Lincs Echo
Saturday's goal-less draw at in-form Blyth Spartans made it nine clean sheets in a row for the Pilgrims in Blue Square Bet North.
It saw United pull further away from their previous best run of shutouts, six, set during the 1976/77 season.
You would expect Boston joint-manager Rob Scott, a proud centre-half in his playing days, to be ecstatic about such an achievement.
But Scott, a man who lives firmly in the present, cut a disgruntled figure during his post-match address to the media following one of Boston's most uninspiring performances of the season.
"It is a fantastic achievement, I'm not detracting from that, but if you're not winning you might as well lose a game and win one, than draw three," grumbled Scott, who preferred to focus on United's lack of threat at the other end.
"It's all right keeping clean sheets, but if you're not scoring goals, you're not winning games.
"I'm not just pointing the finger at the forwards, we want our wide players and our midfielders chipping in and our centre-halves attacking the ball from free-kicks and corners.
"The delivery and movement in the box was terrible. At the start of the season we were scoring on a regular basis from set-plays, but it's not happening now."
A goal-less draw was the most Boston deserved from a contest which started promisingly, but deteriorated as the 90 minutes progressed.
"I'm not happy to be honest," said Scott, whose side have failed to find the net in three of their last five league games.
"The clean sheet is a bonus, but apart from that there were very few highlights for us.
"We weren't particularly positive going forward, there was no real creativity. No one stamped their authority on the game and got hold of the ball and passed it.
"At times we did it, but then decided to just keep pumping it into the corners. We told the players that there comes a point when they have to start thinking about how they play the game, rather than just doing it in neutral mode.
"Teams are going to get men behind the ball against us, soak up pressure and try to hit us on the break.
"Blyth rarely hurt us, other than when we were pushing forward. We'd then make a wrong decision and they'd break on us.
"That's the frustrating thing. Teams aren't hurting us, we're doing it to ourselves at the moment.
"The way Blyth came off the pitch (to a standing ovation from the home supporters), they felt it was two points dropped for us.
"We've got to start scoring some goals. The quality wasn't there. Things broke down in the final third because no one was decisive enough.
"The wingers, Semps (Ryan Semple) did all right at times, but Yatesy (Jamie Yates) was nowhere near it, and he's been told that.
"Newy (Marc Newsham) went out wide late on. He's one of the most composed players at this level, but even he was slashing at things.
"They've got to start thinking about how they play the game, how the situation is evolving on the pitch.
"That might sound harsh because we've kept another clean sheet, but if they want to keep improving and move up the ladder, they've got to learn fast."
United's best moments came in the first half. Semple was inches wide with a delicate chip after dispossessing dawdling Blyth full-back Dan Groves.
Semple turned provider moments later when his low cross was met by Danny Davidson, whose close range shot appeared to strike the arm of Wayne Buchanan, but referee Mark Coy turned down Boston's boisterous appeals for a penalty.
Yates then ended one of the visitors' few decent moves by stinging the palms keeper Mark Gillespie with a 20-yard drive.
But the confident home side, who went into the game on the back of three straight victories, looked just as likely to break the deadlock.
However, they were kept at bay by United's watertight defence, which will attempt to make it 10 league clean sheets in a row at home to Corby tomorrow night (7.45pm).
