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Luton Fans – Has The Enforced Break Changed Your Opinion When It Comes To Championship Survival?

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Another three weeks, minimum, of lock down was the message broadcast by the government yesterday.

Stay home and stay safe is the message emanating from the capital and it is one we have to obey, however boring life under lock down is now becoming.

I’m sat here, typing away, but watching the odd pedestrian amble past the window doing their daily exercise and it struck me just when was the last time Luton Town were in action.

Well, it was 07-March-2020 when an injury-time save from Simon Sluga ensured the Hatters returned to leafy Bedfordshire with a share of the spoils and another valuable point in their quest to retain their Championship status.

By my reckoning that was some 41 days and by the time, if it does, the EFL season resumes, it wouldn’t surprise me if the period between games reached an astonishing 80 days.

The enforced break couldn’t have come at a worse time for Graeme Jones side after they’d finally started to put a run of form together that suggested they could pull off what some critics were describing as impossible, namely, stay up.

When the 2019 / 2020 season finally does resume, the Hatters will need to complete the following fixtures:

• Preston North End (h)
• Swansea City (a)
• Leeds United (a)
• Reading (h)
• Barnsley (h)
• Huddersfield (a)
• Queens Park Rangers (h)
• Hull City (a)
• Blackburn Rovers (h)

And accumulate sufficient points to finish, at the minimum, fourth from bottom.

But what are your thoughts on what awaits us?

Has the enforced break given you renewed hope that survival is not only possible but probable?

Has the enforced break acted like the close season where ambition and hopes are sky-high as we enter a new season?

Or has the enforced break given you the time to evaluate just where it all went wrong and, as Private Fraser was always muttering in the popular comedy – Dads Army – “we’re all doomed”

Please feel free to drop your viewpoint into the comment facility beneath this article.

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  • Chris winter says:

    Hi mh, an interesting topic to dicuss we probably haven’t had a situation like this since the big freeze of 1963 an even that left time to finish the league. I can only hope that when we restart it will really be a mini league an that we can get off on the right foot with a win. I was of the opinion that we were being relegated before this happened an so we’re many of your contributers. I think that there is more chance now of escaping than before. But it will be vital for us to start well an win 3 of our first 4 games if we are to survive. But who knows. Also what side will we be able to field. With uncertainty over contracts running out an nothing being decided on if they must stand until the end of the season

    • Mad Hatter says:

      the contract situation is a testing one and one that needs sorting out quickly. But like you say we must get off to a good start otherwise we’re doomed!

  • Rich says:

    I’m not bothered anymore. Be great if we pulled it off and got some points, my thoughts are more longer term and that the club pulls through this without going to the wall. So if the season is void or we go down on a points per game scenario or finish the league however id just want a team to support when normality resumes be that championship or league 1.

    • Mad Hatter says:

      sobering thoughts, it’d be awful if any club were to go to the wall in this situation but I believe some unfortunately will 🙁

    • Alan says:

      Agree with rich too, having a team is the main thing , championship or league 1 doesn’t matter one jot….the longer this goes on the tho we can kiss out new ground goodbye…

  • Alan Robinson says:

    Agree with Rich.Remember those five seasons in the Conference ?I’m therefore not concerned that we will have to “endure ” Division One next season – just as long as there is a Town and a Next Season.Football isn’t really top priority at the moment — far more important is everyone’s health,wealth and sanity Stay Safe all you Hatters out there!

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