Oh Dear! I think that's the best way to start this particular match report after another shoddy home performance.

This weeks visitors were Leicester City, without a manager and on the back of six away defeats in a row plus they were still reeling from letting Dion Dublin and Mark De Vries leave before the transfer window closed. With thirteen points separating the two teams at the start of the evening it was doubtful that Rangers would get a better chance of three points all season.

Ian Holloway made just one change, which came a bit of a surprise. Shabazz Baidoo was dropped to the bench in favour of Marc Nygaard. I say it was a bit of a surprise as defensively we had looked hopeless against Luton and I expected a change among the back four but loan signings Taylor and Kus were among the subs rather the starting eleven. Richard Langley also started despite suffering with a foot injury.

The game started with the visitors looking well up for the game and keen to get themselves out of the bottom three. They passed their way through our midfield and defence with relative ease whilst Shittu and Santos looked a disaster from the first minute. The back four seemed to want to get rid of the ball as quickly as possible leaving the midfield having to watch the ball go over their heads.

We did grab an early lead though with our first attack of the game and it was once again Ainsworth who got on the score sheet. A lovely ball out wide by Langley got the move going and Cook had the time and space to pick out an inch perfect cross for Ainsworth to rise unmarked and head past Douglas in the Leicester goal. Cue Pig Bag and this should have been a good start to a comfortable night.

Unfortunately Leicester hadn't read the script and it was a case on bring on the clowns as the Rangers defence did all they could to get into Soccer AM's taxi segment on Saturday. Shittu and Santos left the ball to each other and made a right mess of clearly it to allow Matt Fryatt the chance to volley past Royce at the second attempt for 1-1.

Lomas came back to have a few words with the central defenders but it didn't make much difference as the pair of them spent the rest of the game arguing with each other and getting in each others way.

The game quickly turned into a bore with neither side looking like they had much of a clue. Rangers had the better chances but were so poor I was looking around to see if Sky had turned up to show the game live. Paul Furlong had our best chances seeing one effort cleared off the line and Douglas saved another effort.

It was all few and far between though and Rangers only real threats came through Langley and Ainsworth. Langley was our only player to win the ball in midfield and pass it to a teammate.

I lost count of the times he'd get the ball beat a man look up see no movement so try and keep the ball longer to pick out a pass and just have to end up going back to Santos who for all his faults at least didn't hide and always wanted the ball. Shame he'd then put it in the crowd every time but at least he gave Langers an option.

Langley was also being played into trouble by Matthew Rose on more than few occasions and he did well to retain possession with three men on him rather than just fall over under the slightest challenge as Cook was doing.

Out wide Ainsworth was also having a go and working hard, his end product wasn't great but it was good to see someone showing a bit of effort.

Elsewhere the rest of the team was dire. Furlong was doing all he could to get sent off and was lucky to escape least a yellow for several late challenges and one incident where he left the full back spark out with an elbow.

As half time approached Leicester began to get on top and Royce made two good saves to ensure we went into the break level pegging.

During the break the stewards did their best to make the night even worse as we spent several minutes arguing with a steward as to why we were not allowed to leave the lower loft bar via two doors with a large exit sign over them. I'd always assumed doors with an exit sign meant that this was the exit but obviously that's not the case at Loftus Road.

After that argument we had to sit through another half of rubbish and the game managed to get even worse. Very little happened as the pattern of comedy defending and Furlong giving away free kicks followed.

Santos was getting stick for two sliced clearances one under no pressure which he looked up and put into the paddock and the other where I think the ball had seen enough and flew over the Ellersile Road stand and made it's break for freedom.

After an hour or so Shabazz Baidoo came on for Marc Nygaard whose only real contribution was to be brought down for a blatant penalty but the referee waved it away.

Baidoo came on and looked lively but Leicester were aware of his threat and had three men on him almost every time he got the ball which really nullified any danger he was going to create.

Gareth Ainsworth was still having a go and saw his effort disallowed for offside as he shot from close range. To be fair he was miles offside along with two others and we didn't deserve the lead anyway.

We kept huffing and puffing but had long run out of ideas when Leicester took the lead with a rare attack. Matthew Rose was at fault as once again his weak clearance was picked up and two passed later they had cut through our defence with Stearman having the freedom of the penalty area to knock it past Royce.

The stadium erupted into boos and most fans walked out in disgust of a pitiful performance. It was almost three soon after when Fryatt was denied by Royce but against the odds we then drew level.

Ainsworth again beta his man and was knocked down the 72nd time in the game. Lee Cook stood over the free kick and curled lovely ball to the far post where Shittu was unmarked and headed home from a tight angle.

Hope at last and we looked like pushing on to get a winner.

Ainsworth then signalled to the bench he wanted to come off with an arm injury but by the time Donnelly was stripped and the board was up he'd changed his mind screaming no and making wild hand signals as if to say he was fine.I'd rather he just went on than make a big deal and see young Scott Donnelly run on to a chorus of boos. Stefan Moore also came on for some fresh legs to replace Furlong.

The changes had the opposite effect that was intended though as it was Leicester who grabbed a late winner. One again it was pantomime defending as they cut trough us and although Fryatt looked well offside he was bale to square it for the unmarked Hughes to have the freedom of the penalty box and make it 3-2.

That was it and despite a late Cook corner the game was lost and the team were roundly booed off following yet another pitiful performance.

It's hard to know where to start really when looking at that performance.

I didn't really have a problem with the side Holloway picked. Nygaard and Furlong can work and did work against Leicester earlier in the season and bringing on a fresh Baidoo for the last half an hour was the right thing to do.

What he did cock up on though was not taking off Santos who was having an absolute shocker. Rose looked like he was frightened his left leg would fall off if he used it. The change to bring Taylor on and move Rose inside was so obvious it was bloody embarrassing.

The buck obviously stops with the manager and blaming injuries is getting boring now as we had more than enough fit players to win that game last night. The players didn't exactly do him or us any favours last night though and I doubt they are told to go out and play like that.

I thought only Langley and Ainsworth looked remotely interested and poor Langers was still getting most of the stick for trying to keep possession rather than knock it long to no one. On one hand people moan that we knock it long and then the same people slate Langley and Cook for trying to keep the ball.

There was just so much wrong last night and it wasn't even a one off. Defending should start from the front but the front two rarely closed anyone down and when they did it was more of a token effort until Baidoo came on. The midfield just sat off them and the back four were just comical.

We're in such a state at the moment. Holloway has the rest of the season to sort this out otherwise he'll have to go and he'll only have himself to blame if he can't sort this out.

This season was always going to come eventually when we'd hit a wall, the crowd would turn and we'd start going backwards. It was inevitable after a few years of doing well, it happened to Cardiff last year and looking up a division it's happened to Birmingham and Middlesbrough this year.

The trick now is making sure we stay mid table and don't get sucked into a relegation battle which, considering who our next three away games are against, is not as easy as it should have been.

We all want to see better football but when we do play long ball stuff I'd at least expect us to be competing for every ball and fighting our hearts out but at the moment that's not happening. The season ticket prices have made a huge impact on the atmosphere around the ground but I doubt anyone would care about prices if the team were sitting mid table and playing decent football.

Leeds United are next and wholesale changes are expected. If I was in charge I'd drop Santos, Rose and Furlong and bring in the new boys Taylor, Clarke and Lowe. Anything other than a 200% improvement in performance on Saturday will see Leeds absolutely stuff us again. At least Brian Deane won't be playing this year.

Man of the Match: Richard Langley

Players Ratings: Royce 6, Bignot 5, Rose 4, Santos 3, Shittu 5, Ainsworth 6 (Donnelly 6), Lomas 6, Langley 6, Cook 5, Furlong 4 (Moore 6), Nygaard 5 (Baidoo 6)