Town boss George Burley mourned a litany of missed chances during Sunday's 0-0 draw at Preston. The Blues created enough openings to get the three points but couldn't convert them.

The Town boss told the club site: "We have to look at the game as two points dropped.

"We made all the clear cut chances, maybe four or five and should have taken one of them.

"On another day Darren Ambrose might have had a hat-trick and we hit the woodwork twice but it wouldn't go in for us.

"The team did enough to win the match and they kept going right to the end, which is to their credit after four games in eight days, but we have to be disappointed to take just one point.

"If we carry on creating chances like that though we will score goals and win many more games."

Earlier in the weekend Burley had agreed to allow Marcus Bent to go on loan to Birmingham, however, the player turned down the the move.

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