Crawley took the lead early on through Steve Burton as the players looked to come to terms with some testing conditions. There were no further goals before the break although Scott Donnelly did limp off with a foot injury. He has been out for the last couple of games with a damaged foot but we shouldn’t be surprised that one of our players has suffered an injury recurrence. It is an all too familiar story at the club over the past couple of seasons.

Two minutes from time Crawley went 2-0 ahead when Omari Coleman beat the returning Simon Royce. Rangers hit back immediately through Stefan Moore but it was not enough to get anything from the match.

Crawley manager and former R’s legend John Hollins was rumoured to have cancelled training today so the first team could play in an attempt to flog the lot of them. No doubt the players cranked it up a notch from the wretched league displays of late in an attempt to jump off of a rapidly sinking ship.

For Rangers the main focus of the game was getting a good 90 minutes in for Simon Royce and he is sure to be back on the bench for Saturday’s first team game against Sheffield Wednesday. The injury to Donnelly is a worry; hopefully it is nothing more serious than a knock.