Championship Play Off Final

[MAD_MAGPIE]

Really pleased for Luton Town on getting promoted to the premier league. Their decline from when we both got relegated from the top flight the season before it became the premier league was similar to ours. However they crashed out of the football league before us.

It really does give us hope and inspiration for the future that it is possible to rise from the bottom upwards. For them to do it in nine years is a remarkable achievement.

Even if they come straight back down they will earn enough money to probably build a new stadium which typically has a positive effect on clubs in the long term like it has done with Brighton and Brentford.

Let’s look at Luton’s climb up the mountain;

2008/09 - Relegated to the National League They had five seasons in it.

2013/14 - Promoted back to the EFL.
2014/15 - League 2 (8th)
2015/16 - League 2 (11th)
2016/17 - League 2 (4th) Playoff Semi Final Defeat to Blackpool
2017/18 - League 2 (2nd) Promoted
2018/19 - League 1 (1st) Promoted
2019/20 - Championship (19th)
2020/21 - Championship (12th)
2021/22 - Championship (6th) Playoff Semi Final Defeat to Huddersfield
2022/23 - Championship (3rd) Playoff Final Winners to Coventry

This is what we need now a decade of finishing higher each season than the season before. Although in their second season back in the EFL they dropped down a couple of places but nothing significant in the grand scheme of things.

[Glad2BeAPie]

Lovely strike by Rob Matthews as I recall secured us the win.

When their fans knew they we're relegated, they were chanting "bye bye Pembridge bye bye" as a reference to Mark Pembridge who signed for Derby. I was stewarding that day on the County Rd side

[MAD_MAGPIE]

Some pens in this one, reminds me of hiding behind the couch in our shootout.

Also known as “doing a Paul Cook”

[Old_pie]

Really pleased for Luton Town on getting promoted to the premier league. Their decline from when we both got relegated from the top flight the season before it became the premier league was similar to ours. However they crashed out of the football league before us.

It really does give us hope and inspiration for the future that it is possible to rise from the bottom upwards. For them to do it in nine years is a remarkable achievement.

Even if they come straight back down they will earn enough money to probably build a new stadium which typically has a positive effect on clubs in the long term like it has done with Brighton and Brentford.

Let’s look at Luton’s climb up the mountain;

2008/09 - Relegated to the National League They had five seasons in it.

2013/14 - Promoted back to the EFL.
2014/15 - League 2 (8th)
2015/16 - League 2 (11th)
2016/17 - League 2 (4th) Playoff Semi Final Defeat to Blackpool
2017/18 - League 2 (2nd) Promoted
2018/19 - League 1 (1st) Promoted
2019/20 - Championship (19th)
2020/21 - Championship (12th)
2021/22 - Championship (6th) Playoff Semi Final Defeat to Huddersfield
2022/23 - Championship (3rd) Playoff Final Winners to Coventry

This is what we need now a decade of finishing higher each season than the season before. Although in their second season back in the EFL they dropped down a couple of places but nothing significant in the grand scheme of things.

Not that a dissimilar story when we were in the quagmire when Dunnett took us over as strugglers in the bottom tier and virtually bust (1966) and took us steadily to the top tier with Sirrel.

[keldsyke]

Any news on the lad that collapsed? (Sorry don’t know his name)

[Pies4u]

Lockyer, the Luton captain. They said he was conscious and talking after the game, heard nothing since tho’. Very concerning situation really, can only hope he’s ok and soon restored to full health.

[Glad2BeAPie]

Luton Council doing them a celebration event on Monday not 3 months after and not shamed into it.

https://www.lutontown.co.uk/news/202...luton-council/

[Old_pie]

Luton Council doing them a celebration event on Monday not 3 months after and not shamed into it.

https://www.lutontown.co.uk/news/202...luton-council/

But did they have one when they got out of the NL?

To be fair, and I'm still buzzing from our result, getting into the top flight is a bit different to getting out of the gutter and into the basement.

[SwalePie]

But did they have one when they got out of the NL?

To be fair, and I'm still buzzing from our result, getting into the top flight is a bit different to getting out of the gutter and into the basement.

Agreed