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Reluctant to say this because I don’t want to come across as though I’ve been waiting for this but I’ve never really bought into the Wilshere lov in. I’ve deliberately not said much because he clearly deserves credit for that excellent run at the end of last season. But ultimately it was a very good 12-week spell with a very, very expensive squad.

And, as has been said to death, 7th was a fucking shite outcome for Luton given our wealth and notions of being well run a club with parachute payments and the biggest budget in the division. That’s a catastrophic underachievement and for me it inevitably taints how I view that late run. It was good, absolutely, but it was also pretty much the bare minimum we should have expected from that squad by that point.

He’s got a lot to prove for me, and there are some really worrying signs already. We seem to be getting echoes of Rob and Matt at their worst — a complete inability to be pragmatic, some very hard to understand line ups and an inability to set the team up defensively and do the basics.

It’s far too early to write him off course. And the media wankfest over him at times is a bit much, but that’s not his fault either. It happens with every big name former footballer cutting their teeth in the lower leagues.

Three games in and Stockport at home now feels quite big. Didn’t think we’d be here as only a few months ago we were saying how dull the fixture list was!