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Saturday 30th August - Frickley Athletic 0-0 Hednesford Town

A game full of skilful passing, leading to end to end exchanges, lacked only one thing - a goal - and resulted in Frickley and Hednesford sharing the spoils.

Had there been more accuracy in finishing, the result would have provided a double-figured total and Blues manager Billy Heath will be looking for a way to end the scoring drought which is taking some of the shine off an encouraging start.

A long clearance by Adam Nicklin in the second minute was flicked on by Rob Pell to Neil Towler, who turned his man before drilling an angled 20 yard shot across the face of goal.

Nicklin got down to smother a low shot from Mark Briggs in the 17th minute, and did well two minutes later to catch a point blank header from Ross Dyer at the far post.

The home side thought they had scored after 20 minutes, Towler playing a slick one-two with Pell before beating Stuart Brock with a 25 yard scorcher but the ball came back off the bar, and Pell than sprayed a 20 yarder across the face of goal two minutes later.

There was another let-off for Town in the 29th minute, Brock slicing a clearance and Pell heading the ball back to Towler but he screwed his shot wide from 15 yards.

A corner kick dropped to Ross Draper who lashed a shot over from ten yards for the visitors, while Frickley responded, a long free-kick by Antony Jackson being headed down by Pell and Scott Brough fired a first time effort into the side netting.

Hednesford seemed sharper straight after the interval, Dyer racing onto a through pass in the 49th minute but lobbing both Nicklin and the goal before he completely missed the target again three minutes later after a low cross from Louie Brown.

Danny Walsh picked out Towler in the 64th minute, oinly for his shot to be blocked, while Towler ran onto a pass from Lee Morris in the 76th minute and fired goalwards but the ball bounced off Brock's legs.

A cross from Walsh in the 80th minute was parried by the visiting keeper and Brough's shot from the rebound was turned off the line by Danny Harvey.

Elliott Durrell fired wide after being set up by an accurate cross from Anthony Maguire two minutes later, and the tale of missed chances continued to the end, Jackson crossing in the 90th minute for Morris to launch a flying header which soared over the bar.

Frickley Athletic : Adam Nicklin, Scott Brough, Chris Gowen, Danny Walsh, Antony Jackson, Phil Lindley, Chris Hilton, Jonathan Groome, Lee Morris, Rob Pell, Neil Towler (Adam Lee 88min). Unused subs. Steve Robinson, Chris Davies, Chris White, Jon, Hood

Hednesford Town : Stuart Brock, Sean Platt, Anthony Maguire (Ludvic Quistin 83min), Decio Gomes, Danny Harvey, Tom Marshall, Mark Briggs (Elliott Durrell 75min), Louie Briscoe (Chad Sheppard 62min), Tyrone Barnett, Ross Dyer, Ross Draper. Unused subs. Chris Morris, Scott Stamps

Referee : Mr R Atkin

Attendance : 329