TWO games, four points, one goal conceded. No wonder Tony Mount is enjoying life back at the Newport helm.

After inspiring Saturday's shock 2-1 win at Kettering, Mount presided over a solid-looking 0-0 stalemate with Weymouth at St George's Park last night.

The Island players trudged off the pitch dejected with a result that keeps them glued third to bottom of the Dr Martens Premier Division with four teams to drop.

But Mount, who has reclaimed the managerial reins for the rest of the season, was quietly content.

He said: "It was an even game, both sides had their chances and I think a draw was a fair result.

"That's four points we've taken from two top-ten teams and I thought we did really well last night considering we had no David Laws, Gary Green or Dave Wilson.

"We also had Dave Wakefield carried off with a turned ankle with ten minutes to go. All told, we've got eight or nine who need the physio, but we'll have to patch them all up and keep fighting."

Newport couldn't believe their bad luck in the first half when Lee Bradford's header was cleared off the line from Steve Moss's corner and then Wakefield's follow-up met with the same fate.

There was a similar sense of frustration after the break when Guy Whittingham controlled the ball inside the six-yard box but had his shot on the turn blocked.

Just over a week ago, Salisbury had the Premier Division life squeezed out of them in a dismal 3-0 home defeat by Crawley.

The relegated Whites were punished 4-0 by the same opponents in Sussex last night, who leapfrog Havant & Waterlooville into third.

Lee Doherty got Crawley's opener from a 57th-minute corner and then substitute Dave Stevens weighed in with a 22-minute hat-trick.

His second typified Whites' luck when Ben Madjwick's attempted clearance bounced off a player straight into Stevens' path.

"All the goals were down to mistakes," reflected Taffy Richardson.