Thackley 1, Buxton 1: Thackley's stuttering end to their Northern Counties East Premier Division campaign continued when they were held to a home draw by relegation-threatened Buxton at Dennyfield.

Assistant manager Warren Fletcher was again in charge from the dugout with player-manager Andy Taylor in the thick of the action and he felt the players were lulled into a false sense of superiority.

"We played well in the first 15 to 20 minutes when we were all over them.

"But sometimes you can start too well, and our lads took their foot off the gas," he said.

"They must have thought it was going to be easy and they sat back.

"We ended up going behind but we went straight back up the other end and levelled. That should have been our alarm call but we still didn't kill the game off.

"I'm not taking anything away from Buxton because they were a hard side to break down.

"They defended well, teams down there are going to battle for everything and they gave us a hard game."

Thackley midfielder Ian Briggs was desperately unlucky not to open the scoring in the 12th minute.

He struck a volley that was arrowing towards the top corner but Buxton keeper Mick Johnson made a fantastic leap to turn it over for a corner.

The Derbyshire side took the lead against the run of play just before the half hour after an error from home keeper Richard Cornwall.

He failed to control a backpass from James Riley and James Dooley nipped in to score.

Thackley immediately launched a searing attack and though Ben Jones and Danny Toronczak had shots blocked, the half clearance that followed fell to Amjad Iqbal and he thundered a shot from the edge of the area past the despairing Johnson.