Paul Groves dropped himself to the bench for Greg Young. Jason Crowe moved into midfield alongside Nick Daws, who now has his own shirt and not Pouton’s old one with felt-tip on it.
Iain Anderson and Phil Jevons swopped wings with Jevons moving onto the right. The returning Michael Boulding replaced Darren Mansaram up front to partner Iffy Onuora.
Wrexham included some biggish names in their team. Son of Alex, Darren Ferguson. Wonder if he’s fed up of people mentioning his dad all the time? Former Spurs and, I believe, England B striker Chris Armstrong was up front for the Dragons.
Town started in an ok manner, Boulding was running around like a mad man as he chased everything and anything down. Young also flew off at 100mph with several bursts down the wing, sadly support from Anderson never arrived and the left-footer failed to deliver his crosses.
Jevons continued his good with a series of good through balls and crosses. Nothing came of them though as the Wrexham defence marshalled Onoura and Boulding with ease.
Boulding had the legs on his markers but it’s never easy to go past a man who has his arm around your neck. Referee Heggley missed this but it hardly mattered overall.
Town were starting to lose their grip on the game and it was no surprise that they took the lead on 19 minutes. The highly rated Carlos Edwards wasn’t picked up by Young or Anderson. The wingback had the time he needed to cross for former Norwich winger Chris Llewellyn, who ran in unmarked to head past the helpless Davison.
Four minutes later it was 2-0, game over. Edwards skinned Young before finding Stephen Thomas. His curling effort again left Davison grasping thin air as the 50 or so Wrexham fans celebrated.
Around this point trouble kicked off in the Pontoon between those supporting Groves and those against him. Stewards marched in and hauled a handful of latter out. So that’s more revenue we’ll be losing, what the hell happened to moving people to other parts of the game? Sorry but people arguing at football games is nothing new. Sure, you always get the odd knobhead and you can throw those out. But when you start throwing people out for voicing their opinions it’s not on. Joseph Stalin was no doubt smiling from his grave.
The game, and this half especially, was poor. Little else happened other than Jevons having a header saved and Anderson firing wide with a 35-yard free-kick.
Half-time and the feeling was general - we’re shit!
Second half we was better, couldn’t have got worse though so don’t go getting excited on me.
Seconds in and Onuora rolled back the years. Barging past a few players he looked the player we thought we’d signed. 25 yards out he spotted the goal and curled an effort goalwards, however it was marginally too high and clipped the top of the bar, Dibble probably had it covered anyway.
Neat Town play saw Boulding lay back for Jevons. In this form you would expect Jevvo to burst the net with such an easy chance. A bloody good welly of a kick was needed, instead he tried to much and missed the ball.
With a fightback needed Town made so changes. The, forever it seems, ineffective Anderson was replaced by.........Hockless? Hockless? Hockless? Is it Hockless? I don’t know, I can’t see!...........Des Hamilton. Mansaram replaced Iffy as well.
Despite the changes, Town fell further behind on 67 minutes. Edwards made it a hat-trick of assists when he romped down the wing before pulling back for Armstrong. The bum-fluffed one slammed home to seal the win.
Town played their best stuff from now on, but it still wasn’t anything mind-blowing.
Mansaram did his usual trickery down the wing and his cross was met by a clever Jevons header which beat Dibble. 5 goals now for Jevvo. Get this, he’s scoring goals. But we still play him on the wing, even though he’s actually a striker.
Now lets play a game. You be a football manager, for the sake of the game your name is G. Proves. You’ve got a really bad problem at your club. The forwards aren’t scoring enough goals, in fact you’re relying on a striker who’s injury prone and likely to leave the club before the season ends, B. Moulding is his name. Another striker at the club, J. Pevons is on fire after his public spat with the chairm....err, kitman. He’s scoring goals for fun despite you playing him on the wing, do you A)keep him on the wing B) keep him on the wing or C) keen him on the wing?
If you answered A), B) or C) congratulations. You are now qualified to mismanage a 2nd division team and take them down into the depths of the 3rd division.
Town pushed forward in search of an unlikely comeback, it never looked like coming though. Towards the end Jevons hit the woodwork but that was it. Disappointing.
Once again we rolled over far to easily. Missing again was the passion and pride that is needed to win, or even draw, games. A change is needed and it’s bleeding obvious. The players aren’t playing for Groves, his tactics or selections aren’t working and judging by the 3,572 gate the fans have had enough too.
Man of the Match - Errrrr no-one really deserved it. I heard Jason Crowe refused the official MOM award because he felt no-one deserved to be awarded on that. Because of that, he also gave 100% all game, he gets the honour.