Home Match Day Thread 21/01/25 - Championship: OUFC V Luton Town

[Carpy]

 

[Northstandboy]

Match Referee: Stephen Martin - STATS
Kassam Stadium
Tuesday 21st Jan 2025 @ 19:45 - OUTV

Ref watch

 

[billyturleyscurlywurly]

Saturday was Luton’s first clean sheet since November 23rd,

They limited Preston to 0 shots on target in the whole game.

Looking at the extended highlights, they utterly dominated the game. Jordan Clark being their key player.

This is going to be a lot harder than it looks on paper.

Kassam needs to be rocking as a win here would be huge. A point wouldn’t be a disaster if that happened.

Come on Oxford

 

[Littlemore Local]

3-0 Yellows
Fireworks and drums.

 

[chuckbert]

COYY

It’s mad to think that 15 years ago we beat them 2-0 at home in the conference in our promotion season, and they had another 4 years down there, yet we’re playing them now as a relegated PL club.

 

[Barbadosyellow]

I have a lot of respect for Luton as they've mirrored much of our own journey over the last 15 years. There's an edge to our games against them these days so it should be a cracker tomorrow. May the best team win. 2-0 U's.

 

[Berliner]

This ref lets a lot go, I can see some robust tackles from Helik flying in tonight.
I think we'll properly go for it, 2-0 to us.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Tough game, they'll be scrapping for their lives and they're at the start of their new manager bounce whilst ours has to end soon (but long may it continue).

A win would put some serious distance between us and the bottom three, this really is a six pointer.

Looking forward to it, should be a great atmosphere.

 

[Symp59]

Go for it ,let's get another Win and keep this run going. Same performance as Saturday please but ad wr all know football is a funny old game.

 

[Jster]

Final home night match of the season (unless Cov beat Ipswich in the FA Cup).

 

[West Oxon U’s]

 

[West Oxon U’s]

 

[Topper Haines]

Saturday was Luton’s first clean sheet since November 23rd,

They limited Preston to 0 shots on target in the whole game.

Looking at the extended highlights, they utterly dominated the game. Jordan Clark being their key player.

This is going to be a lot harder than it looks on paper.

Kassam needs to be rocking as a win here would be huge. A point wouldn’t be a disaster if that happened.

Come on Oxford

George Elek wasn't too complimentary about either side on The Dub but I agree this isn't going to be easy.

 

[trainingcone]

Hopefully the match will go ahead tonight. Very foggy here in Witney and Kidlington this morning. I remember the Ipswich home game with dense fog during the match

 

[Northstandboy]

Sounds like he will be fit!

 

[Northstandboy]

Hopefully the match will go ahead tonight. Very foggy here in Witney and Kidlington this morning. I remember the Ipswich home game with dense fog during the match

No fog in Cowley.

 

[TobyDavis34]

Tough game, they'll be scrapping for their lives and they're at the start of their new manager bounce whilst ours has to end soon (but long may it continue).

A win would put some serious distance between us and the bottom three, this really is a six pointer.

Looking forward to it, should be a great atmosphere.

It's all about that between now and the end of the season. Every game we come up against the "bottom sides" we need to be maximising.

 

[Joey]

3-0 Yellows
Fireworks and drums.

Who do you think will score the third?

 

[West Oxon U’s]

ConneXions:

Former Luton captain Brian Horton managed Oxford between 1988 and 1993.

Joe Kinnear was appointed Director of Football at Oxford in 2000 and managed Luton between 2001-2003.

Played for both:

Many have played for both the U’s and the Hatters over the years and includes Carlton Morris, Shandon Baptiste, Peter Kioso, Matt Ingram, Steve Foster,
Steve Basham, David Oldfield, Paul McLaren, Mark Stein, Darren Patterson, John Dreyer, Tom Craddock, Danny Hylton, Alan Judge, Chris Willmott, Phil Gray
and Johnny Mullins.

 

[Stranger]

No fog in Cowley.

One f in Oxford

 

[TobyDavis34]

Carlton Morris! Vaguely remember that loan spell. Here for half a season and scored one or two?

 

[Big Ron]

Carlton Morris! Vaguely remember that loan spell. Here for half a season and scored one or two?

Another one, like Sam Smith, where we loaned a young inexperienced player and dropped them straight in expecting an instant answer to our goal scoring problems.

 

[EastStandKieran]

Final home night match of the season (unless Cov beat Ipswich in the FA Cup).

We play QPR Wednesday 9th April

 

[Stanford yellow]

We play QPR Wednesday 9th April

Weird it's on a wednesday (few days before we play wednesday)

 

[ZeroTheHero]

May the best team win.

Absolutely not. I personally dislike Luton more than I dislike Swindon (it's a close run thing). Plastic pitches, away fans banned, thuggery off the pitch and sometimes on it. I really don't care who is the best team tonight as long as we win.

 

[Northstand Grandad]

Hopefully the match will go ahead tonight. Very foggy here in Witney and Kidlington this morning. I remember the Ipswich home game with dense fog during the match

Just got up...fog?...where?

 

[Tinman]

Hoping we take this very seriously. Luton are better than their position suggests I think, especially the strikers. Best not have the start that we did when playing at their place!

 

[Colin B]

Good ticket sales continued yesterday, and we're now at 9,390 excluding boxes, so with the away fans added in we're currently stood at approximately 11,200.

I'd expect another couple of hundred sales before kick off, at least, but wouldn't be surprised if some tickets become available in Block 9 of SSU, as this has been a feature this season on match days. We've already had extra tickets come on sale in the VIP Block 12, but those have all now sold.

I don't think the attendance will be much different to a normal Saturday 3pm game.

 

[Carpy]

I don't think the attendance will be much different to a normal Saturday 3pm game.

I've never checked but it always feels like the attendance is over 11k, regardless of opponent/day/time we play.

Edit: Just checked, only twice under 11k in the Championship and one of those was by 10 people!

 

[MarkG]

Unsurprisingly Luton linked with a move for Wycombe's striker Richard Kone

https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/sport/football/luton-town/hatters-chief-refuses-to-comment-on-any-speculation-linking-luton-with-wycombe-star-kone-4952202

 

[MarkG]

Luton have lost 11 in a row away across all competitions and I thought our away record was bad until we beat Millwall.
Let's hope they make it 12.

https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/sport/football/luton-town/bloomfield-not-paying-too-much-attention-to-lutons-dismal-away-form-4952331