With Rangers now safe from relegation and out of reach of the playoffs, it was hoped that the visit of bottom of the table and doomed Swindon would see Rangers turn on the style in front of our own fans.

Among those fans were local children (including my cousin Phillip) from 75 schools as the club tried to take the club to the locals to generate future support. After today I doubt many will be rushing back next season even for Ł2 a ticket.

It should have been the game we expected with Gerry Francis making the surprise choice of playing with three up front in a 4-3-3 formation. Mark Perry and Paul Bruce operated as full backs but both seemed to have a licence to get forward. Baraclough and Ready played as center backs with a midfield three of Peacock, Langley and Wardley. Taylor made his full debut up front alongside Kiwomya and Beck in what must have been Rangers most attacking line up on paper this season.

Sadly the game was played on grass instead of paper and Swindon tore Rangers apart early on. We looked all over the place at the back with hitting an excellent shot past Harper but it curled wide of the post. Swindon had four good chances early on, heading over once and seeing shots fly wide or straight at Harper.

Rangers looked to be playing at half pace and the crowd was as quiet as I have heard it in ages at loftus Road. Even the Q Block was half-empty and those who were standing in the Q Block were surprisingly quiet. Rangers seemed to have the ability to open Swindon up with some good attacking moves breaking down with poor final balls. Kiwomya and Beck almost found themselves through on separate occasions.

The opening goal came on 23 minutes after a clever set piece. Swindon had been playing the offside trap very well against Baracloughs usual chipped free kicks from half way. Baraclough changed the routine and knocked it to Kiwomya who was in space on the right. He knocked the ball forward and put in an excellent cross for Karl Ready to head home.

Mark Perry then ran down the right and was brought down in the area for a penalty. Langley seemed keen to take it but Mikkel Beck stepped up to stroke home a very well taken spot kick. Beck looked delighted and that was his third penalty he has scored since joining Rangers on loan.

This should have been the first of many but Rangers decided they had done enough and appeared to slip back into fifth gear. Former Rangers winger Michael Meaker was causing Paul Bruce to many problems beating him time and again with his strength and pace. Two assets he never showed when he was at Loftus Road.

It was another fine run by Meaker, which led to the goal of the game. Meaker picked out Graziloi whose overhead kick looked almost unstoppable. A superb goal and the best I have seen at Loftus Road this season. Swindon looked the more dangerous and earned themselves some late corners but Rangers held on to half time.

The second half should have seen Rangers step up a few gears and take Swindon apart but at no time in the entire 90 minutes did Rangers look like they were capable of doing what most other teams have done and give Swindon a good spanking. As the half wore on Swindon grew in confidence and in truth were the only side who were going to score in the second half. Gerry finally made a change after Paul Bruce in acres of space, took a touch and lined up a cross, which hit the roof of the upper loft. That just about summed up how we played. Bruce was taken off with Murray coming on and Sammy Koejoe replaced Gareth Taylor. Koejoe did inject a bit of life into the attack but not much and he saw a shot fly wide.

Murray was used out of position as a left back and was another who struggled against Meaker but he did manage to cope better than Bruce did. George Kulscar came on for the closing minutes in place of Wardley (perhaps Gerry took him off to remind us he was playing). Lee Harper then came for a cross he had no chance of getting and Mark Perry cleared off the line to save Rangers.

Meaker did well again in injury time and found himself through on goal, but not for the first time, the referee blew up for a free kick to Swindon. Obviously he hadn't heard of playing the advantage. Swindon looked like and deserved an equaliser and got one through Graziloi but it was ruled out for a foul after the ref had seemed to play well over the two minutes injury time.

So full time Rangers win again at fortress Loftus Road but despite the win, this was possibly our worst home performance of the season