Luton Town Post Match Thoughts

[CAMiller]

It can't be often that you score a goal in a game and 2 hours later you are still playing! Conspiracy theories continue to circle about the way the referees treat RUFC but surely the statistics don't lie? All in all it's a good but disappointing point to sign off with before the World Cup break where hopefully the players can rest and recuperate in preparation for starting the season again in mid-December.

Thoughts?

[CHAPELMILLER]

Heartbreaking to concede in the manner we did. My biggest bug bare is we've had 7 booked to their 1. Luton players were commiting similar fouls to the ones our players were carded for and got away with it. The one who did get booked was for handball!
Teams at the bottom picking points up today which makes the result worse than it was.
The world cup break now gives us chance to regroup and refresh. Hopefully the 3 weeks on the training pitch will pay off when we restart against Brizzel on the 10th of December. UTM!

[Lolmorgan]

Good point but we can’t keep giving the other teams shooting practice,18 shots for Luton,law of averages says one will go in.

[Derbymiller]

It can't be often that you score a goal in a game and 2 hours later you are still playing! Conspiracy theories continue to circle about the way the referees treat RUFC but surely the statistics don't lie? All in all it's a good but disappointing point to sign off with before the World Cup break where hopefully the players can rest and recuperate in preparation for starting the season again in mid-December.

Thoughts?

We didn't play as well as Tuesday, but what do you expect all these games, but i think it is a good result away to another team that were in the playoffs last season and are a top ten team. The back three were excellent, Barlasar a little off his best, wing-backs did ok and wiles and Ogbene chased and chased. Taking wiles off didn't help because he closes down so well, but we are 16th on 26 points, only three points off the bottom three, but we are showing an ability to fight against any team in this league, remember that we play 12 men nearly every game. 7 bookings at least 3 of them were for nothing, the Washington was plain cheating by their captain, unbelievable. Explain to me how a player makes THREE deliberate hand-balls and is still on the pitch!! Only booked for the 3rd one, the Ref added 7 minutes on, when the trainer game on once in the 2nd half and that was for 2 minutes, the officials have been told to look for any time wasting by Rotherham and add time on every time, we did not time waste today, we slowed down play but you are entitled to do that if the ball is in play.
Need to get some points in December to go into January above the bottom 3 and then hopefully we strengthen and the time on the training pitch during the world cup pays off.

[jocksgloves]

Very grateful for a point today. They wasted so many chances with their final ball.
Why oh why, did we waste the few free kicks we got on their penalty box? We were awful with them. Will take the point and run.
Has to be said though, we played more passy football than them.

[Ronners]

I posted this on almost the last thing on the matchday thread so thought I'd put it on here.

As frustrating as it is, if we'd have been offered 2 points from the next 2 games away against the blades and luton, after the Norwich defeat, we'd have snatched their hands off, but we actually got 4 points so in my mind we are 2 points up. UTM

[sota]

Great point, could’ve been 3. Viktor outstanding yet again. Nice to see Mick Harford get an ovation from their fans at the end.

[sawmiller]

Very grateful for a point today. They wasted so many chances with their final ball.
Why oh why, did we waste the few free kicks we got on their penalty box? We were awful with them. Will take the point and run.
Has to be said though, we played more passy football than them.

The fact that teams at the lower end have been bagging points recently reinforces my thoughts that at least one side will take the drop with 50 plus points this season - good point though hope we can find a way of regularly closing games out when we have the advantage. Hope we can put more daylight between ourselves and those below us by the time January comes

[MillerBill]

Heartbreaking to concede in the manner we did. My biggest bug bare is we've had 7 booked to their 1. Luton players were commiting similar fouls to the ones our players were carded for and got away with it. The one who did get booked was for handball!
Teams at the bottom picking points up today which makes the result worse than it was.
The world cup break now gives us chance to regroup and refresh. Hopefully the 3 weeks on the training pitch will pay off when we restart against Brizzel on the 10th of December. UTM!

That was a ridiculous number of players being booked and the later the match goes on the more these players are aware that another means red.This is a massive disadvantage to us and once again seems like the norm for the Millers with the bookings.They should have had as many cards as us.Let's hope Howard Webb in January sorts out this refereeing vendetta against us.

[mygiddypant]

disappointing and unlucky not to finish with three points. Plenty to be happy with, particularly some passages of passing play that made us look like MC.

Couple of things for MT to look at. Why does Bramall stand with Barlaser at corner kicks? It's good that he's willing, but just tell him to leave it to Dan. Why don't we shoot more often? Can anyone remember the last time we scored with a deflection? (I'm sure someone will).