Luton Town made the move to re-appoint Nathan Jones on Thursday, with him returning to the club whom he won promotion from League One with last season.

But are the Hatters making the right move here? Is this a wise move?

Our Football League World writers offer up their verdicts......

George Harbey

I think this managerial appointment is one that will divide Luton fans’ opinions up and down the country, and it is certainly a bold move.

Jones was a roaring success in his first spell at the club, and he had his players such an attractive brand of football, scoring plenty of goals and taking League One and League Two by storm, as well as having a really good relationship with the fans.

Of course, that relationship is bound to be a little tarnished right now and he will feel like he has to make amends, and the only way he can do that is by keeping the Hatters up, but personally, I don’t think you can blame him for wanting to change the fortunes of a club like Stoke who are a massive outfit with a big budget.

I feel like Luton have lost a bit of their identity following Nathan Jones’ departure. Most of the squad is now Graeme Jones’, so Nathan will have to hit the ground running before he’s allowed to bring in his own players this summer. The lengthy amount of training will be beneficial for him to get to know the new-look group.

Ned Holmes

This is a very interesting one but perhaps not a huge surprise.

It looks as if the Championship season is going to resume, so Luton need to throw everything they have at avoiding relegation and extending their stay in the second tier of English football.

In that sense, bringing back the most successful manager in their recent history makes an awful lot of sense.

Jones' exit was far from pretty and there will no doubt be swathes of the Kenilworth Road faithful that still feel betrayed by the Welshman, and rightly so.

He is going to have to win them round, which will not be easy but securing Championship survival would be a massive step towards doing that.

The issue Jones faces is that this squad is no longer built around his strengths, following the sales of a number of key men last summer, so this term it may be a question of how well he can adapt and use what he has available to him.

On a more long-term basis, he will no doubt be looking to get back to the long-term project he was building before he left to join Stoke.

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Alfie Burns

It’s an interesting turn of events and I’m sure that there’s plenty of people against the appointment of Jones for a number of reasons; he turned his back on the club in the middle of a promotion race, wore a Stoke City shirt to collect an award he won at Luton and then there’s loads bubbling away at boardroom level.

However, as Jones was labelled at his unveiling, he is the club’s most successful coach in the Football League and from a footballing perspective, you can certainly see why the Hatters have gone down this route.

My concern with this, though, is that Luton’s success with Jones came a lot further down the football pyramid and his stint in the Championship with Stoke was a poor one and never really felt like taking off.

Is this Luton resigning themselves to a future back in the third-tier of English football? I fear it is.

Jacob Potter

I have my doubts about him being reappointed to be honest.

Jones obviously knows the club well which is a positive, but a number of the players that he had available when they won promotion aren’t there anymore.

Jones has previously shown that he has struggled in his only job in management in the Championship, after a disastrous spell with Stoke City which eventually saw him dismissed.

He’s got a point to prove at this level, and if he can put together a positive run of results quickly, then he could prove to be the manager that can guide Luton Town to safety in the second tier.

Judging by the reaction on social media, the Kenilworth Road faithful don’t seem best pleased to see Jones returning to the club, and the fact that the season is going to be completed behind-closed-doors might actually benefit the Hatters boss.

If he can keep Luton in the Championship then it’ll be a great appointment, but I just have my doubts as to whether he’ll be able to get the best out of a squad that have struggled for much of this year’s campaign.