Impassioned boss pleads with fans to help see them home

With promotion, both automatic and through the play-offs, still a real possibility and the Hatters just one game away from Wembley in the FA Trophy the Town boss has appealed to fans to give them their unwavering loyalty and vocal support from here on in.

In a specially arranged gathering today, Money and his management team of Gary Brabin, Alan Neilson and Dmitri Kharine, plus managing director Gary Sweet formed a united front as Town look to finish off a potentially hugely successful season in in style.

And Money has pleaded with the supporters to help them make it a reality, saying: “Something that we’ve all thought long and hard about is there’s an enemy that we need to be very mindful of at this moment in time.

“It’s not Crawley or the FA, it’s something called fear. The fear of failure.

“Tomorrow we play with an opportunity to go to Wembley in a cup final.

“Next Tuesday we embark on the last 12 games of a potential promotion campaign.

“At the start of the season we had three opportunities to be successful.

“Gain promotion, gain promotion as champions and win the Trophy. These are still all possible.

“It’s a period to be enjoyed. It’s a period to accept the opportunity and challenge.

“What we’ve got to try and do is make sure everybody understands is what we need both on and off the pitch from now until the end of the season.

“We haven’t failed. We have everything to play for. It’s a two-month period you don’t get very often. A chance to win a trophy and a chance to get promotion.

“We need huge support from the terrace. Everyone who was at Mansfield on Sunday and Cambridge on Tuesday saw what I mean. The support and atmosphere those supporters generated, with less than half of what we get, was fantastic. And it enabled them to get a result.

“We go to Bath and they set fireworks off. We go to Newport and Cambridge and they celebrate and cheer to get a point off Luton.

“The numbers we receive at home games is incredible. We need them on our side, we need them to be our 12th man and they are crucial.

“I realise that there’s a lot happened to this football club in its recent history.

“Everyone in the next two months have to throw away their negativity to the FA, throw away their anger at Crawley because there’s nothing they can do about them and their criticism of me or anyone else in the organisation because the only thing that matter is the 11 on the pitch.”

“Embrace and the enjoy the opportunity there is in front of us because it is an opportunity.

“We as a football team and as a management group will do all we can to these objectives happen.

“We thank them for their attendance and the money they’ve spent. They are brilliant.

“We need them to sing, to cheer, to make an atmosphere.

“We need them to make the players feel loved and to feel important.

“It’s our job to make sure we give those 11 players the right amount of support to achieve.

“I’m asking a real impassioned plea for the supporters to help drive us over the line. We need their help.”

For more see Wednesday’s Luton News / Dunstable Gazette.