12-04-2022, 09:43
We started off the game really well, on the front foot and attacking Luton, we looked decent. Then for the remainder of the half we looked like we'd never met each other before. Passes going astray left right and center. Nervous on the ball and going backwards rather than forwards which in turn unsettled the crowd.
The referee let pretty much everything go in the first half IMO for both sides when he could've booked players from both sides.
Second half, how Luton didn't score in the opening minute I don't know but luckily they didn't.
Great finish from Russell to open the scoring, I don't know about anyone else but we were taken by surprise when it went in. It just looked like a hopeless lob that was going over or wide from our angle and the crowd reaction around the ground would suggest so did a lot of others.
That goal sparked Two things.
1) Luton trying to attack a bit more
2) The ref finding his cards.
Was it a pen, the ref certainly took his time to give it but you can see a tug on the Luton shirt and if you give the ref something to look at it can go either way. Personally I thought it was a penalty and did so at the time. Thankfully he slotted it wide.
I missed what happened to O'brien at the time as I was celebrating the penalty miss but managed to catch it on the telly box replay in the Exec box behind. This won't be popular but I think the ref got it spot on, It's a shove in the chest which LO'B makes the most of. It's not in the face or anywhere near the neck.
All that did though was show that the ref had lost total control mainly due to him not putting his mark on the game in the first half, yellow cards galore in that melee. He then books Nicholls for time wasting which got the crowds back up even more. Nicholls knew exactly what he was doing and if he can't catch the ball the Luton forward threw at him then I would suggest being a keeper isn't for him.
Nabby Sarr, I feared the worst when Nabby came on to replace a forward and the team were looking for instruction of who was to play where. Communication from the bench wasn't the best especially when you consider Holmes had only just come on. Surely they would have said what the plan was going to be for him to spread the word around the team.
Anyway fear not, Nabby got a couple of crucial clearances in and popped up with a free header which he had to stoop for at the far post to put the game out of reach for Luton.
I'm now on the Play off Bus, I'm still saying we won't win them but if we failed to make them from this position then it would be a disaster
The referee let pretty much everything go in the first half IMO for both sides when he could've booked players from both sides.
Second half, how Luton didn't score in the opening minute I don't know but luckily they didn't.
Great finish from Russell to open the scoring, I don't know about anyone else but we were taken by surprise when it went in. It just looked like a hopeless lob that was going over or wide from our angle and the crowd reaction around the ground would suggest so did a lot of others.
That goal sparked Two things.
1) Luton trying to attack a bit more
2) The ref finding his cards.
Was it a pen, the ref certainly took his time to give it but you can see a tug on the Luton shirt and if you give the ref something to look at it can go either way. Personally I thought it was a penalty and did so at the time. Thankfully he slotted it wide.
I missed what happened to O'brien at the time as I was celebrating the penalty miss but managed to catch it on the telly box replay in the Exec box behind. This won't be popular but I think the ref got it spot on, It's a shove in the chest which LO'B makes the most of. It's not in the face or anywhere near the neck.
All that did though was show that the ref had lost total control mainly due to him not putting his mark on the game in the first half, yellow cards galore in that melee. He then books Nicholls for time wasting which got the crowds back up even more. Nicholls knew exactly what he was doing and if he can't catch the ball the Luton forward threw at him then I would suggest being a keeper isn't for him.
Nabby Sarr, I feared the worst when Nabby came on to replace a forward and the team were looking for instruction of who was to play where. Communication from the bench wasn't the best especially when you consider Holmes had only just come on. Surely they would have said what the plan was going to be for him to spread the word around the team.
Anyway fear not, Nabby got a couple of crucial clearances in and popped up with a free header which he had to stoop for at the far post to put the game out of reach for Luton.
I'm now on the Play off Bus, I'm still saying we won't win them but if we failed to make them from this position then it would be a disaster