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If you'd said at the season's beginning that come February, we'd be a point and a place above Luton with a game in hand in their favour, you'd have hoped that David Pleat had come out of retirement to bring the golden years back to Kenilworth Road. Sadly, the two clubs have instead met in the wilds of mid-table, with Luton looking distinctly upwardly-mobile in their form. To my eyes, Steve Bruce has elicited a spark of effort from the players in the last two matches, but that effort isn't matched by confidence or (in some cases) quality, and the results have reflected that.

Our historical record against the Hatters is a positive one, with four league wins on the bounce stretching back to 2006-07, and a far longer unbeaten run at Kenilworth Road since Luton's 3-2 win on 3rd May 1994. But our goal drought on the road is reaching epic proportions, having now equalled the run from 1986, and standing just one shut-out short of being our worst since the dry run of September-December 1923. Nor does the weather forecast promise the friendliest of conditions; presuming the game goes ahead, torrential rain and gale force winds are the forecast for Bedfordshire. But two years ago, an Albion promotion challenge on the rocks ventured down to Millwall on a stormy February weekend and came back with vital points; somehow, this weekend Brucie must look to do the same.