I was unable to make the match at Crewe so this match report is taken from the message board and was written by Jonno.

A half-hearted display by Rangers got exactly what it deserved as we lost a game we should have won so comfortably.

Despite having nobody who can play as a wing-back we started the game with that formation, with Ready, Bara and Perry at the back, Murray and Bruce being the latest two of our players showing their inability to play the wingback role, Peacock, Wardley and Langley in midfield, with Taylor and Kiwomya up front Rangers appeared to be playing at half pace in an atmosphere more like a friendly match, strange given how desperately Crewe needed the points.

While most of the Rangers players appeared to be more concerned with avoiding injury, or putting in no more than about eighty per cent effort, Crewe were so poor that we still looked a class above them. It soon became obvious that Crewe would never score against us without some help, so Murray duly obliged by making a needless late challenge in the box to give them a penalty.

We then immediately switched to 4-4-2 (begging the question of course why didn't we start like that), with Perry moving to right back and Murray to right midfield. We proceeded to dominate the rest of the first half without looking like scoring, hardly surprising given the appalling performance of Taylor up front, until just before the interval when we finally put a decent move together, leaving Langley with a shooting opportunity on the edge of the box.

It was typical of the game that his shot was miss hit enough to beat the keeper. By now, the abysmal Taylor had fortunately picked up a knock and had been replaced by Koejoe. Instead of upping the pace in the second half, as usual we sat back and let Crewe back into it, although again they never really looked like scoring until Harper this time obliged by coming ludicrously off his line to a ball he was never near getting, and watching the resultant back header loop over him into the empty net.

Finally, too late of course, Gallen came on to replace the hapless Bruce and we finally started to attack, creating a number of chances, which we contrived to miss. Scully was thrown on near the end in place of Langley, but to predictably no effect.

Overall then a poor performance compounded by poor team selection and tactics by the management.