BURNLEY manager Steve Cotterill admitted he was delighted to leave Colchester United with a point and a clean sheet.

The Clarets boss believes the performance at Layer Road is a solid platform to build on as his side seek to earn their first win since November 28.

And he feels it is only a matter of time until they put an end to their winless run.

"I thought we looked solid and I didn't think we looked like we were going to concede a goal, which was a bonus," Cotterill said.

"We knew it was going to be a tight game down here, very tough, as their home form has suggested this season.

"So it's a difficult place to come and get a result. But we've done that.

"Andy Gray thinks he might have had a penalty, but at the risk of repeating myself we don't get those.

"He thought he had a tug first of all, and then a clip.

"I was going to say some you get and some you don't but it's more like we don't.

"It's not a big issue for us. We're just happier with how solid we were.

"It's the sort of resolve I want from day one. It's the sort of resolve I want from when they sign for the club. It's just you can't always do that.

"They're human beings. They make mistakes like all of us.

"I thought the strikers were a bit better again. We're just looking for them to finally nick that goal and have good performances out of them, because when they do, they'll go on to score more.

"It would have been nice if we could have maybe had another chance. It might have been a set play that nicked another goal, or it might have been a penalty that nicked the win.

"We know that, but likewise we would say we restricted them. But I thought the back four were solid."

Cotterill hopes his side get the chance to build on this performance and not suffer the same fate as they did after their 0-0 draw at Southampton last month.

"What we don't need now, the last time we had a good performance away from home, which was Southampton, we went back home and the game was off.

"The performances have been better by our lads and thoroughly deserved three points the other night against Leicester and more than deserved our point here.

"It is something for us to build on. There is a bigger picture here but we still need immediates.

"Without a short-term plan there's never a long term-one. So our short-term plan is to be better again to try to get three points, and our long-term plan is to be better, wholly, as a club."