Luton Town News 24/7Writer: Scotty 
Date:Thursday April 5 2007
Time: 12:04AM
UK time is: 23:52:17
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Relegation or Reprieve
Lets be honest...it's not easy being a Luton Fan. Up and down and down and up and down. And so goes our season. Though in the last few years weve been doing all right and making a bit of a name for ourselves again.
More of a 'Luton Town.......remember us?'
But are we in for a spot of luck? Do we really want to return the Mid 90s effort of having to avoid relegation year after year after year.
Let's hope things can be turned around by Blackwell.......and soon. Who knows, by the time you read this we might have beaten Southampton and QPR and be on our way to sort out Plymouth......
We haven't even got reduced season tickets for next season advertised yet, so at least the club are hanging on ......... ARE YOU?
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I THINK OUR RECENT UP AND DOWN PROBLEMS STARTED WITH OUR DEFEAT AT NOTTS COUNTY IN 92. THE LAST GAME WE PLAYED IN THE TOP FLIGHT ,WHEN WE DROPPED OUT OF THE OLD 1ST DIVISION RIGHT ON THE EVE OF PREMIERSHIP FOOTBALL WITH ALL ITS TV MILLIONS , WE WERE THEN ALLOWED TO FREEFALL IN A DOWNWARD SPIRAL ,IT WAS ONLY WHEN A BIT OF MONEY WAS SPENT ON DECENT MANAGEMENT ,COACHES AND PLAYERS DID WE START CLIMBING BACK ,BUT WITH OUR SUCCESS LAST SEASON AND THE FAILURE TO HAVE MOVED TO OUR MUCH NEEDED NEW STADIUM BY NOW, AFTER YEARS OF FALSE PROMISES ,THEN ALONG CAME THE VULTURES AND WITH THEIR INFLATED PRICES THAT THEY WERE PREPARED TO PAY FOR OUR PLAYERS WHO HAD GIVEN US OUR RECENT SUCCESS ,THIS WAS, IN THE EYES OF CERTAIN PEOPLE RUNNING OUR CLUB ,JUST TO GOOD TO MISS. AND JUST LIKE THE 88 89 CUP FINAL SQUAD, THEY WERE ALLOWED TO BE DISMANTALLED AT AN ALARMING RATE ONCE WE GOT SUCCESSFULL . WITH THE EXCEPTION OF NICO ,WHO WANTS TO COME HOME ANYWAY, OUR BEST PLAYERS ARE ALL NOW PLAYING FOR TEAMS AT THE TOP OF OUR DIVISION WITH AMBITIONS OF BETTER THINGS AND PLAYING IN STADIUM THAT HAVE ALL HAD MAJOR INVESTMENT OVER THE SAME 15 YEAR TIMESPAN ,WE ARE IN A CATCH 22 UNTIL WE GET THAT SHINEY NEW STADIUM WE KEEP BEING PROMISED.................................................................... JUST A THOUGHT , WHERE WERE WIGAN & READING PLAYING 15 YEARS AGO AND WHERE ARE THEY NOW THANKS TO INVESTMENT ?
monty zumas
Monty Monty Monty! For your generation yes. For my generation it was in the sixties and seventies when we went from top division right down to needing to seek re-election to stay in the football league, then back up to the top division again. Since then we have not changed. Up and down!
scotty
Im afraid werwe going down!!
calum72
SCOTTY ,I AGREE, IN THE SIXTIES & THE SEVENTIES AND EVEN BEFORE THAT , WE WERE NEVER A GLAMOUR CLUB WITH LOADS OF MONEY BUT WE WERE ALWAYS A PROUD CLUB , LOVED BY ITS LOYAL BAND OF SUPPORTERS ,I KNOW WE HAD REAL MONEY PROBLEMS PRIOR TO THE EIGHTIES ERA & SEVERAL TIMES ALMOST GOING TO THE WALL BUT I STILL FEEL, IF ONLY WE COULD HAVE STAYED UP IN 92 WHEN WE WERE AN ESTABLISHED TOP DIVISION CLUB OF SOME 10 YEARS STANDING .BUT THE POWERS THAT BE ALLOWED THE BEST SQUAD WE HAD HAD FOR YEARS BE BROKEN UP AND REPLACED WITH LESSER PLAYERS BECAUSE OF LACK OF INVESTMENT ,WHICH RINGS BELLS WITH WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE OUR PROMOTION LAST YEAR , IF WE HAD KEPT OUR BETTER PLAYERS BACK THEN, THEN MAYBE JUST MAYBE ,WE COULD NOW HAVE BEEN A MID TABLE PREMIERSHIP CLUB OR A TOP CHAMPIONSHIP CLUB ABLE TO HOLD ON TO OUR BETTER PLAYERS AND OF COURSE IN A NEW GROUND ,IT REALLY ANNOYS ME THAT OUR GREAT CLUB IS ALLOWED TO FESTER EVERY FEW YEARS , AS THESE SO CALLED MONEY MEN , WITH BIG IDEAS BUT LITTLE BACKING ,COME IN & TAKE OVER THE RUNNING OF OUR CLUB, THEN WHEN THEY'VE HAD ENOUGH, DECIDE TO CASH IN RATHER THAN INVEST MORE MONEY TO MOVE US FORWARD TO THE NEXT PHASE.I DONT KNOW WHAT THE BOARD HAVE TOLD MR BLACKWELL AS HE SEEMS VERY HAPPY AT THE MOMENT ,BUT I THINK IT WAS WHAT BIG FAT JOE AND NEWELLY WERE TOLD WHEN THEY TOOK THE HOT SEAT ,THAT THERE WILL BE MAJOR INVESTMENT IN THE CLUB ,A BRAND NEW STADIUM AND A HOST OF NEW PLAYERS AT YOUR DISPOSLE .REMEMBER KEVIN , AT LEAST YOU CAN TELL WHEN PINOCCIO'S TELLING FIBS......
monty zumas
Yes - that's a different matter, but we've always been a selling club. The only time we weren't was when we went into the top division last time and hung on to our best players while the board memebrs kept pumping in money. Once they stopped we dropped like a stone. Going down on goal difference just as the Premiership was starting was a real killer. One more point that year and we would have stayed up and the big media money might have kept us there.
scotty
come on, don't give up hope! Send Leeds, QPR and Southend down!
merlin
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