Mark Jones was massively disappointed after the 2-0 defeat to Cambridge United on Saturday.

"It's not good enough, plain and simple. We could have been playing out there until next Saturday and I don't think we would have scored," he said.

"It's the same story every week: sloppy mistakes and we don't look like scoring."

Cambridge's first goal particularly concerned him, as Dean Saunders' side, which looked compact and capable of striking on the break, conceded early on.

This changed the dynamic of the game: rather than keep it tight and hit on the counter, Wrexham once again had to strive to get a goal back, with all the commensurate pressures coming to play on a barren attack.

"It was a sloppy mistake again. It was a free kick and I'm not sure whether Maxi couldn't see it or not, but it got through the wall and it was a sloppy way to go a goal down away from home. If that hadn't happened the game would have developed differently."

Jones is at a loss to explain just why the slide has occurred though, as he has no doubt the pedigree of the squad is more than adequate to propel a promotion push.

"It's so frustrating because we've definitely got the players. We've got pace in the team, we've got people who can score goals. We just don't play to our strengths at all. You could probably say exactly the same thing after the last three or four games. It's just not good enough."

While the strikers aren't hitting the target, Jonesis quick to suggest that the quality of service they're receiving is a key part of their inability to find the net, particularly in the case of the club's new target man.

"We've got a quality striker in Gareth Taylor and we're just not using him properly or working off him properly.

"Gareth's played at a really high level, but instead of playing it in to his feet we're trying to stick it on his head and he's stretching for it all the time. I don't know why this keeps happening!"