Unhappy Henry apologises as he looks supporters squarely in the eye

Luton’s season sunk to a new low with the loss and Henry apologised for the performance as he admitted Luton’s disgruntled fans had every right to voice their disapproval.

He said: “They pay their money and I understand and that’s why I looked some of them in the eyes afterwards.

“I can quite honestly say I feel the lads are giving enough effort but the quality isn’t there at the moment and we know it in the changing room and we’ll put it right.

“It is a low point for me, but it doesn’t worry me. It makes me even more determined.

“I came here in the summer and said that we would win the league, I honestly thought we would, it hasn’t happened.

“We could still go up I don’t know. But I’m determined to turn this place round.

“Not by myself obviously, but with my team-mates and management. I only want to leave a club when it’s in a better position than when I first came here.

“I’ve still got a job to do and so have the other players and the management and we’ll go about it the right way and I’m sure we’ll get there.”

Boss John Still also took on board the supporters’ frustrations and conceded the dire second half showing was nowhere near good enough.

He said: “I would say that the level of performance wasn’t an acceptable level of performance and if I was a supporter I’d probably have the hump as well.

“Some are disgruntled, some just walk out, some shout and holla. I don’t have any problems with that, I really don’t.

“There’s an expectation at the club, whether it’s right or wrong is not down to me.

“But if there’s an expectation amongst the supporters for the players to perform to an acceptable I fully understand that and today the players didn’t perform to an acceptable level, so I’ve got no complaints with that.”

Henry voiced his frustrations at some of his team-mates during the second half, but believes that they too should be sharing the burden of leadership.

“I know I’m captain but it doesn’t just come from me, it has to come from all the other players. I only wear the armband,” he said.

“I tell them what I want to say to them and that’s it. They listen, but everyone should be captains, it shouldn’t just be myself.

“We should all tell each other when its wrong and rightly so and tell each other when we’ve done something good because that’s what a team is.”

And with plenty of experienced heads in the side he found it difficult to explain their abject showing.

He continued: “There’s plenty of experienced players out there with people like myself and (Steve) McNulty and (Mark) Tyler.

“I can keep going through the team and there’s some young ones out there and they’re all good players.

“We’re trying to work on the training ground how the new gaffer wants us to play, it’s a different way, but it’s not going to happen overnight.

“We need to stick together as group and get on the training ground again and work at it and work at it, and work at it and keeping going. I can only apologise to the fans that weren’t happy because I understand.”

After a huddle at the end the players trudged from the field amid angry scenes and Henry confirmed the players got their point.

He added: “That’s the way the gaffer is, he keeps us in the huddle no matter what. We take the wins, the draws and the losses all kind of level pegging, we don’t get too above ourselves and we don’t get too low.

“He keeps us all together as a team, he wants us to be a team and we are close in that changing room.

“The fans waited around for us to say what they wanted to say, they got their point across.

“Some of the young lads, it may effect them, but it’s football. They have to deal with it. I know I can deal with it and I’ll come out here fighting the next time we have a home game.

“So they can say what they want, they pay their money at the end of the day and I’m sure the young lads around here will take it on board and do better next time.”