A fourth midweek goalless draw of the season for Rushden & Diamonds only featured brief spells of entertainment in front of a small crowd.
Yet it makes you wonder what more must be done to bring back the supporters to Nene Park when Justin Edinbur
gh's side are pushing for the Blue Square Premier play-off places.
Diamonds have never beaten Wrexham at home but last night they had chances to change that record.
Jefferson Louis – last season's top scorer at Wrexham – led the Diamonds attack after extending his loan spell until the end of the current campaign while Dean Saunders' side were without leading marksman Gareth Taylor through injury.
Unsurprisingly it was an unchanged line-up as Diamonds looked to build on the 4-1 demolition of Barrow and they should have taken the lead after just 15 minutes last night.
Jamie Stuart released Mark Byrne down the left and his cross found Craig Farrell in the middle of the six-yard box. But he somehow clipped the shot off the top of the bar and over.
Within a minute Lamine Sakho got behind the Diamonds defence but Dale Roberts was alert to kick out his effort with Wrexham's only clear-cut chance of the first half. Curtis Osano tried his luck with some long-range drives, Lee Tomlin's strike was deflected wide of the post and Farrell nodded over Byrne's cross.
Diamonds thought the deadlock had been broken on 36 minutes as Byrne
slotted home Tomlin's low centre. However an offside flag meant it was instantly disallowed.
Tomlin had made an early tactical switch to the right – going up against veteran defender Frank Sinclair – but that couldn't produce the breakthrough.
Both bosses made substitutions at the start of the second half and four minutes later Aaron O'Connor fired into the empty AirWair Stand on his return from injury.
Tomlin and Stuart went for an action replay of Diamonds' fourth goal on
Saturday when a free-kick found the skipper's near-post run, only for Sam Russell to make an easy catch this time.
Diamonds had a lucky escape as Sinclair blasted against the post but O'Connor came close on the counter-attack with a low angled drive.
Wrexham substitute Obi Anoruo was denied twice by Roberts to preserve a clean sheet and Byrne's stoppage-time header was tipped out by Russell.
Hopefully those play-off dreams will still be alive when Diamonds head to north Wales for their last away game of the season in mid-April.
But the home record must provide more points in big games coming up.
Who knows, maybe the crowds will even go up as well…
