Luton Town: I always knew Hatters would come good says John Still

Luton Town manager John Still insists he has been around the block long enough to know that his Hatters side would eventually start to come good this season.

After a difficult start to the campaign which only saw Luton record their first league victory at the sixth time of asking, the Hatters have now clocked up three wins on the spin following Tuesday’s 3-1 win at Morecambe.

Luke Wilkinson, Cameron McGeehan and Jonathan Smith were all on target against the Shrimps as victory lifted them to within just two points of the play-offs.

And Still insisted he always had confidence in his players to start delivering on the pitch.

“We’re getting stronger and I’m really really pleased with how we’re going,” he said.

“Will there be some slips ups? Of course there will be, but as I said last year my teams start slow and will get strong and it will happen again.

“The support at this club always has been phenomenal. I’m pleased as when we start slow people get disappointed, I don’t, I’ve been that soldier for too many years, so it’s good to see their football team come good.

“The one thing that we lack at the start of the season is sharpness as the work we do is heavy, but the sharpness is coming like it did last year. And when you put the power to that, the longer the season goes, I’m really hopeful we’ll have a good season.”

Luton had opened the scoring on 13 minutes through Wilkinson before Tom Barkhuizen levelled for the home side 12 minutes later.

And while McGeehan quickly responded for Still’s men and Smith made the game safe late on, the Hatters manager insisted his players still had the capacity to improve further.

” I’m not getting over the top, we’ve played well and we’ve won well,” he added.

“At the moment we’re pleased with what we’re doing. We’re not there, we’re getting better. It was a tough, tough fixture against a good side. We’ve come here and played very well, so I’m pleased with that.

“We’re still doing work in training about the right runs, the right balls. We need the instinct to kick in between people and that takes time and takes work but we are working at it.

“That might be hopefully the last bit of the jigsaw that when we get into that third, they see the run and where the ball has to go.”

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