Town manager Simon Line accused his men of never getting out of first gear in this disappointing FA Trophy draw - while club chairman Alex Mutch heaped praise upon his volunteer stewards for the way they dealt with a group of rowdy, booze laden Bamber Bridge supporters.
The group broke through a bordering hedge into Town's ground, mixing in with a contingent of true Bamber Bridge fans who had paid at the turnstyles  - and refused to budge when club chairman Alex James, a retired Army major, gave them marching orders.
Police called to evict the 20-plus gang instead settled for penning them into a corner stand where they remained, openly drinking, waving cans and bottles, as Town and Bridge struggled to an unbelievably scrappy draw. 
But before the nine-strong police contingent - and dogs - arrived Town's ground stewards had to keep a lid on things - and that, said chairman Mutch, they achieved brilliantly.
"They were brilliant dealing with what was a totally unexpected problem," he said. "They were confronted by an imposing group - many of them pretty big, well on the way to having drunk too much and some were determined to have their own way."
Town wanted the police to eject the group but, considering the potential problems of them wandering into town, agreed to let them stay, penned into one stand while police kept guard.
Chairman Mutch added: "The police made sure the group stayed in one corner of the ground rather than evict them to go into the town and we fully understand their reasons for wanting to take that option."
One Town wag considered that letting the group stay was rough justice for the match itself was a punishment for the viewers; by far the most uninspiring seen at Greenfields this season.
Manager Line didn't mince his words: "It was all pretty dire," he said. "Our worst performance of the season by far. 
"We had plenty of excuses - several of our players were not too well with a tummy bug and the wind, rain and greasy pitch made good football difficult.
"But the truth of the matter is that we just didn't get out of first gear. We looked flat from start to finish and never really gave them much to worry about."
A disputed penalty from Phil Eastwood on 64 minutes earned Bamber Bridge the right to a replay which was to be on Tuesday but had to be postponed because of a waterlogged Bamber Bridge pitch. There

were doubts about the penalty - given when Drayton's Grant Goodhead and Bridge's Ashley Dunn collided in midair going for Eastwood's cross - but the result was about right.
Neither side could find any sort of form in a mistake-littered, tough, yet strangely passionless cup tie, although Drayton missed two good chances before Tom Ward put them ahead in the 44th minute with a well taken shot.
Apart from one hectic melee in the Bridge penalty area, when Ward and Duncan Horler got bogged down with goalkeeper Mike Hale and a group of defenders just a couple of metres from their target, Town rarely troubled the opposition.
Martyn Davies fired one wide after the break and Tom Rogers's running posed some problems but real goal threats were rare - and that applied to Bamber Bridge too. 
They put together some promising attacks in the first half but the end product was normally one pass too many, playing into the hand's of Drayton's rearguard.
After police had released Bamber Bridge's break-in brigade, shepherding them back to their bus, which was given a patrol car escort out of town, the club's officials apologised for what had happend, stressing that they had no control over the unwanted invaders. The sad thing, they said, was that several had paid to get into the ground and they were being condemned by the actions of others.
Club secretary Geoff Wright said that while the group came from Bamber Bridge area, they had nothing to do with the football club. 
"The people who broke in are not club supporters; you'll not see them at our home matches," he said. Another member of the Bamber Bridge party said that the the group turned up at an away match once a season and this invariably posed a problem.
"We understand that they came to this match to celebrate a birthday of some sort but why we don't know; they are really nothing to do with us," he said.
"They are not on our bus. They organise their own transport and, thankfully, appear only to come to one away game a season. 
"We do not know which match it will be so we were as surprised as anyone when they turned up here."