Gas v Hatter's match day thread courtesy of BG.

Yeah I like the defensive screen in front of the back four but if you’ve got three defensive midfielders there then you’ve got to have Sinclair .
He will come out and close a player down and win the ball, our current midfield three sit deep and play passes through them too often.
Sincs will tear around winning the ball and he never gives the ball away.
If we stick with the Olly , ogogo upson screen next game then fair enough it has kind of worked but drop sercombe and play Sinclair as an attacking midfielder .
DC did it a few times and he was brilliant there.
Gateshead in non league , Swindon and MK dons both times more recently.
He also gave Chelsea’s defensive midfielders a sh** time in an attacking battling role pressing them .
Clarke Harris would have loved that kind of support today instead he had Sercombe who appears to have his head well and truly up his arse and offering pretty much f**k all all season.

Spot on Huddy. I think Luton were just better at playing the diamond purely because they have attacking full-backs and a creative playmaker in the hole. I think when THD is back and if we can upgrade RB (James Clarke is always a solid 7/10 and an excellent squad player at worse) then it'll suit us to the core. 

I think a draw wouldn't have been too undeserved based on how we grew into the game/second half but they were definitely the better team and you can see why they're going up. Good for them, too. 

I hereby tender my resignation from the match day thread.
I tried my hardest today but badly let down by a totally ineffective midfield, what Sercombe and Ollie Clarke we're up to today is beyond me.
Ogogo was acceptable and Upson was the best of the midfield today in my book.
Let's hope we can get enough points to survive and then hopefully GC can bring in a commanding experienced centrehalf to replace Craig and play alongside Kilgour with Lockyer off to pastures new. In addition a couple of creative midfielders and a striker to play alongside JCH, will do nicely.

Exactly what GHB predicted after ten minutes and as we all saw it came to pass.
Thought the referee was very poor and definately favoured the league leaders.

Rovers fan bingo near us includes:

“FOR *S SAKE”
“Bloody rubbish Ollie”
“That’s it, *ing pass it back again”

And a personal favourite....

“Someone bloody chase it down!”
(When a pass has sailed through to the opppsing keeper with no Rovers shirt within 40 yards of the ball)

To be honest it was no better when I stood on the West terrace for years. There are certainly some special breeds who roam the Memorial Stadium, that’s for sure.

Without a doubt he has been, as for Ollie Clarke and Sercombe, it's anybody's guess what they have been trying to do. Today in my opinion they both managed to put in totally disinterested performances and it was only Upson and Ogogo that managed to stop our midfield from being totally overrun.

The East Terrace was on fine form today, at one point Ollie Clarke mislaid a pass to which a bloke the row behind starts yelling "One goal in 70 Nichols, you're ****". When I pointed out to him that was Ollie Clarke, his response was "Well I'll let him off that one, he's been our best player today". I'm mystified by the match some people watch. That being said I thought Tom had a poor game up front today, not helped by a referee ignored elbows, headlocks and shirt pulling so bad it would make a Sunday league game blush. That being said though Ollie Clarke and Sercombe were dire today. After 10 minutes it was obvious that Luton's fullbacks were going to push forward and work the overlap and yet we didn't manage to figure that out ourselves until we were 2-0 down.

Still got to witness one of the best team goals we've scored this season and Ed Upson is starting to show the class he's often showed against us.

I think Luton are the prototype of what Graham probably wants to play next season. Organised diamond in the midfield with two quick full backs who can overlap and whip balls in.

Yeah some on here implode but I think most of us can see that Cogs is getting the best out of an average squad and the fact that we’ve won more than we’ve lost under him proves that.
We’re always going to have a meltdown on here after a defeat on here no matter what the circumstances are.
We were going in to free fall before he took over and now every game I think it’s 50/50 and to be fair Cogs has even got this team punching above that.

We’ve won more than we’ve lost since he’s taken over and if we can take that in to the last six games then we stay up.
It’s as simple as that.
If we achieve that then he’s massively succeeded and if we don’t then he’s failed but there’s no doubt about it in my mind we’ve been much better this season since Graham Coughlan has been our manager.

No disrespect meant to DC who is a legend in my eyes but the change needed to be made and probably should have been made sooner and if it had only been 3-4 weeks sooner we wouldn’t be looking over our shoulder now because this squad shouldn’t be getting relegated.
UTG.

And another today.
Get lines in for a game in that position although he probably won’t be able to play the full 90.
Then bring on sercombe for last 20 -30 minutes for lines and see the difference in Sercs.
Some players get a bit ahead of themselves and think once they’ve had a good season there’s nothing to prove.
From looking at sercombes history with oxford and now us there’s a pattern forming.
Coughlan seems the sort to weed those types out.
I think it’s time to call out sercombe.