Due to being away for Christmas I couldn't make this game. So this report is from the excellent Rangers Till I Die website written by Tony Johnson: http://www.rtid.co.uk

Rangers were extremely lucky to win this game after playing well to get a two goal lead but then resorting to long ball rubbish in the second period and handing the initiative to the visitors.

It wouldn't be a Holloway team without a number of players playing out of position and today was no different.

Alongside the lumbering Palmer in central midfield (when will Holloway realise that with this guy in midfield we are making it far too difficult to play decent football consistently) and central midfielder Bircham on the right wing we were treated to a new idea - the right footed central defender/sweeper Rose playing at.....left back. Brilliant idea from our esteemed manager.

You had to feel sorry for Rose - he'd had a good game last time out, covering Carlisle in central defence and this was his reward.

Wycombe were the usual predictable cheating thugs, but that should surely come as no surprise by now. It should also have come as no surprise that playing a bit of decent football, in the shape of Rose simply running with the ball at his feet from his own half (this sort of thing will be the undoing of most Div 2 defences and today's visitors were no exception), playing a good one two with Gallen in the penalty area and rifling home left footed inside the far post gave us the lead.

The ball never left the ground from the moment Rose picked it up in our half - Holloway please note. Wycombe attacked to attempt to get the equaliser, and with Shittu all over the place at the back it seemed they might be in with a chance, particularly so with Culkin as hesitant as ever in the Rangers goal.

But it was us that scored again, courtesy of a long free kick into the box from Langley, for once into the danger area, to find Gallen totally unmarked at the far post to volley home. Sanchez must have been furious on the Wycombe bench.

We then proceeded to play our best football of the match, getting Cook involved on the left wing, but the subsequent chances all went begging as Furlong, Gallen and Langley all failed to convert.

Second half and we were looking forward to more of the same, with some decent football cutting the visiting defence to pieces, populated, as it appeared, by a bunch of desperate thugs. It didn't happen ofcourse. That would have been far too easy.

We resorted to long ball hoofing from the back, no doubt exhorted to do so at half time by the "management". As a consequence, we played into Wycombe's hands and they proceeded to dominate the second period as their goalkeeper was virtually a spectator, so little action was he involved in.

Fortunately for us, the visitor's finishing was woeful, and it wasn't until ten minutes from the end until they finally got one back - otherwise they could well have won this game. By then, only Forbes was capable of defending out of our back four, with Rose continually out muscled at left back and Carlisle's confidence all but shot by having to play alongside Shittu, who did not seem tunderstand the simple basics of the game.

Bircham had been replaced by Daly (he had clearly been targetted by Sanchez to be wound up from the start and was getting ever closer to a red card). A simple through ball left Dixon with only Culkin to beat and the Rangers keeper was unable to repeat a good one on one save he had made a few minutes earlier.

Only then did it finally dawn on the management tha perhaps it was time to take the waster that is Furlong off. Unfortunately, that decision was combined with taking off the one decent left sided player we had in Cook and we were treated to the unedifying sight of the immobile Angell lumbering about the pitch up front in much the same way that Palmer does in midfield.

Thomson came on alongside Angell and we ended up with Gallen playing left midfield - some more great tactical thinking. Fortunately, Wycombe were so poor that they just could not force another goal and in fact we came nearest to scoring in the closing stages when Gallen shot straight at the keeper from close range, then knocking the rebound over the bar.

Three points - but if anyone thinks we have turned a corner, think again.