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Wilsher; Warren (Cuthbert 66), Turner, M.Jones, Birmingham; Woodward (Collis 82), Hayes, Chapman, Spurway; Spicer (Austin 70), Lindsey: Cotton, Gundry.
First chance to Town after 6 minutes as Lindsey sent a powerful header just too high.
Chapman then shot narrowly wide before a slip by Turner gave Hardiman a chance but he missed the target.
Spurway did well to cut out a diagonal pass but his header left Wilsher struggling and strong appeals for handling outside the area were turned down.
Spicer battled to win the ball from two defenders and made space to hit a low shot that Wheeler held at the second attempt.
From a Woodward corner the ball skimmed off Turner's head and dropped wide.
After dominating most of the opening half-hour, Town could have gone behind twice in a minutes. Both times sloppy defending gave the ball to Jenkin with only Wilsher to beat but both times he tamely shot straight at the keeper.
Town survived and started to catch the home side on the break. A powerful run by Spicer saw him drive deep into the area where he spurned the chance to shoot but his attempted pass was nowhere near Lindsey waiting for the tap-in.
Woodward then got through and delivered a better cross but Spicer couldn't get enough head on the ball.
A tremendous run from Spurway ended with a fizzing ground-shot that beat the keeper but unfortunately went a foot wide of the post leaving the half scoreless.
H.T. 0-0
Town opened up the second period at a blistering pace and a goal seemed only a matter of time.
Spurway had a shot from 10 yards blocked by a defender's backside, Spicer sent a diving-header wide and Earl just got a touch when Lindsey's head seemed certain to put the ball in the net.
Town continued to pin back the home side as Chapman headed wide from another excellent Woodward corner and then only a brilliant tackle by Ward prevented Lindsey from applying the finishing touch from 6 yards.
Then just as in the first-half Town seemed to fall asleep and could easily have fallen behind. The ball criss-crossed Town's area before Mockridge finally sent a flashing drive across the face of the goal and out of play.
There were more chances for Town as an angled cross from Cuthbert just evaded Lindsey at the back-post and then Lindsey got through on the left but Wheeler saved by trapping the ball painfully between his legs.
As the game entered stoppage-time there was utter panic in the Totton six-yard box as a Hayes shot from close-range flicked off the keeper and over the bar but somehow the ref saw it as a goal-kick?
The man-in-black had a pretty good game until stoppage-time but he managed to miss two handballs in the Totton area (one of them pretty clear-cut) and then waved play on when Cuthbert was fouled only to the then book the Fareham man for a harmless tackle.
On chances alone Town should have won comfortably but if you don't put the ball in the net....

Excellent report Gary. Completley agree that we should have won. An away point at a team going well. Our disappointment shows how far we have come. Well done to the team. Never gave up. Good performance.

Only additional piece of information missing is that Tony White won the train Sweep stake.

There were 13 trains - Tony's guess was 17.