I always love this time of the year, Christmas is approaching, the evenings are dark and there is a real feeling the football season is firmly underway.

Is there a better feeling than football under the lights, at Kenilworth Road?

Okay, balmy summer afternoons may suite some but, to me, it is the smells of the evening spectacle that make the difference, the smell of embrocation drifting onto the terraces, the smell of fried onions hanging in the air and the floodlights illuminating the playing area.

I can't help wondering if those two special aroma's will be lost when we, eventually, make the move to Power Court.

Now previously, I've gone on and on when it comes to the capacity Power Court will offer, I still maintain that for a club of our size, and its fan base, 17,500 would have been more than sufficient, the proposed 25,000 capacity is too big and I can't help feel that there will be swathes of empty seats, for a lot of games.

Filling it to capacity will, in my opinion, be a rarity.

You only have to look at our last two home games, in the EFL League One, to highlight the point.

Against Huddersfield Town, the capacity was announced as 9,971 with 589 journeying down from Yorkshire on a wintery night, leaving the Luton Town contingent as being, circa, 9,382.

Yesterday, just days later, the attendance, for the Bolton Wanderers fixture was announced as 11,204 which included 1,329 supporters travelling down from the north-west, leaving the Luton Town support as being, circa, 9,875, a mere 500, approximately, more.

The indications are that, despite our recent trials and tribulations, plunging down two tiers in English football, our fan base remains around the 9,500 to 10,000 mark, can you see where this is heading?

Power Court will be a magnificent stage, something we can be proud of, but I can't help thinking we've missed the boat, it's a stage fit for top tier football, at this moment in time I'd suggest that we're as far away as we've ever been from the Premier League.

Now we can discuss the reasons for an age and a day as to why it happened, but the simple truth is, in my view, any hopes we have of capturing the unique atmosphere Kenilworth Road has will be lost in swathes of empty seats, the harsh reality I'm afraid or perhaps something best described as a missed opportunity!