This was the third in our run of tricky away games and we should have come away with a point. With less than 10,000 people in attendance thanks to those genius' at ITV Sport, Rangers and Huddersfield served up a show that could hardly be described as a classic.

Kevin Gallen made a much needed return the starting line up following his recovery from a nagging thigh injury. Doudou, who has looked absolutely knackered in the last couple of games dropped to the bench. Other than that, Holloway stuck with the side that had turned out a bore draw with Bournemouth in midweek. It looked as though we were in for more of the same.

The first half was a one team show with Huddersfield running it from start to finish. Former loan Ranger Leon Knight looked to be in terrorising form. He is on a season long loan from Chelsea and he seems to have improved as a player since he was at Loftus Road. The fact that he is not stuck out on the right wing helped and you could see he made a beeline for Steve Palmer whenever he could. Palmer and Shittu did well to restrict him to long range efforts.

Huddersfield had so much of the ball it was embarrassing. Rangers just couldn't string more than about three passes together despite the manful attempts of Kevin Gallen. Time and again in the first half, he received the ball on halfway, facing his own goal, only to find that he was getting little support from those around him. Once again, it seemed that without Doudou in the side our mobility just goes out the window.

The wide areas seemed to be the places that Rangers could exploit a potential weakness but all too often, the ball into the box was awful. We had been informed on the message board this week that when Leroy was at Hampton & Richmond he used to play wide left. I can only assume that they never asked him to cross a ball as several attempts were found seriously wanting. On one occasion in particular, we found ourselves with three players in the box only for the ball to end up in the front row of the stand. In games as tight as this, it is not good enough.

The whole left side in general in the first half was shocking. Danny Murphy had as bad a game as I have seen from him. This includes youth team and reserve games. One moment of indecision nearly gifted a goal to Knight and the amount of times he gave the ball away cheaply were too numerous to count. He is another player that looks in need of a rest but this will provide Holloway with a problem. You would not want to trust Warren or Bruce at left back and Marcus Bignot seems a square peg in a round hole when asked t fill in. Murphy may have to soldier on and this won't be good for him. Like any player that has such expectation on his shoulders many fans will jump on little errors and this may, in time, undermine his confidence. I hope to god this doesn't happen.

Huddersfield's goal was as much as result of poor defending as good play. Danny Schofield picked the ball up on the left wing a drove inside Forbes and Bignot. This was bad defending from this pair as anybody watching could see Schofield was all right foot and he should have been sent outside. He delivered a fine cross to the far post where Andy Booth arrived with a trademark header. The challenge from Palmer and Murphy was found seriously wanting and Booth's job seemed very easy.

Shortly after, a combination of Shittu and Digby managed to repel the mother and father of all goalmouth scrambles. Shittu twice hacked off the line and Digby produced an excellent save to take us into the break with a one goal deficit.

Holloway responded at half time by replacing Murphy with Doudou. Bignot moved to left back with Doudou on the right and we almost reaped immediate rewards. Good play from Gallen and Thomson on the edge of the box played the little man in. His first touch got away from him and Martyn Margetson saved well at his feet.

Rangers were now forcing some good pressure and Margetson again had to be at his best to thwart the lacklustre Thomson. Talk of a move away looks to have unsettled Thomson and at the moment, he looks a shell of the player that started the season in prolific form. Against Bournemouth, he was poor but the style of play didn't help him, at the McAlpine, there can be no such excuse. He looks lethargic and unwilling to chase lost causes as he did before. He may not be the most gifted individual outside the box but he always seemed to do his fair share, at the moment, he seems willing to let other do his running for him. If he carries on like this, I can't see him scoring more than three or four before the end of the season.

We also saw what has to be a candidate for the worst offside decision of the season. Terrell Forbes played a beautifully weighted ball over the top and Thomson and Connolly, who has now replaced Griffiths, ran onto it only for the flag to shoot up. The linesman had given offside against Gallen and Doudou who were blatantly running away from goal and not interfering. I would have taken either man to tuck it away but it was not to be and our hopes of a point slowly ebbed away.

In one final throw of the dice, Holloway replaced Thomson with Richard Pacquette. His surging run down the right was followed by a cross/shot that somehow eluded the flying boot of Connolly and that was that. No points from a game we deserved to get something from but a second half performance that reminded us that with a bit of luck we can still make the play offs.

Our run in to the close of the season is a strange one. Our home games are mostly against teams in the bottom half of the table and you know what that means, a bloody difficult series of away games. As Steve Palmer said in the last home programme, we need to get four points from every two games and it may be a tall order. Holloway's men will have to dig deep and start taking points from games like this if we want to achieve our goal.