Buckle backing for Shaw and Henry

Hatters boss Paul Buckle has backed his marquee summer signings to come good after captain Ronnie Henry and target man Jon Shaw both made way on Tuesday night as Town fought back from a goal down to win 2-1 at Tamworth, writes Mark Wood.

The pair were sacrificed as part of a triple change that saw misfiring Luton make an impressive recovery at the Lamb.

Henry was also withdrawn during Friday night’s 4-1 defeat at Grimsby and Buckle said: “It’s early days, I’m not disappointed in any of my players.

“It doesn’t matter who comes off. Whether it’s my skipper, Jon Shaw, whatever, they will get up and running.

“It’s early days in a Luton shirt for a lot of my boys at the moment.

“Don’t worry they will be up and running.

“It’s a team thing, it’s a squad thing, we are in it together.

“It’s nasty when you lose, it wasn’t a great feeling Friday night, but I’m not going to be singing from the rooftops now.

“We’ve won and we’re very happy. In-house we close ranks because a lot of people don’t want us to do well.

“Everyone is after us, we are a scalp and all the rest of it.

Buckle did admit that sacrificing two of his biggest summer signings hadn’t been part of the gameplan prior to the match though.

He added: “Before the game I always have a couple of plans.

“You need a contingency for winning or drawing or losing, I feel that’s how I like to work.

“I didn’t have that one, I thought about that one at half time.

“I gave myself five minutes to have a think and think about how we could, if it was to stay at 1-0, and our confidence levels wouldn’t have been great, to go for that.

“I felt it would be a good balance and it paid off. Stuart (Fleetwood) came on and in the end we could have had a few more.

“It’s not about whether I take my captain off.

“I’m not interested in who comes off, we’re a team, we’re a squad, we’ve got togetherness

“My two full-backs going off and Jon Shaw wasn’t the plan but that’s what happens.

“When you are trying to get out of this division you have to go to extreme measures and that was needed.”