SIMON Grayson was pleased with another point on Saturday but admits Pool could have edged it at Selhurst Park.

The point took the Seasiders onto 50 for the season and the manager feels the team are getting ever nearer to safety, albeit at 'snails pace'. Larry even gave reference to cricket when giving his view on the push for survival.

On the Palace performance, he said: "We played some really good stuff and with a little bit more clinical edge to us in the final third, first half I think we could have been two or three up.

"We're getting there. I said it last week at Stoke, we got another point and we're getting there at a snails pace, but we just need another win really to make it all secure.

"We're playing ever so well, that's two games in twelve we've lost now, so there's a lot of positives to come out of it.

"We got to forty points pretty sharpish then we've got through the forties like a batsman in his nineties, a little bit nervous at times. But we've got over that fifty mark as a batsman gets over his hundreds and hopefully now we can go on a run and get to 53, 56 points as quickly as possible," he added.