The five-hour round trip away to Wrexham on Tuesday was exactly as you’d imagine on a cold, wet night in January. <\/p>\n
Football is supposed to make those kind of trips worthwhile, but sadly it just added to the misery of the evening.<\/p>\n
The fans were muted for the most part, likely stunned into silence by what they were witnessing and have witnessed from our performances these past few months.<\/p>\n
The equaliser was met with a sarcastic cheer from some and despite rescuing a point late on, it really felt like a loss.<\/p>\n
Seeing the glass half full is getting increasingly harder to do with this side. We are an enigma; a team seemingly full of talent but unable to orchestrate any 90-minute performance this season. <\/p>\n
The 22 games without a clean sheet in the league tells the sorry tale of our defending.<\/p>\n
Oxford arrive on Saturday and what should be a winnable game really doesn’t feel like it, and I have no idea how we are going to break this cycle of apathetic football. More so, if star man Jordan James misses the game through injury as is expected.<\/p>\n
Marti Cifuentes made some tough decisions earlier in the season, with the Harry Winks and Wout Faes sagas. <\/p>\n
But he must make further ones to punish the persistent under-performers and at least experiment more with some of the youth, whilst cash is tight, who have been given only minutes here and there. <\/p>\n
If his stubbornness continues, so will the poor performances and his job will become increasingly untenable. Nothing changes unless something changes.<\/p>\n