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Re: Lunchtime Debate: Who are our rivals?

By ChudsYesterday 13:11Yesterday at 13:11:56In response to Re: Lunchtime Debate: Who are our rivals?

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I already answered that, if we play them regularly and meaningfully. Which we haven't yet done so. Playing them a couple of seasons every decade is not conducive to forming a rivalry, unless you already have a long historic rivalry against them, and so that is a refreshing of it. They have spent far too much of our existence as a club well above us, and played us far too infrequently in league games to have formed any rivalry for me. Playing them this season and maybe next isn't enough to change that. Give it five or so years and maybe we might be getting somewhere. Wycombe or Northampton are far more of a rivalry than Luton.

And as I said, I wouldn't relish in finishing above them any more than finishing above anybody else in the league (Orient aside), because I have no bad view against them and don't view them as a rival. They are just another team we are playing. And I have no view like you have about it as a place either, same as I have no view of Dunstable or any other local town I have hardly ever been to. Maybe that is because I have grown up and lived in Bedfordshire my whole life, bar a few years in Bristol, and would be different had I lived in Stevenage.

Edited by Chuds at 13:15:04 on 18th August 2025