How much longer will he be at the sc*m - from the sporting life! :]] :]] :]] :]] Angry Luton manager Mike Newell laid the blame for his club's plight firmly at the feet of the club's board following the 2-1 defeat against Hull. Luton slumped to second from bottom in the Coca-Cola Championship and are looking like a team destined for the drop following a fifth straight reverse. Newell has had Rowan Vine, Kevin Nicholls, Carlos Edwards and Steve Howard sold from under him this term - as well as Curtis Davies last summer - and been forced to replace them with youngsters. And he echoed the sentiments of the home faithful who chanted "where's the money gone?" at the club's board. "Where's the £9million gone?" blasted Newell. "Give that to me and I'll get five experienced players in, I'll pay them fortunes and we'll get ourselves out of it. "It takes three or four years to build a reputation as a decent manager and three months to lose that reputation. But if you take the four best players out of any team it will hurt them. "Give me the money and I'll replace them - but I can't. The reason we're in this position is because we've sold our best players. Someone should investigate what's going on at this club." David Livermore and Michael Turner did the damage at Kenilworth Road as Hull's survival bid gathered pace. Livermore, only in the starting line-up after John Welsh broke a leg on Saturday, struck in the 21st minute for his fourth goal of the season and centre-half Turner hit a stunning centre-forward's volley as Hull grabbed a second successive win to move three points clear of the drop zone. Newell also lost goalkeeper Marlon Beresford to a head injury to cap an unhappy night. Drew Talbot pulled one back for Luton but Newell admits they are low on confidence with just eight games to save themselves. "You get confidence from winning games and we need to do that, to start scoring goals and winning some games. We can't rely on other teams to do us favours with eight games to go," he added. "To be booed off at half-time when you're inexperienced isn't going to give them much confidence for the second half." Hull's revival under Phil Brown continues to gather pace following a second successive win, but the Tigers boss is not resting on his laurels just yet. "It's not about our position now, it's about the end of the season and 41 points is not going to be enough," he said. "But we're in some good form at the moment and we can go to Sunderland next week with a little less fear. "We came with a game plan and played to it until we went two up and then it went out of the window. So the lesson is to stick to the game plan for 90 minutes, and now for the last eight games. "Michael Turner has gone up front before but usually for his aerial ability, yet he hit that volley as sweet as a nut."
