Luton striker admits Town’s embarrassed players have to take the blame for horrendous away form.
Luton striker Jacob Brown admitted that Town’s players have to take the blame for horrendous run of form on the road this season, and not manager Rob Edwards, after they lost a sixth successive game when being beaten 4-2 by Norwich City on Saturday.
Having gone ahead in the first half through Elijah Adebayo’s cool finish, the Hatters were then behind by the break, Ante Crnac taking advantage of some absolutely woeful defending to find the net twice. Brown himself then put the visitors back in front just after the break, but in the final 10 minutes, Luton’s back-line fell apart again as Emiliano Marcondes and Borja Sainz both pounced on further defensive failings to find the net and claim all three points for the Canaries.
It saw manager Edwards refuse to take responsibility for the outcome, preferring to lay that firmly at the door of his players on the afternoon, which was something Brown concurred with when he faced the press afterwards, saying: “We’re not going to hide away from the fact that we’ve not been good enough, especially away from home. In all fairness to the gaffer, he always comes and takes the stick, but I feel like today and probably not even just this week it is on us.
“We’re the ones on the pitch making the errors, it’s not the gaffer’s fault. He obviously gets a lot of the blame which I don’t think is fair, as the gaffer can’t come on the pitch and make a clearance rather than miskicking it, he can’t track a runner, it’s us on the pitch. We need to stand up and be counted, take accountability. It’s obviously difficult as if a player makes a mistake, he knows he’s made a mistake, but what can you do to try and change that, you just have to not do it.
