Luton Town: John Still admits he would have booed Hatters off himself after poor Rovers display

John Still admitted he had ‘no complaints’ with Luton fans booing his side after they lost 1-0 to a 94^th minute Bristol Rovers goal last night.

It was the second consecutive League Two match that the Hatters conceded so deep into injury time and after his men failed to have a single shot on target the manager confessed that the Pirates ‘deserved’ their victory.

The first defeat in the division this term for winless Luton led to jeers from the Kenilworth Road crowd at the final whistle and Still said: “I’d have booed. I’ve got no complaints with that. I remember when I first came here and people were saying about the supporters being unhappy. Well, when you don’t play well supporters are going to be unhappy. That’s football.

“This is the real world we live in. When you win they’re happy, when you don’t win they’re not happy. There’s nothing wrong with that.

“I’ve been in the game too long to worry about one game. We’ve been really poor in one game. The year we came up we were poor in a few games and I’m sure we’ll be poor again, but we’ll go back to work, believe in what we do and we’ll hope that we can find the right way of producing the right results.”

Stuart Sinclair claimed the last-gasp winner just when Luton looked to have scraped a point from an abject display against a Rovers side that have not lost on their travels since September 6, 2014.

“I thought they deserved to win,” Still said of Bristol, adding that in stark contrast to their performance against Oxford on Saturday: “From the first minute we never played with that intensity. We had little periods where we did, but not sustained.

“We didn’t move the ball quick enough, spent too long on the ball and let them get behind the ball. When we did cross our crossing was poor. We never really tested their goalkeeper. They didn’t really test Mark [Tyler], in fairness, but for the away team, I thought they deserved to win.

“We haven’t played well enough and, if I’m honest, I don’t really know why.

“I don’t have any complaints with the result, whether they scored early or late or whatever.”

Still’s only praise was reserved for his three centre halves – Steve McNulty, Luke Wilkinson and Scott Cuthbert – saying it’s been Luton’s ‘most consistent’ area in all three league games so far.

But he was left to rue a night where nothing went right in an offensive sense, as slow, inaccurate passing, poor crossing and a lack of tempo took its toll.

“Our attacking play…if it didn’t go through Paddy McCourt we didn’t attack,” the manager said.