WREXHAM chairman Mark Guterman has apologised to Dragons fans who made the 400-mile round trip to Yeovil - and offered them free admission to the next home game.

Fans who can provide evidence they were at Saturday's FA Cup first-round drubbing will be given free entry to the Racecourse on November 22, when Wrexham face Wycombe Wanderers.

History repeated itself as Wrexham were stuffed 4-1 at Yeovil before the TV cameras - two years after their defeat at Hereford United, a match also broadcast live to the nation.

And Mr Guterman has pledged to make it up to disappointed Dragons fans. He said: 'I feel very disappointed as, I'm sure, do the Wrexham fans who were there. I thought, all things considered, they were magnificent and I want to apologise to them on behalf of the club.

'I feel so strongly about this I am offering those supporters who were there free admission at our next home game.

'We, as a club, have to accept some responsibility for this.' Boss Denis Smith also vented his fury with his players, slamming what he described as 'abysmal' defending. When asked what went wrong, he said: 'Everything. I would think that's as badly as we can play.

'Fair play to Yeovil. They worked hard and they closed us down, but our shape, our discipline, our passing - you could go on. It's difficult when you play that badly to explain what went wrong.

'We'll look whether some of them froze because they were on TV, but I don't know. Anyone who has seen us knows we don't let goals in, but in the end, we were perhaps happy to concede only four.

'There was just no discipline and the shape was wrong. Yeovil worked hard but teams have done that to us in the past and we've bypassed that. It was an embarrassing performance, to be honest.

'We are a team who knows our job. The players know what they should be doing, but if you looked at that you wouldn't believe they had ever met one another, never mind knowing who should be closing down, when and where. We didn't work as a unit throughout the game.

'I don't know where that performance came from. It's very, very difficult to understand how a team who has performed the way we have for the last six months, possibly longer, performed like that.

'It just doesn't make sense to me whatsoever. It's not the best of places to be at the moment and we'll have a long chat about it.'

The defeat sealed a week of cup woe for Wrexham, who crashed out of the LDV Vans Trophy at the hands of Stockport County just three days earlier.

Smith added: 'I can only apologise to the poor fans who travelled, or even those who watched us on the TV. They must wonder what we are doing in training because looking at that, I wonder.

'So we've got to go back to the drawing board and start again. Perhaps we should go back to being hard to beat instead of being pretty. There's a lot of hard thinking to do between now and the next game.' As the Mail went to press, Wrexham were due to travel to the coast to take on Blackpool at Bloomfield Road. Shaun Holmes (groin) and Paul Edwards (family bereavement) are both out. The following Saturday, Wrexham will make the trip to Luton Town.

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