Matthew Wilkinson made a welcome return to the defence in place of the suspended Dean Jones but Leroy Chambers was missing through illness and Ian Edge was unavailable due to work commitments.

On a quagmire of a pitch Frickley played the first half kicking down the slope but into a strong gusty wind. Both teams struggled to get to grips with the conditions early on but Chris Hurst almost drew first blood for Frickley after 3 minutes when his low 30 yard shot went just wide after Gary Duffty had knocked the ball back to him. Stanley struck back with Andy Carney being forced to save a low hot by their no. 9 after 13 minutes and a minute later Carney tipped a 30 yard free-kick over the bar. Frickley rallied and dominated most of the rest of the half and almost took the lead on 20 minutes but Hurst's header from Lee Stratford's corner came back off the crossbar. On 28 minutes Rob Hanby went close with a 20 yard shot which curled just wide of the right hand post but three minutes later Frickley did take the lead. Chris Hilton played the ball down the right where Duffty broke clear and pulled the ball back to Hanby on the edge of the box but as he struggled to control the ball GRAHAM LEWIS turned and struck the loose ball into the bottom left hand corner from just inside the box. The nearest the home side came to scoring in the rest of the half was two minutes into added time when Carney did well to push a low free-kick around the post.

For most of the second half Frickley looked the most likely side to add to the scoreline. Hanby ought to have increased the lead on 48 minutes when he met a corner by Stratford with a powerful header which grazed the outside of the right hand post and then Andy Gregory saw the Stanley 'keeper well off his line and hit a 40 yard shot which skimmed the top of the bar with the 'keeper well beaten. However, as the game entered the last fifteen minutes the home side began to look more threatening. Carney did brilliantly to block a shot when he was left in a one on one situation with a Stanley forward on 75 minutes but two minutes later he was powerless as the home side forced in the equaliser from close range after the Frickley defence failed to clear from a free-kick. To make matters worse, Steve Price was carried off on a stretcher following a challenge on half way on 84 minutes but Frickley managed to hold out for a point which really could, and should, have been three.

Frickley Athletic : Carney, Hilton, Matt. Wilkinson, Gregory, Ogley, Hanby, Lewis, Price (Brown 84), Duffty, Hurst, Stratford. Unused subs. Smith, Mark Wilkinson.

Attendance : 511 (Presumably they counted everyone on the way out as well!)