W Connection FC rarely look really bad on the field, but they didn't exactly sparkle either on the opening night of the season-ending T&T Pro League Lucozade Big Six, which produced two "thrill-less" goalless draws in Friday's double-header at the Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya.
Veteran Trinidad and Tobago defender Brent Sancho had a good chance to give Stars the lead when getting a clear sight at keeper Alejandro Figueroa from wide right. But the 2006 World Cup defender was slow on the trigger and would have ended up dead at the OK Corral.
By the time Sancho managed to shoot, defenders were in to block him, while Anthony Wolfe, who also went to the 2006 World Cup with Trinidad and Tobago, some how managed to get in the way of a sizzling shot from a teammate and did the work of the Joe Public defenders by turning away the goal-bound strike.
Joe Public looked a tired, uncreative bunch and mustered little apart from a 30-metre shot by Jamaican striker Roen Nelson which went close to scoring.
The feature match, involving W Connection and Neal & Massy Caledonia AIA, two teams which traditionally like to stroke the ball around, promised much, but delivered little.
Maybe it's the importance of the final round of league competition, which broke AIA last season when they could not buy a match down the stretch. On Friday, Caledonia AIA were tight and W Connection less adventurous than is normal.
It was the perfect formula for a stalemate.
But there were goals in Friday's third game, at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, where CLICO San Juan Jabloteh beat United Petrotrin 2-0, with Cornell Glen and Trent Noel on target.