Town chief Still admits Hatters are behind schedule as he looks set to keep faith with his stars

The Hatters have had a massively tricky run of fixtures, but have only picked up 10 points in their opening eight games, their lowest return since dropping into the Conference.

Still said: “I don’t really look at anything until eight, 10 games, and we’re there now.

“I had a points total in my head on a group of games, which is what I tend to do, look at groups of games, we’re behind that. Not a million miles behind it, but behind it.

“I’ve analysed all of our performances, I analysed every performance and then I put that away.

“And then when I look at the group of games I look back at it and analyse where we were and where we are.

“And up until Friday I’ve got to say I had been really pleased with how we were playing.

“Were we winning enough games? No. But were we playing well enough, yes. But Friday we didn’t.”

And Still looks set to shun any major changes to his side for tonight’s game against Dartford after Friday’s night’s disappointing 2-0 defeat at Wrexham.

He admitted he might be tempted to make a couple of changes, but is preferring to judge his players over the course of the last few games, rather than on a one-off.

Still continued: “It’s whether I take the last five games and say well one of them’s not very good, so I need to change.

“That’s not something that I’m sure I want to do. We never played well on Friday, but we have played well and I’m not sure that just changing things is the right thing to do.

“I’m not saying I won’t make a change or two, but not necessarily to do with Friday.

“It’s like if someone’s put in four decent performances, or five decent performances, and has an off day, I’m not sure that’s a reason not to play them.

“I think it’s a reason to remind them of the standards they need to set. So a little bit of food for through really.”

Still mulled over Luton’s defeat at the weekend and is already once again looking to the future.

“Normally within 24 hours I’m past anything good or bad anyway,” he said. “I think the thing you get on an away game, particular when it’s a fair distance, you get a lot of thinking time on the way home.

“I gave the game a lot of thought on the way home, got home, watched the first 30 minutes of the game, and watched the whole game the following day.

“So by Saturday afternoon I had digested the performance, and was back to where I would expect to be, not looking back, looking forwards.”

Friday night’s defeat unarguably puts even great pressure on the Hatters to beat the Darts tonight, who shocked them 2-0 at Kenilworth Road last season.

But Still was philosophical over whether tonight’s game was any more important, adding: “Name one that isn’t! How do you look at it? Glass half empty, glass half full?

“We don’t win Tuesday and then we win the next 10? We win Tuesday and don’t win the next five? They’re all important.

“Tuesday’s important. Is it any more important than last week? No. Is it going to be any more important than next week? No. Because they’re all important.”