DARLINGTON regretted missed chances again as they only picked up a point from their game with Rushall at Dales Lane.

Quakers controlled nearly all of the game, but they couldn’t put the match to bed when they were in front early in the second half, which means they’re still without an away league win this season in six attempts. They’ve been to Rushall on three occasions now and still haven’t won.

Assistant manager Terry Mitchell said: “We thought we could get amongst Rushall, and we did. We created a lot of chances in the first half, but we didn’t work their keeper enough, only once. Second half, we worked him more and he pulled off two excellent saves and we had two cleared off the line.

“There was real frustration in the dressing room that we hadn’t killed the game off. The real positives were that we created 20 shots in the game and had about 25 crosses into the box, so we’re creating enough, but not finishing teams off. We dominated the game in general, but when you’re on top in any game, you’ve got to score.

“On another day, you’d like to think that we’d get all three points.”

Quakers controlled most of the first half, but didn’t really test the Rushall keeper, Paul White. They forced four corners inside the first ten minutes but only had off target headers from Elliot Forbes and Toby Lees to show for it.

They also had two free-kicks in dangerous positions on the edge of the box which came to nothing, while Will McGowan fired straight at the keeper and Will Hatfield put another effort wide. Debutant Ali Alshabeeb also got into some dangerous positions, but overall there was little end product.

Quakers took a deserved lead just after half-time when skipper Scott Barrow, on his return from injury, took a quick throw in and released Andrew Nelson into the box, and the striker half-volleyed the ball past White into the net for his third goal of the season.

After Terrell Pennant had an effort saved by Peter Jameson, Quakers nearly went 2-0 up when Barrow’s free-kick was cleared as far as Elliot Forbes, whose effort was blocked just a couple of yards out.

The same happened again five minutes later with another Barrow free-kick, when this time the ball fell for Jack Maskell, whose powerful shot was saved at full stretch by White.

And another chance went begging when Lees headed an inswinging corner kick by Maskell wide of the target.

Quakers paid the penalty for those misses on 72 minutes when an effort by Luke Benbow was blocked, and the ball fell nicely for fellow sub Danny King to fire past Jameson.

However, they nearly regained the lead when McGowan played the ball into the box for sub Cedric Main to beat the advancing keeper, but a defender got back and cleared off the line.

Lees put another header wide from an inswinging Barrow corner, but there was a nagging feeling at the other end when Gerry McDonagh broke into the box and Jameson saved at his feet.

But White came to his side’s rescue in stoppage time when Main got round the back of the defence and crossed perfectly for new loan signing Caden Kelly to volley towards goal, but the keeper saved well.

Meanwhile, Quakers are waiting for confirmation from the league about their game at Farsley Celtic, which is due to take place on Saturday,  November 2.  As yet, Quakers haven’t been informed when where the game is going to take place.

On Friday night, Spennymoor won 3-0 against Farsley Celtic at their temporary home of Bradford Park Avenue to put them into tenth place in the table. Glen Taylor (2) and Rob Ramshaw scored the goals.