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The Palace boss though was disappointed that his side didn’t have the game won in the first half which they totally dominated and said after the game,
"It’s a strange atmosphere in the dressing room, because normally when you come away and get something you are pleased but today the atmosphere is one of disappointment.
"In the first half I thought it was total domination by us. I counted seven good chances in the first half alone and we let them back into it in the second half with them shooting down the hill. If we could have scored in the first half it would have tested their morale and the crowd too but by not scoring we gave them a chance to get back into it.
"We do need to score though and we had chances. In the second half when Adebola got to the byline he had two black shirts available to pass to but he picked out a Burnley shirt and that could have been the winner.
"After having lost all their matches the last thing they wanted was to come up against a team like ours and I am disappointed that we didn’t finish off the game in the first half. As the home team they were always going to come into the match and in the end I was pleased with the way we defended and restricted them to just two chances."
Stan was a relieved man to finally see that first point on the board and was also a lot happier with the performance than he had been at Reading although he did agree it wasn’t the best of games,
"It was a tight match and there wasn’t too much space but the players showed the right endeavour and commitment. There weren’t too many clear chances in the game but I thought we had a bang to rights penalty with Dimitri. I spoke to the referee and he says he never saw anything but that’s the stroke of luck we need.
"But we kept a clean sheet and we can go on from there but we are still better than that. One or two players are still not firing on all cylinders though."
He then went on to talk about some of the players,
"Dimitri Papadopoulos is still young and is learning all the time. He was tiring towards the end and had his nose busted but he did extremely well and I’m sure he will go on and score goals for us.
"Nik Michopoulos has also come in for a lot of criticism but I thought he was back to his best today and Mark McGregor has had a run in the side and shown what a good player he is."
"It was an ugly match but anyway it’s a point and we have now got something to build on - out of little acorns..."
A silver lining for Ternent
Lawrie Madden (Daily Telegraph)
Burnley battled to their first point of the season but still remain rooted at the bottom of the First Division table.
Despite this, managerStan Ternent believes that the glass is half full rather than half empty, highlighting Burnley's first clean sheet rather than reflect on the fact that it is 360 minutes since his side scored their only league goal of the season.
Ternent said: "It was an ugly match with not a lot of space but it's our first clean sheet and hopefully this is something we can build on."
Burnley gave a debut to Greek under-21 international Dimitrios Papadopoulos, alongside striker Gareth Taylorand the partnership showed potential, but a lack of creativity may prevent it from becoming a potent force.
Taylor almost got Burnley off to a dream start after only 20 seconds but fired overbut it was their other Greek player, goalkeeper Nik Michopoulos, who kept his side in the game in the first-half.
Twice he came to the rescue after Palace striker Dougie Freedman burst through on goal to deny the Scottish international.
In the second-half, Burnley came back into the game and Taylor almost scored the decider goal when his sweetly-struck shot just flashed past the post with Palace's goalkeeper Matt Clarke well beaten.