Would You Be Content To Stick With What We’ve Got To Ensure Luton Town’s Survival

Since the 2019 / 2020 EFL season was so rudely interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a lot of media-driven noise relating to the dire financial recriminations the season stoppage will have for several EFL clubs.

Here at Vital Luton Town, we are only too aware of how, in the past, our club has suffered dramatically from financial mismanagement.

However, we readily accept and welcome the fact that the current hierarchy are running the club properly and, more importantly, have the future of the club at heart.

I doubt there is anyone out there who would want to see any of the EFL clubs go bust and disappear into the history books.

But, the announcement of the axing of Graeme Jones and the majority of his backroom staff last Friday, has set alarm bells ringing.

While many Luton supporters will be relieved that Graeme Jones has gone, with his style of football not being the most welcome aspect of his short reign, there are several who realise that the very survival of the club is of paramount importance now.

Indeed, it is a point driven home by many who have taken the time out to post in our comment facility with those reproduced below typically illustrating the point:

“I think we all agree. We have no idea what’s happening and the point is we must trust the board to bring us through this and survival is upmost. Not relegation or whatever league we end up in.”

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“I am thinking that the boards logic is that saving the club is the number one priority. Their investment must be protected and the new stadium built. Jones wages and the others will be a huge burden at this time.”

Now, I’m not in a position to be able to reveal just how cash-strapped the club is at the moment and how badly they, like other clubs, are suffering from the lack of income coming through the turnstiles and other revenue streams associated with match days.

But our club is, as we all realise, at a crossroads very few others are approaching.

The desire to leave Kenilworth Road and move to a brand-new stadium at Power Court is seen as an ambition that will shape our long-term future, a future funded by the building of the Newlands development and a future that should see the club flourish.

But funding is the key word!

Amidst the ongoing crisis, we can only speculate as to whether the financial aspects will impact upon our future in the brave new world of Power Court.

Will the club be able to press on with the development in the proposed timescale or will it be delayed, or, heaven forbid, pushed to one side as survival becomes the main priority?

It is something only the select few will know, but like it was said in the comments I chose to re-publish, in the grand scheme of things survival is the most important matter at the moment and if we have to remain at Kenilworth Road for the next decade or so, then so be it!

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