MillersMad Match Thread...Millers v Luton Town

[Heliosphan78]

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest match thread and our away day at Kenilworth Road, home of Luton Town.

Let's meet our hosts.

The Boss
Jack Wilshere was appointed manager of Luton on 13/10/2025 after the club parted company with Matt Bloomfield. Prior to his appointment, he coached Arsenal u18s and more recently, towards the end of last season, he had a brief spell as interim manager of Norwich City. Aged 33, the rookie manager is in his first senior managerial role.

Player(s) to watch
Other than Nahki Wells and the ex Millers, I've picked out two other players who could impact the game.

Isaiah Jones.
The 26 year old winger has been injured for most of this season but played his first full 90 minutes last Saturday against Stockport (and scored). A player with considerable championship experience (132 appearances for Middlesbrough), he could be a real danger to the Millers on Saturday.

Jake Richards.
The 18 year old striker was signed from Exeter in the summer. He played on the right of a front 3 against Stockport (Luton's last game) and looked a handful. He's a player with real potential who could cause us problems.

Recent Form
Last 6 in all competitions

Stockport 0 v 3 Luton (L1)
Luton 4 v 3 Forest Green (FA Cup)
Luton 3 v 1 Brighton U21s (Vertu)
Northampton 0 v 1 Luton (L1)
Luton 0 v 2 Mansfield (L1)
Cambridge 3 v 1 Luton (Vertu)

Latest Odds
Luton 1/2 Draw 5/2 Millers 9/2

Recent Meetings
(15/4/2023)
Rotherham 0 v 2 Luton

(12/11/2022)
Luton 1 v 1 Rotherham
(Jamie Lindsay)

Summary
Luton should come very close to an automatic promotion slot this season. An ambitious new manager, players returning from injury to an already strong squad and a parachute payment of 40 million (due this season) are things which are likely to tip the balance in their favour come the end of season shake-up.

That remains to be seen of course but in the meantime, Jack Wilshere has had a very positive start to his managerial career. Despite losing his first game in charge, Luton have since won their last 4 games, most notably a 3-0 victory away at league leaders Stockport County last Saturday.

Luton are a different team to the one under Matt Bloomfield and confidence will be high so this game will represent a big challenge for us. We obviously still have problems in defence and this will be tested on Saturday against a pacy Luton outfit, certainly more so than against a very one dimensional Lincoln team.

We'll have to be at our best on Saturday if we're to come away with a positive result.

Enjoy the game everyone, UTM.

[Scum-Triumphant]

Cracking intro as always mate. Thank you.

Luton can hurt us. Hopefully it doesn?t get toxic if we lose.

[Heliosphan78]

Cracking intro as always mate. Thank you.

Luton can hurt us. Hopefully it doesn?t get toxic if we lose.

Thank you, always a pleasure sir 😁

[Brin]

Another top write up, thanks.

As for anything going toxic if we lose, jeez, after the recent run we've been on with 5 in the back line missing........

[Andy1968]

Brilliant intro mate. 40 mil! What a ridiculous parachute payment system. No wonder wannabee clubs overspend and get in bother when the gamble fails and the PP's dry up.

[RU66]

Brilliant intro mate. 40 mil! What a ridiculous parachute payment system. No wonder wannabee clubs overspend and get in bother when the gamble fails and the PP's dry up.

Good for Odoffin probably doubled his wages at least from what he was getting here.

[Timbertop]

All the experts are tipping Luton to win the league. Suppose any point will be a bonus but I can’t see our makeshift defence being able to cope with what will probably be the quickest side we’ve encountered so far.

[uttis]

This is a free hit today I for one would be delighted with a point but won’t be too disappointed if we lose, make no mistake Luton will be in the top 3 come May, given our recent run we can have a bit of optimism but I think we can target the Reading fixture to get something out of, hopefully Tom Holmes MIGHT be in contention and Martha will be back

[Townerslovechild]

Luton should be top 3 at the end of the season, so any return today would ve great, but play like last week and we've a chance for all 3 points.
Don't expect many changes,if anyone is back they won't be fit to start anyway.
Probably Kaleta in for Martha, which I know Gru will be hoping for.

[ScjR]

It will be Rotherham's 19th appearance at Kenilworth Road and a point or more would be a very good result.
Rotherham have a win rate of 22%, drawn 28% and lost 50% of matches at Luton.
The highest attendance at Kenilworth Road came on 24th November 1951, 23,565 in attendance. The lowest attendance came in the FA Cup second round replay in 2009, 2,518. The average attendance at Kenilworth Road against Rotherham is 10,881.
Luton have a goal average per game at home against Rotherham of 1.72, Rotherham's average goal per game at Kenilworth Road is 1.17.
All time top goalscorer's For Rotherham against Luton Town
Alan Kirkman 6
Ken Houghton 3
Jack Grainger 3
All time top goalscorers for Luton Town against Rotherham
Gordon Turner 11
Tony Thorpe 3
Bert Mitchell 2
Jesse Pye 2
Jackie Lornie 2
Bruce Rioch 2
Brian Lewis 2
Keith Allan 2
Alwin McGuffie 2
Harry Walden 2
Made the most appearances for Rotherham Utd against Luton Town
Jack Grainger 9
Alan Kirkman 8
Gladstone Guest 8
Lol Morgan 8
Norman Noble 8
Peter Madden 8
Roy Lambert 8
Jack Selkirk 8
Ken Houghton 8
Made the most appearances for Luton Town against Rotherham Utd
Bob Morton 14
Gordon Turner 12
Brendan McNally 8
Tom 'Bud' Aherne 8
John Bramwell 8

A-Z Played for both
Cohen Bramall, Izzy Brown
Billy Clarkson (Rotherham County)
Bob Delgado
Rodney Fern, Billy Frith (Rotherham County)
Ryan Giles, Lee Glover, Tony Grealish, Scott Griffiths
Ryan Hall, Vic Halom, Bernie Harris (Rotherham County), Ian Henderson, Peter Holmes, Danny Hylton
Rossi Jarvis
Peter Kioso, Andy Kiwomya
Conrad Logan
Craig McAllister, Harvey McCreadie (Rotherham schoolboys), Carlton Morris, Johnny Mullins
Sid Neal (Rotherham County), Sam Nombe
Hakeem Odoffin, Chiedozie Ogbene, Fred Onyedinma
Kevin Pilkington, Lewis Price
Will Raynes, Jimmy Reid, Luke Rooney
John Seasman, Laurie Sheffield, Andrew Shinnie
Steve Thompson, Tony Thorpe
Imre Varadi
Kevin Watson, Julian Watts, Robert Wilson
Jerry Yates

Made their Rotherham debut at Kenilworth Road
Jim Dobbin
Played their last match for Rotherham at Kenilworth Road
Jock Henderson, Matthew Olosunde

One to remember
Rotherham United 5 Luton Town 2 10th December 1960 (Kirkman (2), Houghton (2), Perry) - (Turner (2))
One to Forget
Rotherham United 1 Luton Town 5 29th January 1955 (Guest) - (Turner (3), Cummins, Cullen)