There seem to be two issues which are exercising the minds of Wrexham fans at the moment: our lack of goals and whether the penalty area is no country for old men.

I was discussing our prospects before the FA Trophy final for the Out of the League podcast, and was asked about the prospect of the three wise men, Dele Adebola, Brett Ormerod and Andy Morrell being used in a front three with a combined age which Carol Vorderman would struggle to compute.

I confidently stated that we wouldn’t start all three together up front, but there’s no doubt that their form over the next month will be crucial to our prospects of success come the end of the season.

Alarmingly, Adebola’s goal at Lincoln was our last in open play before the Mansfield match, and Morrell will clearly be looking closely at the configuration of his front three for the run-in. An awful lot of fans have heaped the blame for our barren run onto Adebola’s shoulders, which seems harsh. The absence of Danny Wright for a couple of games was a more obvious issue, I suspect, but it is true that we haven’t really played with a static target man in the Adebola’s mould since Andy Morrell took over-Gareth Taylor was the last player of that type I can recall in a Wrexham shirt. We don’t seem to have fluently adapted to the different attributes he offers.

Those tantalising twenty minutes against Ebbsfleet, where Adebola rampaged around, got a goal and looked terrifying until he limped off injured might just be in Morrell’s mind. He offered a small reminder of that sort of form after coming off the bench against Mansfield too. If the big man can play like that then he’s a certain starter. But if he can’t,  Morrell has limited options.

What worries me about Adebola is that he doesn’t really achieve what you’d think would come naturally to him: he doesn’t seem to be roughing up defenders as I’d have hoped, so an alternative method of working them might be required.

Morrell might be slighter, but he actually wears centre backs down more, while using Ormerod through the centre would offer movement which inconveniences them and allows others to make runs into the space he creates.

There seems little point in using Danny Wright there, as his form cutting in from the right has been so impressive that shifting him around would be illogical, although it does seem to me that he’s been a little less prominent since Adebola arrived. It was interesting, in the light of that, to watch his performance against Mansfield. He rampaged around to terrific effect with Adebola on the bench, often playing more centrally than usual in a fluid front three and roughing up the redoubtable Mansfield centre backs in a manner they’ll have rerely experiences this season. When Adebola came off the bench Wright continued to impress, and for the first time they combined well: both were played a little more centrally than usual with Little given more of a frtee role behind them in a new configuration which was intriguing to see.

Still, Little’s no spring chicken either. Whisper it, but the solution to the central attacking conundrum, and our fate in general, seems to be restricted to the elderly forwards so many fans have reservations about.