Two cracking goals from striker Justin Nisbett and a super save by stand-in goalkeeper, manager Neil Kitching, kept Rushall Olympic among the league's frontrunners and left Drayton wondering just what they have to do to win a match.
The club have worked minor miracles recovering from a series of unexpected changes on and off the field this season with the much-changed squad now settling in and playing pretty well.
But the results still evade them - and manager Andy Pryce, for one, is getting a bit fed up with Lady Luck turning a cold shoulder. 
"When you consider what we've been though,we've done pretty well," he admitted after this game, adding: "But I was very disappointed today. We all felt we deserved at least a draw.
"We did not play as well as we would have liked but we were up against a good and we battled well against them without, again, very much luck."
Yet it all seemed so different at the start. Town were goal up in four minutes and on top of that, Rushall lost their only recognised goalkeeper too.
Town's faithful certainly thought their luck had turned when Paul Bowyer bundled them ahead from Gary Ainsworth's superbly flighted cross while keeper Chris Gemmill injured himself trying to keep the ball out.
But the incident brought into play Olympic manager Neil Kitching as emergency keeper - and with their boss bellowing at them from between the sticks, Rushall played out of their skins protecting him.
On the few occasions Town did get through, Kitching, who wasn't even a keeper in his playing days spent as much travelled striker around the non-League circuit during, added to Drayton's annoyance by pulling off some cracking, if unorthodox, saves.
The best came five minutes from time as Town, having been pegged back to 1-1 by livewire Justin Nisbett's 45th minute equaliser (what a time to score) were pushing forward impressively for a winner. He somehow diverted Dave Howarth's shot onto the bar and when the rebound fell to Jason Francis, he hoofed it wide. Three minutes later, speedy Nisbett, a menace to Town throughout, broke clear in another skilled solo run and slotted home a winner, keeping his side among the UniBond League South's top five clubs who are separated by just a point.
Town's disappointment that another feisty, encouraging display did not bring at least a point was heightened when Kitching admitted afterwards that he had only included himself as sub to make up the numbers.
"I had no intention of being on the bench here," he said. "I only put my name on the team sheet because we had some lads cry off... including our reserve goalkeeper.
"When Chris had to go off I put myself in goal because I didn't want to disrupt the team, who have been playing very well in recent games."