John Gregg's side created undoubtedly the best effort of a lukewarm first half when, on 42 minutes, Ryan McCreadie somehow failed to find the target from a few yards out ater Ryan Semple delivered the ball across the face of goal.

Austin McCann broke the deadlock for City seven minutes into the second half when he tapped home the follow-up after Conor Forker's header from a Peter McNeill free-kick was pushed out.

However, 'Stute levelled start from the restart when Kyle Moran bundled the ball home after a Ryan McCreadie header came back off an upright.

City did have the ball in the net again with a quarter-of-an-hour remaining only for Forker's effort to be ruled out offside.