enough after all, eh.
Maybe if your fans got behind your team they may have gone on to win. Quitest ground ive ever been too. Not what i expected at all.
That could be the Premier League lulls. We've experienced it at many of the grounds we have been to in the Premier League where the home club support are so sure that they will get the three points that they remain muted for much of the game. The longer the game goes on like that without the expected goal rush, that's when the crowd get restless. Angry words may be exchanged, fists may be waved in the general direction of the home dug-out whilst red flags and banners droop in the sallow winter sunshine.
Normally it’s absolutely incredible, it just happens that Bolton in the 3rd round of the cup isn’t the most exciting thing in the world lol
We didn't want a reply playing a second rate prem team brings no financial reward
So why didn't they stand aside and let us score. Looked like they wanted a replay to me. You lost to Bristol Rovers a few weeks ago so try not to peak to soon.
@KebabMusicLtd we got beat by Wigan to so ya point is ?? You will bring what a 100 or 200 fans with ya so where is the reward for us
@@andrewvickers4941100 or 200 😂😂
kev or james as you brought up the Arndale centre do either remember the flamingo water fountain ⛲🦩? Great podcast but whats your honest thoughts on ogbene ??
We remember it fondly. The flamingoes have been repurposed in the new Hat Gardens area outside the Arndale now. I think Ogbene's not fully recovered from the injury he went into the international break with.
@@lutontownsupporterstrust and I remember my mum taking me for lunch on my birthday in wimpy that was in the arndale centre 87 lol 🤣 how old is that lol 🤣
@@Lutonian79992- I too remember the Wimpy fondly - back in the 70’s the Wimpy was almost the only place you could get a burger in Luton - probably in the UK - we used to go there all the time. My mum took us all to McDonalds right after it opened in the brand spanking new Central Milton Keynes, probably around 1979 - we stood at the counter and she asked for “a Wimpy and chips”, lol. I nearly died on the spot - we then spent over an hour trying to find our car in the car park. I remember it like it was yesterday.