Riding high on the back of two successive high-scoring wins, the Dons came back to earth with a bump today, with a no-score draw at Meadow Park.

There were three changes in the starting line up from the one that demolished Slough last weekend. Lee O'Leary was serving the first game of his three-match ban, with Luke Garrard stepping in to replace him, while fit-again Jermaine Darlington and Andy Little replaced Lewis Cook and Clark Masters respectively. Dave Anderson's intentions seemed evident with two strikers and a wide midfielder joining the returning Steve Butler on the bench. Meanwhile, Roscoe Dsane was absent due to family illness.

A crowd of about 1,100 saw the Dons start by attacking the end populated by their own fans and, in the early stages, there were hopeful signs. Boreham Wood struggled to get the ball out of their own half and, with sweetly-orchestrated moves surging down the right in particular, it looked as if a goal must come. But, not for the first time this season, the Dons flattered to deceive. At least half a dozen times in the first half either Sweeney or Wales got behind the full back and then failed to cross the ball further than the defender at the near post.

With Jolly and Ferguson competing for the Darren Huckerby award for the most offsides in one game, the team and the fans gradually became frustrated. For once, no-one could blame the pitch, which ran as true as any surface the Dons have played on this season.

Tempers became frayed as the pernickety referee kept the game from flowing (but what might we expect from a man with the letters 'REF' emblazoned on his car number plate - presumably he wouldn't be able to get one long enough to embrace some of the names he was called). He booked Daly for a decent tackle and Williams for rushing towards a Garrard corner and blocking it with his hand - with extraordinarily eccentric reasoning, he placed the resultant free kick more than 10 yards from the corner kick. The writer had more sympathy when the crowd and the away dugout railed at him for preventing the Dons from taking a quick free kick while he checked that the returning Bangura's head had stopped bleeding. The complaint seemed to be that, by doing so, he stopped Wimbledon from keeping an opposition player off the pitch for an even longer time.

Was there any football action' Only a mis-directed cross that sailed over Andy Little's head and rebounded from the crossbar and a full-stretch toe poke from Steve Ferguson that scraped the bar, after he had latched onto Paul Lorraine's downward header.

By half time, Boreham Wood had sussed the Dons' tactics and after the re-start they staunched the leakage down their left flank. They also cut off Andy Little's thrown clearances, designed to allow a more studied build up, and forced him to launch the ball more often. And we all know how many of those our dimunitive strikers win in the air. As a result of this, there was even less goal area action than in the first half, except for a last-ditch Lorraine challenge that deflected a Boreham Wood shot over the bar and a couple of hopeful long-range efforts from Wimbledon.

Eventually, Ferguson and then Jolly were replaced by Richard Butler and Ryan Peters respectively, Ferguson, as always, displaying his fierce commitment and almost having to be dragged off the pitch by Dave Anderson. Butler soon showed that his long lay off had not dulled his appetite for chasing long, hopeless balls down the wings, but neither he nor Peters was able to make much impression. All four forwards used today could reasonably complain that they can't score if they aren't given a sniff of a chance due to poor delivery.

Finally, Lewis Cook came on for the tiring Steve Wales. The crowd must have been hoping he would deliver a Heybridge-style late winner from a free kick, not least to take their minds off his new hairstyle, which was a delicate shade of vermillion. If they were, then it hadn't occurred to the players who, when the Dons won a free kick in just the right place, decided to take a quick one instead. In fact, decisions on the pitch were poor all game; Jermaine Darlington was just too cool on the ball near his own penalty area and nearly gifted Boreham Wood a goal, while the Dons broke away three or four times with more attackers than defenders, but each time the move ended with a poor pass or a hopeful shot when there were men better placed (and more qualified) to score.

Before today's game, Boreham Wood were top of the form table and so a point ought to feel like a good result. But most fans seemed to leave the ground disappointed, with the dream of a late run of seven successive wins now blown and increasing acceptance that a play-off place is the best we can now hope for. However, in a league where the team we beat 9-0 can come within a couple of minutes of beating Margate only a week later, who knows what might still happen before the end of the season?