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The Simon Parker equivalent for the Luton local paper said they were 'very fortunate not to concede a penalty' - we can only hope we get a bit of luck in the remaining matches

 

Snatch your hand off for a point now. This game won’t be the one that relegates us.

 

If I was the manager I'd be telling the team we've just beat a play-off contender 3-1. Go out and do the same again.

 

Agree..

Starting with stop being scared of other teams.

Luton are top I can see that but they drew on Saturday and will now start to be feeling the pressure.

It's the business end of the season now! We've to believe we can beat anyone in our situation.

 

Let them have “their day”. Not the first set of fans to come to VP and play their “cup final”. Many forget that we’ve been there, done that up at the top level. Good luck to them.
Should also point out, Luton town centre is one of the few places that make Bradford’s high street look like Kensington. Let them enjoy their day out

 

Thought Akpan and Butterfield were great against Peterborough, both will be key again tonight. 1-1

 

Anderson is woeful in defending and Chicksen and NKP on our left side look a liability but we're not playing badly

 

You're impressed I see!

 

That’s a rubbish spot the ball competition

 

We offered nothing unfortunately. Luton never got out of 2nd gear.
Not sure why our best player has been dropped either.

 

I get that, but if we had been given the penalty as we should've done, I think we get a point. And then their fans probably have my point of view as to how average they were.

 

They had two. Sonny Bradley was one.

The template for what we need at the back next season, whatever division we’re in.

 

I think Luton did a professional job on us. Ran us ragged in the first half and then allowed us as much possession as we wanted second half knowing full well we had nothing to hurt them with. Bowyer has given us more shape than Hopkin did but he'll soon realise that he can't wave a magic wand over the fundamental flaws in this team, namely a dodgy defence, an attack with little goal threat and a sever lack of pace when on the attack. Shame because a decent side would have caused them problems.

 

Can anyone tell me what Anderson offers? I can't work out what type of midfielder he is but he was absolutely dreadful tonight.

 

It's bullshit, I don't really care if Chicksen gets slated as awful for a bang average performance, even though it's a bit unfair, but he was actually pretty good today.

It just makes people look a bit dense when they spew the same crap regardless of what actually happens.

 

Sorry Jon, I have to disagree. Defensively chicksen was all over the shop, granted he didn't have tonnes of support but caddis coped fairly well on the other side and his support was none existent from Anderson.

On the ball, he treats the thing like a bomb, can't wait to get rid of it in whichever direction is easiest. He played a couple of hospital balls today for sure. His attacking was non existent, never got over halfway and was bullied by their frontline.

He's not on his own though, the exact same could be said for NKP.

 

Hopkin resigned a while ago and our new manager is Gary Bowyer.

 

Well you can berate Luton and the Town as much as you want, I'd be delighted to be in their position upsetting the opposition fans for the tactics they used.

 

Apart from that, we're fine.

 

The problem I have with Chicksen, is that he just does the basics badly. His positioning is often out, his overlapping is minimal - but that's a little bit excusable because we don't have any width in the team, but it's his passing that infuriates me. If it's not passed backwards because he's run into trouble, it's pinged inside at 90 miles an hour to an unsuspecting midfielder. He did it yesterday a few time. A ball played sideways at full pelt, to Butterfield (who has a decent first touch) when he was surrounded by players. The ball was either taken off him straight away, or bounced off his shins it was hit so hard to him. Caddis on the other hand, always tries to cut inside the opposition players, and looks to play a lofted ball into space (sometimes an empty one), but is always looking to signal to who he's passing it to, and at least puts the occasional cross in, or looks to get to the byline.

And while we're at it. A word about NKP. He's back to his worst again. Misplaced passes, going missing from his designated position, and headers going straight up in the air, or coming off his head at a weird angle. I'm not suprised he chose to miss with his foot instead of his head when 2 yards in front of the goal. Probably would have gone over the stand.