Captain Carlton Morris stressed the importance of the whole football club sticking together to turn the Hatters’ disappointing start to the season around.
The Town saw a first-half lead turned around by two QPR goals in three second half minutes in front of the Sky cameras at Kenilworth Road on Friday night.
It was a third defeat of the campaign from the opening four matches, and our striker said afterwards: “It was a similar story to the previous games at the minute.
“It was a lot of bark, but ultimately we understand that we are not ruthless enough at both ends, in the attacking unit and the defensive unit.
“We understand that as a team and it is just something we have got to put right. It’s important now that we stick together, as a team, as a football club, and ride this storm, because ultimately the effort’s there, and it’s always going to be there, and it will turn."
Asked about the mood in the dressing room, Carlton went on: “Obviously the lads are incredibly down. We have come from the high of being in the Premier League last season, and then the excitement of starting this campaign in the Championship looking to win a lot of games and have a lot of success.
“Unfortunately, that’s not how life works sometimes. This is a brutal and very demanding league and I think we just need to dig deep and find an extra bit of fight that we can take forward.
“We lost a lot of games last season and like winning’s a habit, losing can become a habit as well. We just need to break that with a ruthless edge and that’s something that we are going to really focus on going home.
“The lads are hurting. It’s killing them in there because they care about winning games, they care about this football club, and they care about the fans.
“Ultimately we are not doing enough at the moment, but we know that we’ve got more to give and it’ll be there on show. We’ve got two big weeks now to prepare for our next fixture.”
The 29-year-old former Norwich and Barnsley man has every faith in his team-mates to kick-start the campaign when we resume with a trip to Millwall on September 14th.
“One hundred per cent,” he added, “I look around that changing room and I have a lot of faith in what I see, not just as football players but as characters as well. I know that we are going to ride this storm and we are going to come out of it.
“It’s not always smooth sailing at this football club, as we all know, so it’s just important that we stick together through this time. No blame culture, nothing like that, and we just dig deep and find our way out of it.”
On whether the international break has come at a good time, he replied: “Yes, I think so. It gives us time to regroup, let the dust settle, analyse – and the staff have been unbelievable since I’ve been at this football club. They are doing their due diligence, we’ll get to the bottom of this and we’ll come to the right solution and come out of it.”
