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Six promotions and six relegations
Posted by Camavinga on 6/6/2023, 9:25:54
As a Luton fan since 1991. I’ve experience six relegation, six promotions. What a rollercoaster it is supporting this club. Add few admins, Johnstone paint win when going out the league and unable to defend the cup due to conference football!
Win at Norwich a then (and still?) record. First club to pay living wage. Turning down betting company sponsor Run by fans who love the club. Probably forgot many other things!
Promotion to the Premier League always a distance dream, I actually never cared in recent years about it, very content with championship football. Not complaining now of course!
How many promotions and relegations have you experienced?
My memory is getting bad, what happened in 2007-08 where we came last in L1, were we so bad or was in admin and unable to sign players? Is that the season Blackwell and his mates on last pay day we’re playing for us?
7 promotions (3 as champions) 6 relegations 3 FA Cup semi finals 2 League Cup Finals (1 win) 1 Simod Cup Final 1JPT Final (1 win) 3 Play Off Finals (1 win... )
One point that is now statistically true of us is that based on promotion and relegation, the average living Luton fan has seen more success than failure while following the club which still sounds kind of crazy given our tumultuous recent times!
Discussing the 1960/70's in the pub after the parade. I'm fairly sure Luton were the first club to fall from the top flight to the bottom tier of the league, (then the Fourth Division) and make it back again (1960 - 65 - 74).
A few clubs have done it since, Burnley and Wolves, spring to mind.
Don't know of any clubs doing that round trip twice, even if it didnt include a detour into nonleague.
Another non league club ahs beaten a premier league club since.
re: Premier league - yep never had any interest in being part of the overhyped overpaid money pit that is the premier league. Until it became a possibility!
2007-08 - Blackwell hadn't "come in to hang around in l1" , and was going to make signing that would blow our minds..
Except he forgot to sign centrebacks so we started with 2 +keane
He then did a staged meltdown after a game and claimed we had played "####ing well"
And claimed we never had any luck
We then went into admin, got deducted 10 point, sold our only decent centreback, leaving us with mr "never been relegated perry. harford got rid quick. So a Cb pairing of keane and hutchison. And not much up top
It was genuinely awful, he turned us into this OAP team and thank heavens the administrators saw through him!
That night at Anfield though, never felt so happy during a 5-0 defeat in all my life. And back then we didn't know just how good 2020 would be but we were out from "their" shadow and surely there were brighter things ahead . . .
They had sacked him before then I think - think they sacked him after teh first game when he said "i quit - was not promised this, but ask me nicely and i may stay on till the end of the season" . administrator said "no #### off" (although i think peopel mention Brendan Gullifoyle had spotted blackwell was manipulating transfers to get players to sheffield united where he knew he was going)
Some facts about Kevin Posted by Knowall Sackwell on 4/5/2008, 1:15 pm 66.197.241.55
Shall we get a few things out in the open about our former manager? And not the normal "he resigned" stuff. Right!
1 Luton asked Liverpool to offer their gate receipts and they said they would think about it. They then confirmed with Guilfoyle that they would be willing to do a deal but when Blackwell tried to "get involved" they blanked him. Blackwell then went out into the press and slated Liverpool for not supporting a club in administration. Liverpool then pulled the offer and Luton lost a significant amount of money - money that 20-20 had to then put up.
2 Blackwell tried to sell two players on the cheap to Sheff U two weeks before he resigned. Co-incedence? Could be, but...
3 Luton received an offer for one of these players at a much higher price just before we sold Coyne. Blackwell turned it down, so we had to sell Coyne. (The said player would have been less of a loss than Coyne and we could have got a loan to replace him). KB then tried to sell the same player to Sheff U at a cut price blaming Guilfoyles "fire-sale" approach. Guilfoyle blocked it and sussedKB.
4 Along with his buddy Ellis, they have been stirring up trouble about old Luton Town within the business. It seems many frinedly agents of Blackie are fully aware of every contract at our club. Over recent weeks Mick's ability to trade has been compromised by the fact that all and sundry know every detail of every player contract. Many players have been tapped up some quoting our friend in Sheffield.
That's just a few of the things that are fact. Others will also come out in due course.
One more fact about our Kevin Posted by Knowall Sackwell on 4/5/2008, 2:38 pm 66.197.241.55
He had a "consideable" incentive to support the relocation to you know where.
Blackwell - the details. Posted by Teacher on 7/5/2008, 9:54 pm 195.93.21.3
Blackwell turned down a £600k offer for Brill. Guilfoyle then sold Coyne out of necessity and because he thought KB preferred that option. Then KB tried to sell Brill to Sheff U for £250k. Three other players were "enquired about" by Sheff U at the same time.
From memory, Grant looked fairly decent and Wilson looked distinctly average. Funny how it was the other way around for their careers with Grant playing in the lower leagues and Wilson playing in the top flight and international football
Think that was the season when badgewell signed a collection of geriatrics and everything fell apart in december/january as the FA charges hit, pinkney dumped us into admin and ran a mile and we finished the season with no players and Mick starting to pick up the pieces.
I seem to remember Drew Talbot at least putting some effort in. Although in typical Luton fashion, we signed him as a striker, he forgot how to score and he spent the rest of his career as a wing back in the lower leagues...
I've still never seen a player as supremely skilled at Richard Langley at playing incredible cross field passes that achieved absolutely nothing.
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