Bradley confident Town squad will quickly understand Jones' methods

Town captain Sonny Bradley doesn’t think it will be a problem re-learning the ways of new manager Nathan Jones in time for the season’s restart next weekend.

The centre half is one of a host of players actually signed by Jones during his three-year stint as manager of the club prior to leaving for Stoke City in January 2019.

He is now back charged with trying to avoid an immediate return to a division that Luton won last year in just nine games, after the campaign begins again at home to Preston North End, following its postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Bradley said: “It would be a lot more difficult if we brought in a manager that we didn’t know, who all of a sudden wanted to impose his own style.

"That would be extremely difficult, almost impossible, I believe, to pick that up in two or three weeks, especially when the training regime was not full contact.

“I think if Nathan wasn’t available we would have gone on ahead with Mick (Harford), because Mick’s been there since I came to the club and Mick would certainly know what to do with these boys.

“With Nathan coming in there are 15 or 16 boys who already know the way he wants to work.

“It’s up to the rest of the boys that have been signed this season, who need to understand the way that Nathan wants to play.

“I think all the time that Nathan is showing them, and we have senior boys also helping them out as well, it shouldn’t take long at all.

“I know how Nathan works and he doesn’t want to carry anybody, he won’t carry anybody.

"We don’t have time for that, we don’t have room for that.

"If somebody is not onboard with what we’re doing, simply, they won’t be a part of what we want to do.

"So, it’s important that we do hit the ground sprinting, Gary’s (Sweet) right, and Nathan can provide that for us.”