We profile three Luton Town players who could prove key against Barnet on Saturday

It all looked good for former Barnet boss John Still with 16 games of last season remaining. His side were fourth, just outside of the automatic places and seemingly a shoo-in for the play-offs in their first season back in the Football League after winning the Conference.

However, the Hatters would record just four more wins before the season was out. Alarmingly, though, they lost 11 of those fixtures to slip to eighth and eventually finish three points outside of the top seven.

Expected to be amongst the runners and riders for automatic promotion this season, not least after adding former Brighton & Hove Albion striker Craig Mackail-Smith, injured ahead of the Bees’ visit, Luton have flattered to deceive so far and sit 13th with a third of the season gone.

Four points off the play-offs following a start which saw them lose four of their first seven, Still warned his teams tended to start slowly and the Hatters duly dropped as low as 20th with defeat at Notts County.

Four consecutive wins got the Bedfordshire side moving in the right direction and they’ve now lost just twice since mid-September in the league.

Here we profile three Luton players who could prove key against Barnet on Saturday.

Cameron McGeehan: The former Norwich City youngster joined the Hatters on a permanent basis this summer after two successful loan spells at Kenilworth Road previously.

And the 20-year-old midfielder has hit the ground running at his new home, scoring five times in 12 league starts, adding to the six he hit in 22 starts across two loan stints.

Born in Kingston, the Northern Ireland Under-21 cap never made a senior appearance for the Canaries but impressed Luton boss Still enough to spend an undisclosed six-figure sum to bring him to the club.

McGeehan, who started out closer to home with Fulham before an £80,000 switch to Chelsea, qualifies to represent Northern Ireland through his grandmother.

But in September found himself at the centre of controversy when he rejected a call-up – despite having already earned a handful of Under-21 caps – in order to consider his international future.

Suspended by the Northern Irish Football Association for the duration of that international break, Marriott missed a game against Cambridge United – a side he has also represented on loan.

Jack Marriott: After impressing in the National League with Woking in three separate loan spells, Luton have given the young striker the chance to prove his point in the Football League and he has rewarded Still’s faith.

Five goals in four league starts represents an excellent return but only one of those – in a 1-1 draw against Leyton Orient – has actually come from the start. Braces against Wimbledon and Hartlepool United have both come from the bench.

Marriott, 21, started out with Ipswich Town but made just two substitute appearances in the league before leaving Portman Road for good this summer after a spate of loan spells.

It was with Garry Hill’s Cards he enjoyed the most success, netting 16 times in in 36 outings across the last two seasons.

Scott Cuthbert: The experienced defender made the switch to Kenilworth Road from relegated Leyton Orient in the summer after making 160 appearances in all competitions for the O’s during a four-year stay.

Born in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, the 28-year-old began his professional career with Celtic but failed to make his breakthrough in six years at Parkhead.

Loan stints with Livingston and St Mirren provided a taste of first team action before the centre-back-cum-right-back made the move south of the border to join Swindon Town.

But despite confirming he would like to remain with the Robins following relegation to League Two in 2011, Cuthbert was not offered a new deal.

Signed up by Orient on a two-year deal that summer, Cuthbert became a mainstay of Russell Slade’s side and was part of the side which came within a whisker of the Championship in 2014, losing the League One Play-Off Final to Rotherham United at Wembley.