Hatters chief: We're not too proud to use Harry Cornick's long throw

Luton boss Nathan Jones insisted he wasn’t ‘too proud’ to utilise Harry Cornick’s long throw in a bid to up the Hatters’ means of increasing their goalscoring tally this season.

In recent weeks the 25-year-old has often gone over to the touch-line to launch a delivery into the box, not quite Rory Delap-style, but to certainly give Town a far more direct route into the opposition's penalty area than they used previously.

Although Cornick has been at the club for over three years now, it’s only in the last few matches Luton have used his throwing ability on a more consistent basis, and it worked a treat on Saturday at St Andrew’s.

Once the ball had left the former Bournemouth winger's hands, Sonny Bradley competed with a Birmingham defender, with James Collins seeing his close range effort saved by keeper Neil Etheridge and Dan Potts on hand to head into an empty net for what turned out to be the winner.

Speaking about the tactic, Jones said: “We’re not too proud to do that.

"We’ve always had enough in our armoury to score comfortably but when you are at Championship level, it’s a real test week-in, week-out and we have to find ways to win games and get goals.

“We’re not too proud because we are going to come up against a side tomorrow (Cardiff) that has a massive long throw.

“We come up against Brentford who are one of the most fluent footballing sides in the division who use a long throw so we’re not too proud, but if it gives us an opportunity to create chances and create a bit of momentum, then we are going to use that.

Potts, who was the beneficiary of the long throw at the weekend, left unmarked to open his account for the season, said of the new method of attack: "It’s a strange one really, we just never really utilised it or used it.

"I don’t think Harry believed it was as long as it is, which was odd, but there’s enough of us there to make something happen.

"We come up against enough teams that do it to us, especially at this level as well, so why not have it? It’s another string to our bow."

Luton are incredibly well drilled on set-pieces, with a large proportion of their goals coming from deadball situations and Jones admitted that Cornick's delivery is something they work on in training.

He said: "We have set play sessions where we work on it.

"Nothing is off the cuff, set-plays are regimented, our patterns of play, how we defend, how we press, all of those things are worked on.

"You can't tell how you are going to score because it’s not like a corner where you put it in and people get in front of people and score.

"With a long throw it is usually the second ball where people score and that is what happened."