UPDATED: Luton v Tamworth in the balance?

It’s business as usual for Hatters boss John Still despite the torrential rain potentially endangering yet another fixture when Tamworth visit Kenilworth Road on Saturday, writes Mark Wood.

With more heavy rain expected today and before Saturday’s game the Lambs fixture could be in danger of being postponed with the pitch already ‘wet’ according to Still.

But until told otherwise he’s readying his squad as normal for the weekend’s fixture.

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Still said: “It will be very heavy at the moment, but you know what, I don’t even think about it, I don’t worry about it, I’m just going to go and train today, train tomorrow, and when the person tells me that the pitch is good or the pitch is bad and decide to tell me about it, then I’ll worry about it. I’m just planning for what’s coming up.

“You can’t do anything. Moaning about it and getting the hump about it is wasting energy.

“We’ll just concentrate on what we can do and wait for the weather to brighten up and we’ll have to go again.”

The weather has already caused a number of games to be called off this season and Still is keen for the game to go ahead, although not to the long-term detriment of the pitch.

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He said: “I think every now and again, through a variety of reasons, a game being off, you might go ‘that’s not bad’, but even with that I think when you’re involved in football, I call it a Saturday sport.

“I know you play midweek, but you can get by without playing midweek, but it’s tough when you don’t play on Saturday, it really is tough.

“But what can we do? The weather’s been absolutely atrocious. I think even when you see games that go ahead on TV, there was Peterborough on last night, the pitch was shocking.

“Sometimes you’re pushed to get a game on, a little bit like our Barnet game if you like, and it ruins the pitch then and you’ve got a problem longer term.

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“I think if the game against Barnet had been off, I think we might have got one or two games on that have been off, that type of thing.

“But what can you do? You can’t do anything about it, we’ve just got to get on with it. It’s not ideal, but it’s no ideal for everybody.”

Still is currently comfortable with the number of games Luton have in the run-in until the end of the season, but he is wary that Town’s fixture list shouldn’t become too congested.

He added: “I’ve always been comfortable playing Saturday and Tuesday. We haven’t got Saturday/Tuesday, Saturday/Tuesday, Saturday/Tuesday, Saturday/Tuesday - there’s some break in-between.

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“I’m quite comfortable with that, I think particularly with the break we had, going into that can be a little bit of a plus as long as you’re not doing it every week.

“I think if you do too many Saturday/Tuesdays you start to lose just a little bit in training, a little bit of organisational work you need to do in training.

“If you play on a Saturday you can’t do too much on a Monday, you play Tuesday, you normally have a warm-down day on Wednesday, you come in Thursday and you can’t do too much because you’ve got the game Saturday and it becomes a bit heavy.

“But when there’s a little break I’m quite comfortable with that to be honest.”

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