Those Hatters fans amongst the crowd of 688, down at Dorchester Town last night, will be ruing the fact that our defending from set-pieces cost us a win.
Travelling 143 miles, in difficult conditions, isn`t a thing I`d recommend to anyone, even more so when it means climbing into bed at 01:30 in the morning and having to arise, to go to work at 05:30.
But being a football supporter these are the thing we do and the draw,, in the FA Trophy first round tie, means that we will be playing Dorchester Town three time sin eight days, with our paths crossing in the FA Cup this Saturday and in the replay for this game.
However, on reflection, a draw wasn`t to bad a result seeing as Dorchester had won one out of their ten home games this season and had the scalp of a Football League side, Plymouth Argyle, to their name, but then again, if we hadn`t missed so many chances then we`d have cruised this one.
Luton got off to the perfect start, taking the lead in the first minute when Andre Gray dithered and Neil Martin could only contrive to slip the ball past hi sown keeper. Gray had numerous chances to put Luton further ahead and could have had a hat-trick before half time, but he`d obviously left those prolific shooting boots back in the Kenilworth Road dressing room.
Sadly those missed chances were to cost us dearly with Dorchester equalizing when Ben Watson drove a low shot past Mark Tyler. But hopes of a Hatters victory, on the night, were boosted when Stuart Fleetwood, on as a substitute, netted. With time running out, all it needed was some decent defending from an injury time set-piece to book that place in the second round but Charlie Clough found acres of space to meet the cross and head home past Tyler.
Time to do it all again in midweek then!
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