As Town head to Doncaster for Luton's final away game of the season, to face opposition currently chasing automatic promotion to the Championship, former Norwich City star Paul McVeigh is under no illusions of the task that lies ahead to get the Hatters back to that sort of level of competition.

Having been restricted to 14 league starts for Luton this year, with the majority of those coming since the turn of March, McVeigh has found himself in unfamiliar territory after his time at Carrow Road where he made over 200 appearances and he is grateful to be back amongst more familiar surroundings, on his preferred side of the white touchline.

The former Spurs trainee explained: "It has been nice to have a run in the side in recent weeks, I have never had a period in my career until this year where I haven't played regularly so it has been frustrating and I have had to adapt.

"It is very difficult to train all week and then not get a match at the weekend and I was desperate to get in the team at times a while ago so it is nice to be involved now. I am perhaps fortunate that I can play in a couple of positions and having played most matches on the wing, it was nice to get a run up front against Forest last week.

"I thought that we could have easily beaten them, perhaps by two or three goals given the chances that we created and instead we have gone down to a lucky goal - that sums up our season really. It was the same at Northampton a few weeks before, I feel we have dominated matches and demonstrated that we can play at this level but we have just been missing that little bit of luck at times."

So why have the Hatters, tipped by pundits and bookies at the start of the season to be chasing at least a play-off spot ended up slipping to their second consecutive relegation? The Northern Ireland international feels it is perhaps too easy to lay the blame solely at the door of the club's financial troubles and suggests he and his team-mates have to take that responsibility on the chin.

"Going into Administration has definitely had an impact on our season and that has been a contributing factor to our fortune because we ended up losing three or four good players as a result of it but no-one in the dressing room is going to use that as the only reason why we have been relegated," he confirmed. "Losing important players does affect you but even then, we know as a group of players we have underperformed and that is our biggest disappointment but the manager is keeping us on our toes and we want to put that right next season.

"The Manager has made it clear to everyone, whether they have a contract or not beyond this season that they are playing for their future at this football club and that has made us all sit up and take notice.

"We all know we are on trial as far as he is concerned; we appreciate that there still remains a good nucleus of a side here and with some fresh faces to hopefully come in the club will be able to build on that for next season and come back stronger."