The Chairboys ended 2004 with two straight defeats. The first since Gorman and Brown, two-thirds of the new management set-up took over in November.
Wycombe claimed only three points out of a possible nine against teams that were higher in the league table going into each fixture - a disappointing climax since the team's apparent return to promotion-chasing form in the run up to Christmas.
Despite showing an element of unprofessionalism by conceding late on against Macclesfield, Gorman felt that his side deserved a draw, as was the case against Southend, where it was strangely the Boxing Day weather conditions that disrupted the team's style of play according to the boss.
In reality Wycombe have failed to score a goal in 180 minutes and of the forwards only Ian Stonebridge has scored in the last four games.
Former Reading striker Nathan Tyson has scored nine goals this season in 25 appearances compared with nine goals from 21 appearances for Wycombe last season.
But he missed the narrow victory against Lincoln City after picking up a knock a week earlier. It was the second time Tyson was left out the side this season. Tony Adams dropped him hoping it would help him rediscover his goalscoring touch after a barren period of two months without a goal - a statistic that contributed towards making Adams record as manager look so awful in its final months.
No reward
Ahead of the busy Christmas schedule, Brown believed the situation in front of goal was improving, but only an injury time leveller from centre-back Roger Johnson, wiped out moments afterwards, prevented a second blank in two games since Christmas Day.
"Earlier in the season, we tended to look a bit one-dimensional if Nathan Tyson wasn't getting on the end of things, but now we have other attacking options in Steve Guppy and full-back Tony Craig," said Brown.
At Macclesfield Gorman started with three strikers, making his attacking intentions clear, but it failed to pay off. Drewe Broughton started for the first time after missing the Southend game because of terms on his Wycombe contract. Broughton made his first appearance since completing a loan move from the Essex club against Lincoln eight days earlier - replacing Ian Stonebridge after 68 minutes. However it was Keith Ryan rather than one of the two tall strikers in the side who headed the game's winner from a Guppy corner late on. Craig Faulconbridge, the former Wrexham forward who missed most of the past two years of his career to injury is still waiting to register his first goal of the season.
"Broughton held the line well, Nathan missed a few, Danny had many efforts. None of the lads gave up," said Gorman after the 1-2 reverse at the Moss Rose.