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Just coming on to show a bit of balance…

Last night’s performance wasn’t acceptable, on any front. It was lethargic, half-paced and strewn with basic errors both physically and tactically. You could tell how this was going to play out from almost the first 5 minutes. Majority of possession passed along the back three, nothing insightful or threatening, nothing that looked even remotely like it could hurt Burnley, caught with a couple of sucker punch goals. Good night, Vienna. We rallied a little, showed a little bit of fight for 15 minutes, then totally faded. Shit night at the office. It happens. We made a good team look yards ahead us, when I think, if we’re firing, we aren’t that far away. I guess the frustrating thing, is apart from Dundee, the games I watched during preseason were exactly the same.

But, I really don’t get the anti-Edwards/Sweet sentiment at all. Its wild. I’m not an apologist, but I just think the level of teeth gnashing and chest beating isn’t really that valid. We lost. We were shit against a favourite with deeper pockets than us. It happens. It happens way more than people give credit for.

Its almost of as some posters and twitter goers think they’ve done this on purpose. Greedy Sweet not wanting to hand over cash like a modern-day Scrooge and Edwards wanting to ‘send a message’ to the board about not being backed so picks Johnson & Nelson? I mean seriously? Come on… Have you even been paying attention for the last 3 years?

I’m interested to know who the teeth gnashers think we should have signed? Who have we actually missed out on? Who aren’t we trying hard enough to get? Its ok saying ‘sign someone’ but who?

Sheaf- Come on. Why would the Coventry Captain come here. Is it a step up? Maybe, but we’re not playing £15million.
Rak-Sakyi- People are talking about £15million bids or a £1million loan fee and £25k a week? We’re totally priced out. Premier league cash or not. Why are we blowing the best part of £2.5 million on him?
McGuinness- £10million for a player no one outside of Cardiff has heard of? In a team floundering that leaks goals?

It’s almost as if these people, in their angry little minds think we aren’t actually trying to get players in? That we don’t have a plan. Haven’t thought about it? Or worse, being deliberately obtuse and having an agenda.

And who should we have played in the place of the youngsters? Was it right to throw them in? It didn’t work, but what choice did Edwards really have?

Holmes- Possibly, but he’s a bit lumbering for an outside centre back and right footed.
Pelly? Maybe, but Pelly has hardly showered himself in glory for a good 18 months. His last game against Celta Vigo, he bizarrely volleyed a simple back pass to their striker.

Both Johnson & Nelson featured for most of pre-season, Nelson notched twice and got some acclaim from those that watched the games. What should he have done? Played Pelly and Holmes instead? That was it. That would have solved it. Neither of those two could have done anything about those goals. I’d wager Holmes would still be puffing after Obobert now…

We have 6-7 players out. Yes, we need reinforcements, every single person in that stadium know that last night. Edwards knows it. Sweet knows it. Harford knows it. But we wont break everything to get someone in to appease the fans. That’s not us. We’re better than that. We will wait for the right person at the right price. And I for one support that.

I still stand by my statements previously that the ‘fan management’/PR at Luton is dire. For a club so connected to the fan base, it’s really lacking. The board are close enough to the supporter base to know what they need. Know the information they want. Its not new news. Yet we seem to be getting worse at it.