Jacob Brown agreed the Luton players were to blame as they slumped to their six straight away defeat with a 4-2 reverse at Norwich City.
The forward scored his third of the season to draw the Hatters level at 2-2 just after half time, having gifted Ante Crnac a brace before the break after Elijah Adebayo’s opener.
But, restricting the Canaries to chances Town shot themselves in the foot in the final ten minutes as Emiliano Marcondes and the Championship’s top scorer Borja Sainz piled more misery on Luton.
It saw Hatters boss Rob Edwards break from his usual measured reactions, where he’s often taken the blame for poor performances and results, and firming point the finger at what he called “absolutely ridiculous” mistakes that keep happening.
Brown said:“We’re not going to hide away from the fact we’ve, we’ve not been good enough, especially away from home. And in all fairness to the gaffer, he always comes in and takes the stick, but I feel like today and probably not even just this week, it is on us and we’re the ones on the pitch making the errors.
“It’s not the gaffer’s fault. And he obviously gets a lot of the blame, which I don’t think is fair, because the gaffer can’t come on the pitch and make a clearance rather than miskicking it. He can’t track a runner. It’s us on the pitch. So, we need to stand up and be counted and take accountability.”
He added: “We did well to go to 1-0 up and then we gifted them two goals., did the exact same thing in the second half, so we can’t expect to get anything out of the game when we play like that. And you look at the travelling fans, it was sold out and, yeah, it’s not good enough.”
Last week alone, Town conceded seven on the road at Leeds and Norwich, and they have shipped 21 in nine games on the road, which is three more than the entirety of their 2022/23 promotion-winning campaign.
“It’s clearly something that we need to be better at,” Brown told the BBC, adding: “We need to be a bit more resilient, stop gifting silly goals. I know we say it a lot, but we kind of just have to work on improving that now.
“It’s obviously difficult because if a player makes a mistake he knows he’s made the mistake, but what can you do to kind of change that? You just have to not do it. But it’s easier said than done. But, just on that, it is us players that need to take the blame for that.”
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