KIERAN Djilali eased Dons dicey league position with his first of the season on 85 minutes - but anybody buying a DVD of the match might think about getting out more.

A classic it was not - a vital three points it most certainly was. But there was doubt about a first win in 10 right up to the death when keeper Seb Brown stopped a point-blank header from Rob Edmans down by his near post.

Djilali side-footed a volley at the back post that had no right to creep in under keeper Jonathan Bond, but the keeper made a terrible hash of the shot much to the delight of nearly 4,000 fans. 

Before that, Jack Midson picked up the ball by the edge of the box on 73 minutes to curl a shot over and beyond the keeper into the nearside top corner.

Practically every other attempt on target before that was more hope than hit, exemplified by a dreadful miss from Edmans a minute before slap bang in front of goal.

But there were much closer things from Dagenham before Michael Spillane poached a header at the back post to level the game.

Daggers' Ben Reeves had earlier made a half-volley look harder than it was when he skied a ball over the stand and onto the running track when unmarked in the box.

Byron Harrison was also looking to the heavens when he failed to get a proper connection to a Christian Jolley cross 20 minutes later, and Sammy Moore's shot from distance caused more problems to the garden behind the stand than the keeper.

Brian Woodall's wayward connection when set up 15 yards from Dons' goal summed a desperate first half where neither team could impose themselves.

But a ball over the top left Harrison in space on the left. He elected to fire first time and bring a save gathered second time by the keeper - but a second's composure might have been produced more for the Dons hitman.

Harrison was inches away from Sam Hatton's inviting ball into the box straight after the restart, but Rashid Yussuf is still wondering how he didn't score when he first hit the post and then brought a great close stop from Bond on the rebound.

Next to miss when it was easier to hit the target was Billy Bingham, when the D&R midfielder headed over unchallenged from 10 yards. 

Brown made his first save of the game when he diverted Jon Nurse's sharp turn and shot away for a corner, but he pulled out all the stops to bring a chorus of alleluia out of the Dons loudspeakers on the final whistle.