Huddesfield 1, Blackpool 1

Nov 1 2004 By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

ANY point away from home is not to be sneered at, but Town know they let Blackpool off the hook.

If first-half chances and dominance had been hammered home, Peter Jackson and 1,900 travelling fans would have been celebrating a fourth away win of the season.

Instead, they allowed big John Murphy to wipe out Andy Booth's 15th-minute header just six minutes after the re-start and had to defend like demons just to return with a point.

Jackson - who takes his team back to Bloomfield Road tomorrow night in the LDV Vans Trophy second round - was disappointed at the outcome but remains optimistic about how the campaign is unfolding.

"We are still building and we are still in a great position in the table," he said.

"Obviously we would have liked to have won, especially after the quality football we produced in the second half, but at least we didn't lose after letting Blackpool back into the game.

"It was important, without playing particularly well, that we came away with something for our efforts and that's at least one thing to be pleased about.

"The lingering frustration is that we know we should have had it all sewn up by half time.

"Boothy took his goal outstandingly well and, from the sort of delivery that Tony Carss provided, you would back him to score all day long, but we could easily have been two or three goals up and it would have been game over.