Farsley Celtic 2, Brigg Town 2: A half-time reshuffle brought about a stunning strike from veteran Martin Regan and ensured Farsley Celtic lived to fight another day for the right to reach the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup.

Brigg Town, their visitors from the Northern Counties East Premier Division on Saturday, played their full part in a thrilling see-saw encounter at Throstle Nest and will no doubt be looking forward to taking on Celtic again on Wednesday.

The Lincolnshire club took the scalp of Celtic's UniBond Division One rivals Gretna in the last round and will be convinced they can repeat history.

Haresign's Celtic, however, will have a different view after a tactical change which rescued their Cup campaign. With Celtic turning round 2-1 down, Haresign decided to act.

"It was no good sitting there for another 15 or 20 minutes still trailing," he said. "If a change was needed it had to be done as soon as possible. It worked in the short term and we could have won the game after that.

"But they could also have gone through in this game, Liam Sutcliffe had to make some great saves to keep us in it. Most of their chances came from headers so that is something we will be looking at before Wednesday.

"We were off par and didn't seem to get going, but even though we didn't play well we are still in it. They will probably think the hard work is done and they have got us back to their place.

"But we have taken something from this game and we must use it to our advantage. There are options for us and that was proved by the substitution on Saturday. Danny Spence has come on late and also caused them problems so there will definitely be changes to the line-up for the replay."

Haresign's decision was a brave one which, having worked, will be seen as a masterstroke. Though this defence was playing well he took Lee Connor off, replaced him in the centre of defence with Damien Henderson - who had played the first half as a striker - and sent Regan into the fray.

Less than four minutes later Regan repaid the boss's faith with a wonderful scissor type volley that rippled the back of the net and ultimately gave Celtic a second chance.

That lifeline was needed after Celtic had conceded a lead and turned round a goal down.

Striker Chris Newton, one of seven players restored to Celtic's line-up after being rested for the midweek UniBond Cup derby with Bradford Park Avenue, sent the home fans into raptures when he turned a Richard Hepworth corner into the roof of the net midway through the first half.

Brigg rallied and equalised in the 24th minute when visiting captain Dave Blanchard headed against the face of Sutcliffe's bar only to see the ball rebound onto the keeper's back and over the line.

With less than two minutes to go until the break Brigg put themselves in pole position when Rob Nevis met a corner from Simon Roach to net with a powerful header.