‘Raging’ Rob Edwards explains why he didn’t apologise to fans after Luton lose 4-2 at Norwich

A ‘raging’ Rob Edwards explains why he didn’t go over and apologise to fans after Luton Town lose 4-2 away at Norwich City on Saturday.

Ante Crnac was instrumental in Norwich’s win, netting twice and providing an assist, with Luton continuing their poor run of form away from home.

Elijah Adebayo jumped on a misplayed back pass from Anis Slimane to give Luton an early lead, however, Crnac responded with two goals in quick succession.

Luton managed to go level when Norwich failed to clear a corner taken by Shandon Baptiste, allowing Jacob Brown to find the net.

But the hosts went three up thanks to Emiliano Marcondes, followed by Borja Sainz, who scored the fourth, sealing Luton’s sixth consecutive away defeat.

With this victory, Norwich jump to ninth in the Championship table, achieving back-to-back league wins for only the second time this season, but for Luton, they fall to 19th, suffering their 10th league defeat and remaining just three points above the drop zone.

The boss’ thoughts. pic.twitter.com/0GvXSx9qzY

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Full time scenes at Norwich, lots of mixed reactions once again, more boo’s for the players than Rob today.

Where do we go from here?#LutonTown pic.twitter.com/9WfIFfMVIC

— DeggyUK (@DeggyUK) November 30, 2024

“I didn’t go over there and apologize today because that’s not on me. Today, there’s individual errors that have cost us four goals. It’s absolutely ridiculous. I’m raging about it”

Luton Town boss Rob Edwards after the 4-2 away loss to Norwich.@SimonOxley9 @dicko1886 #LTFC

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Interviewer: You must have thought you might get something out of this.

RE: Yeah. At at 1-0 up and at 2-2 I felt that we were, you know, they I know they’re gonna have some of the ball, but I thought we were really good. I thought we were really good. Today, individual errors have cost us. I’m not I’m not coming out of it and go over there and apologise today because that’s not on me at today. There’s individual errors that have cost us 4 goals. It’s absolutely ridiculous. I’m raging about it. Supporters should be as well. People have gotta fix it quickly, otherwise they won’t play. But too many times it’s happened. But today, it was so so evident. The plan was good. There was a good performance there. We should have come away actually winning the game, you know, but we’ve made 4 massive errors individually, and, and it’s cost us a game of football again.

Interviewer: You did seem, I have to say, when you came back over this side after going over to the fans, a little bit, we sort of shrugged at the shoulders a little bit, bemused at the reaction?

RE: No, not the reaction. The reaction was good. I mean, the majority of the fans are with us. But if the ones are angry, fine. They’re right to be angry. I’m flipping angry as well. What what what might expect? What do we expect? We’ve just lost the game 4 to chucked it away. So no. I you know, the reaction was good. Exactly to be as expected. The ones that are angry, they’re right to be. The ones that are there clapping in support, thank you, but they they won’t be happy either. But I’ll go over there and I’ll acknowledge them as I always do. And, but I’m not taking all of that today. I’m not going over there and apologising for it because some people there, some of those individuals in there have cost us.

Interviewer: Yeah. So the shrug of the shoulders is about the you know, what you’re seeing on the pitch.

RE: Yeah.

Interviewer: I mean, there was a catalog of errors from both sides in the first half, but unfortunately, more from those in white.

RE: Yeah. The 2 goals are really avoidable. I mean, the amount of time we had a chance to clear it for the 1st goal, and then, obviously, we have a blatant chance to clear it for the 2nd goal as well. It’s just, yeah, it’s head scratching stuff.

Interviewer: But the second half, just a few tweaks here and there with, Victor Moses coming on, kept Stacey quiet…

RE: And, we needed to yeah. We were, even though I’m right here in front of it, we weren’t quite able to to lock down this left hand side at times, their right. Just trying to get narrow and Amari then take the wide one, just get that information to Victor. And we did that in the second half, and, and he made a good impact. But, you know, yeah, still wasn’t enough to to get something from the game.

Interviewer: No. Because you’d settled quite well in that second half without perhaps creating too much for the possession that you that you had, but you were not conceding anything either.

RE: We created as many big chances as they did today. You know? They’d have 6 shots, 4 and 4 goals, and I’m 6 shots. I’m 6 shots on target, 4 goals. We created a lot of big chances today. You know, we did we actually did on the other night as well, didn’t we? But not taking enough and obviously not keeping out of the run.

Interviewer: Well, obviously, the defensive stats, that 20 goals, I think, in the last in those 6 defeats. You know, it’s clear where the the issues are.

RE: It’s not good enough. And today wasn’t a team thing. I think that was really clear. The plan was it was good. We were aggressive, but kept a plus one on the back line as well for the majority of times. There was a solidity there. It’s you can see how we conceded the goals. It wasn’t a team thing. That was individual thing.

Interviewer: 2 home games to where it has been, you know, you’ve been getting the points.

RE: Yeah.

Interviewer: But it puts pressure on those games because of not getting them on the road…

RE: There’s always pressure on us, but we’ve gotta we’ve gotta stand up, we’ve gotta dig in, and we’ve gotta make sure we show show the fight that we have done at home. I know we did for the majority of the game here, you know.

Interviewer: Substitutions, oh, they’re they’re subs perhaps made more of a difference than than ours.

RE: They’ve got some good players.

Interviewer: But you, I don’t know, I mean, it’s not a Middlesbrough situation by any stretch of the imagination.

RE: No, that day, I thought it was a bit of a capitulation, and I felt really low. I don’t feel like that after you know, since I haven’t re-energised myself, and I’m ready to fight and ready to dig in. But I need everyone and every one of those players to do that with me as well.

This is what the Twitter users had to say as a ‘raging’ Rob Edwards explains why he didn’t apologise to fans after Luton lose 4-2 at Norwich…

@LTFCsmithy:
Whilst I partly sympathise;
-Repeatedly putting Chong at LWB. He’s not one.
-Persisting with Woodrow who offers nothing as his first attempt at impact.
-Persisting with square pegs in round holes in a 5-2-3 when our midfield always gets overrun.
On him.

@GrantTheHatter: It’s still his starting line up and formation …

@Jjacko_1: He’s spot on. The players were to blame for that

@ChemicalsChris: He clearly wasn’t at Carrow Road if he thought you should have won that game

@callumLtfc: he’s out of his depth.

@Nathanltfc1: Get him gone ffs. No one at the club respects him

@R_JLife: I’ve defended Rob but I hate this interview. Putting it on individual players and intentionally distancing the team ethos/absolving himself of any responsibility. The introspection has pushed him too far the other way

@LoyalHatterD: I’m glad Edwards is now digging the players out! But wish he had done it earlier as they have been making the same mistakes far too often!

@DanPaulHudson: Best interview he’s given

@Robison35032341: Whatever you think of him, he’s not wrong about the goals conceded

@_TeamsLikeLuton: This is the exact reaction we need from Rob sick of him blaming himself.

@lutonedh: He’s not wrong some of defending for first two goals especially is national league level

@Atexo02: Yeah he’s lost the dressing room and he’s sick of sticking up for them. Cut your losses now, 2020

@Jjacko_1: He’s spot on. Professional players cannot make them mistakes, let alone every week.
Slag RE off all you want, but today he got the plan right in the main, at 2-2 we looked by far the better side. Individual poor errors cost us, and have probably cost him his job.

@ZionistVaughn: Spot on Rob. He deserves way better than what these players are giving him. Too many big players not putting a shift in and way too lightweight. They were happy to give it their all on the ‘big stage’ last season but got no bottle for a Championship fight. This is on the players

@churchychurch14: Same mistakes every week, who takes the blame for that????

@glenmaxwell76: Players have to take blame but what about his poor tactics and playing players out position. Chong not a wing back and wasted and Moses been wasted since he been signed

@ltfc77: Playing Chong at LWB was a disaster, and cost us a goal. You can blame the players but RE cost us that goal.

@PaulSparks1964: Just an annoyed Rob Edwards saying the same things he has been saying week in week out for about a year using coach speak….‘make better decisions’, ‘be better in the moments’. I will always like the guy, think of him fondly, but he has to go… surely?