Bromley returned from Meadow Park on Saturday with a hard earned point after being second best for long periods of the game.

Prior to the match Bromley manager Mark Goldberg had shuffled his pack, bringing in Danny Waldren for Reece Prestedge, Adam Birchall for Moses Ademola and Sam Higgins for Jamie Slabber.

However despite the changes Bromley were pinned back for large swathes of the first half unable to find a way past the Boreham Wood rearguard. Bromley’s only real chance of the first half was the first chance of the game, when good work down the Bromley right released Birchall whose snapshot was blocked by James Russell in the Boreham Wood goal.

That was as good as it got for Bromley as Boreham Wood proceeded to take a stranglehold on the game with their midfield workrate particularly impressive.

On 15 minutes Lee Angol shot narrowly wide after excellent work from Sam Cox and later in the half Austin Lipman was denied excellently by Seb Brown following a weaving run that took him past 3 Bromley players. As Bromley battled to weather the storm Ali Fuseini had to be alert to clear a Callum Reynolds header off the line.

Despite Boreham Wood ending the half in the ascendancy the two sides went in level at the break with Bromley the happier with the parity in the scoreline. Alas within ten minutes of the restart, Bromley failed to clear their lines from a long throw and Graeme Montgomery was able to profit with a sweetly struck volley from 18 yards out to put Boreham Wood into the lead.

Although going a goal ahead this did not signal a period of dominance by Boreham Wood if anything both sides proceeded to cancel each other out with one goal looking like it would be enough to decide the contest. On 65 minutes Joe Anderson had a free kick parried away but beyond their general competiveness Bromley continued to look short of ideas going forward.

The introduction of Moses Ademola and Louis Dennis were to prove the crucial ingredient as they added a bit more energy and directness to the play and from the former’s cross Danny Waldren was able to profit from James Russell’s spill to level the game.

With both teams now pushing for a winner it was Boreham Wood who were to have the last chance when Lee Angol headed wide from a Ben Nunn cross. As the full time whistle blew it was undoubtedly Bromley who were the happier with the share of the spoils and able to reflect on the point as a continuation of their positive start to the season.

Bromley line-up: Brown; Udoji, Anderson, Fuseini, Holland, Bailey-Dennis, Joseph-Dubois (Ademola 64), Waldren (c), Higgins (Scannell 58), Birchall, Grant (Dennis 67)

Subs (not used): Prestedge, Slabber.

Goal: Waldren 78

Boreham Wood line-up: Russell, Nunn, Morgan, Cox, Hill, Reynolds (c), Shakes, Thomas, Angol, Lipman (Whichelow 76), Montgomery.

Subs (not used): Noto,  Hope, M Holland, Courtnage.

Goal: Montgomery 54.

Referee: Mr J.Obrien

Star Man – Ricky Shakes (Boreham Wood)