Nathan Jones makes Barnsley claim as Luton Town gear up for next season in the Championship

Luton Town have had a brilliant season this year making it to the play-offs. 

The Hatters were unlucky to lose against Huddersfield Town in the semi-finals and now they are looking towards another season in the Championship, but will be hoping that they can build upon what they’ve done this season and push up the league.

However, this is not a given. One only has to look at Barnsley to see how a missed promotion opportunity can turn out.

After staying up on the final day in the 2019/20 season, the Tykes then went on to have a great campaign making it to the play-offs being beaten by Swansea in the play-offs.

However, this season they have struggled again and found themselves relegated to League One after finishing at the bottom of the table.

However, Hatters boss Nathan Jones has insisted his side will not follow this pattern as he told Luton Today: “With the greatest of respect, that’s not going to happen to us.

“We want to be better next year, we want to evolve again next year, not go categorically backwards.

“Whatever that was, maybe because Barnsley lost a manager that changed drastically their formation or style of play, I don’t know.

“That’s not going to happen at this football club.”

Thankfully for Luton, the trend since Jones has been with Luton backs them to do well as they have improved year on year and Jones was keen to look back on their progress as he said: “We’ve evolved every year that we’ve been here.

“When we got to the play-off semi-final in League Two, we set a goal of automatic promotion the next year, because it was logical.

“If you finish fourth, get to the play-offs, and narrowly miss out and think, right, if we do good work, continue that and develop and recruit better, then you should achieve