Pilkington backs Poku to be a hit at Mansfield - Luton Town Hatters

Sponsored by

Pilkington backs Poku to be a hit at Mansfield

Midfielder Godfrey Poku has left Luton to join Mansfield

Published on 30/06/2012 12:00

FORMER Town midfielder Godfrey Poku has been backed to be a success at Mansfield by his new team-mate George Pilkington, writes Mike Simmonds.

The pair both signed for the Stags last week and Pilkington, who was Town’s captain, is confident Poku will shine at Field Mill.

He said: “Luton were blessed with a really good squad, so that’s why Godfrey went out on loan and did really well for himself.

“Towards the end of the season, he was coming into the side and then it was a shame he picked the injury up when he did really well.

“It meant he missed out on the business end of the season which would have been good for him.

“His future could have been so different had he been involved, but it’s a good move for him.

“It means he’ll be playing regular first team football. For any young lad, that’s what you need.

“You get that experience under your belt and I think he needs that to bring him on as a player.

“His work-rate is phenomenal, he’s decent on the ball, he just needs to learn the game a bit more and the only way of doing that is by playing matches.”

Mansfield are expected to be one of Town’s main challengers for promotion this season, but Pilkington thought the division was too close to call.

He added: “I think this season is the most open it has been for a long time. It’s hard to predict who’s going to run away with it this season.

“It’s very, very open and I’m sure Luton will be up there competing, if not leading the way, and hopefully Mansfield will be in and amongst the pack.”

For all the latest Luton Town FC news, reports, stats, player profiles, live match updates, prediction table and a complete fixture list, visit our Hatters Microsite.

Sport

Football

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Sponsored by
Pilkington backs Poku to be a hit at Mansfield

Top stories

Sport

Football