Well, that was a hard watch. I honestly thought with our recent good run & the benefit of a settled team (unlike when we played them at Xmas) that we’d give them a good match but some flaky defending was ruthlessly punished by their League 1 standard strike force & we had our pants comprehensively pulled down in the first half. The positives that we kept our shape, discipline & worked hard in the second half to restrict it to 4 but they had the cigars out by that point. Have to say that for me unfortunately there was a big drop off in our hold up play when Hancock came on & that for me he’s been a legend but he is increasingly a bit-part player for us at this level now.
From what I have seen of the sides around the top, County & Wrexham are absolutely miles ahead of the rest. That yard quicker, stronger, fitter, ruthless in the box. Just a real shame two of our biggest away followings of the season have seen us get demolished at Edgeley Park & the Racecourse. Still that’s what millions of pounds does for you. I could see both going straight through to League 1 before long too.
Wrexham off the pitch needs some attention though. The ground visually looks very dilapidated from the outside & one small snack kiosk for 400 away fans in a ground that big isn’t great. The tedious yoof in the corner nearest the away end with their cliched repotoire about ‘Alty get battered’ etc need a new songbook too.