Luton Outlaws - Independent Message Board for Luton Town FC

The season in the Prem has messed with everybody's expectations. It seems as if the club is all over the place with what it thinks it should be, and is at risk of embarking on a downward spiral.

There seems to be 2 viable options from here:
1. Invest and make a serious campaign to go straight back up.
2. Restock, rebuild, and time our promotion push with PC.

I get the sense at the moment we're trying to navigate somewhere in between, and it'll leave us worse off and directionless.

If we don't invest and put together a serious promotion plan, the likes of Mengi, Doughty and Adebayo will be surely off sooner than later, and the fans and players will start losing faith and vision, further decreasing the chances of filling these holes.

If we are indeed planning on taking a slow season of rebuilding, then the club really needs to communicate this much better, so the fans come back on side, and the ground becomes more of a fortress again.

Talk of automatic promotion and 25k stadiums seems a bit condescending when we threw out half a development squad who got battered 4-1 at home. The narrative needs to be more about principles, realities, the value of nurturing youth, building to be more like Brentford, preparing for some uncomfortable results in the first month, etc, etc.

I feel like John Still would've recognised this, and felt the vibe of the club right now, and used it to steer the ship. We seem a bit off, a bit directionless, and without a true leader - both on the pitch and off it.