Yet another below par performance, this time, against the divisions poorest side saw another two crucial points thrown away at home. The four points dropped in our last two home games could prove to be costly in the end of season shake up. This was a game Rangers could have and should have won.

After last weeks poor showing it was thought that Holloway may ring the changes but he largely kept faith with the side that had come away empty handed at Huddersfield. The only changes saw Murphy drop out of the side to get a well-earned rest to be replaced by Doudou. This meant Marcus Bignot dropped in at left back with the little fella on the right wing.

Cambridge set their stall out from the first whistle. After an initial flurry of attacking that lasted all of two minutes, they seemed content to get as many men behind the ball as they could. This was understandable from a team that had managed to gain only one point away from home all season. Rangers should have been 2-0 ahead after ten minutes but Andy Thomson's lack of confidence came alarmingly to the fore.

After only five minutes, good interplay outside the box led to Griffiths producing a fantastic through ball. Thomson ran onto it, took it on his chest and leathered it into The Loft. He never looked in control of the ball and his wild slash with his left foot as very unlike him. You could forgive him one, but not two and minutes later he missed the best chance of the match.

A ball dinked over the top left Thomson bearing down on goal with only Perez to beat. The ball sat up beautifully for him and he had so much time he could have taken a couple of touches. He chose power over finesse and lashed the ball over the bar to leave The Loft diving for cover again. Earlier in the season he would have taken one, if not both, of these chances. Talk of a move away seems to have shot him to pieces and if he doesn't get a goal soon the crowd will turn on him, eighteen goals or not. Nobody wants to see this but it is the nature of football. His last goal came in the 4-3 against Wycombe at the end of December but this is not his first mini drought. Twice before he has come through a barren month with a hail of goals but this time, I am not sure it will happen.

Rangers were now cutting Cambridge to ribbons only for every ball in to be headed away, caught by Perez or just sail over everybody and away to safety. The left side was proving particularly fruitful and Griffiths and Bignot teamed up effectively on five or six occasions. Despite our pressure, chances were rare and our only other shot on target of the half came when Doudou managed to create himself some space to fire in a weak shot that Perez could have thrown his hat on.

At half time, Cambridge replaced Tony Scully with a man mountain of a centre half not dissimilar in build to big Danny. They switched to five at the back and tried to shut up shop. This seemed to fool Rangers and all of a sudden, we were bereft of ideas to break them down. After seeing the team huffing and puffing around for ten minutes Holloway made a decision to change the formation. He switched to a back three with five in midfield and I think this may have cost us a couple of points.

Almost immediately Cambridge created their best two chances of the game. The first was a stinging volley from striker Dave Kitson. A long ball was latched onto by the ginger hitman and his effort produced a fantastic save from Digby. Minute's later Digby pulled off another stunning stop in response to a fierce twenty-five yard volley, I have no idea who hit it but he must have thought it was in.

In the second half we saw both sides of Digby and I am sure my criticism of him will get me called all the names under the sun from the rose tinted spectacles brigade. He showed us that his shot stopping is possibly, as good as there is in this division but his kicking and decision making are poor at best. Three times, he attempted to punch balls that he could have caught. Three times, they fell to Cambridge players in the box and it was left for others to clear up the mess. Shittu had to produce a great block to prevent a certain goal when it seemed Digby was never getting back in time. I don't think I need mention his kicking! For all his faults though, he continues to earn us points but at some stage, it is going to go the other way.

Anyway, back to the change in formation. I think Holloway would have been better served keeping the same formation and changing the personnel. Thomson had done nothing and Gallen was not far behind him having only had one shot all day, but it was still a surprise when they were both taken off. I think we would have been better off leaving Gallen on as his link play is vital to us. I think Langley needed to be given longer than ten minutes and he showed when he came on that he has the ability to run a game. Holloway thinks he is still six months away from his best. I hate to point this out Ian, but a Langley playing at 60% is still better than anything else we have. He should play now and if necessary the formation should be adjusted to fit him in, we will get no worth out of him if he is left standing around on the wing.

The only other decent effort we could muster was a shot from wide from Richard Pacquette that Perez fielded easily. The crowd booed the team off at the end of the game much to the bemusement of Palmer and Peacock. Sorry to say it lads but this is just not good enough. If you cannot beat the worst away team in the division then you have to ask whether you really deserve a play off place.

So far this season we have drawn seven games at home, the joint highest number in the division and the joint second highest in the entire football league. When you consider that three of these were against Colchester, Bournemouth and Cambridge that has to be considered six points lost rather than three gained. With our extra six points, we would be in fourth place behind Stoke on goal difference.

Even if we don't make the play offs this season I will still be delighted with what Holloway has achieved. He has turned a side of kids and has-beens into a team we can be proud of and that is something you cannot say of Rangers teams in recent years. However, with a more of a ruthless attitude we are good enough to get out of this division this year and I think we can do it. Holloway needs to act now and either get this team killing off lesser opponents or find some players that will.