The athletic midfielder looked to have scored the winner after rounding goalkeeper Ross Worner in the final minute, only to see Woking’s Tony Sinclair slide in to make an unbelievable clearance off the line.

The visitors had the best efforts on goal but Weymouth reached double figures by holding on to a point, that could easily have been all three, to lift them within five points of the Blue Square South safety line.

Rose was deemed fit enough to start despite his knee injury picked up at Bishop’s Stortford on Saturday, but Chris Allen missed out through flu meaning David Obaze returned from suspension to partner Scott Brice at the heart of the defence.

That also saw Jamie McGuinness pushed into midfield while Jamie Frampton moved out to right back.

Weymouth had next to no possession in the opening seven minutes but it was at the end of that seventh minute that the Terras’ Jake Reid fired the opening shot in, driving well over from 20 yards.

However, it was Weymouth’s Ryan Harrison who was the first goalkeeper into action in the 13th minute when he made an agile full-stretch save from Harry Arter’s curling effort and then scrambled down low to his left to deny Giuseppe Sole just two minutes later.

The home side began to assert some pressure of their own with about 20 minutes gone and Simon Radcliffe curled a free-kick wide from a central position before good work between Josh Llewellyn and Matt Groves ended with the latter curling across the face of goal.

That pressure came to an end four minutes before the break when Martin Slocombe gifted possession to Moses Ademola eight yards out, but the Woking winger slashed high and wide from an angle when a pass across the face of goal would surely have resulted in the opener.

Sole nearly got the breakthrough with a moment of inspiration on the stroke of half-time when he cut in from the left and forced Harrison to push his shot over.

It was the same player who forced Harrison into another smart stop seven minutes after the break.

Rose’s failure to control allowed Sole to burst through the middle of the defence, only for Harrison to move sharply to his left and parry the shot from the Cards’ top scorer.

Rose volleyed over the top before Groves had a left-foot curler well held at full stretch by Woking custodian Ross Worner to record the Terras’ first shot on target.

Visiting manager Graham Baker responded by replacing his front two – Luke Medley and Charlie Moone coming on for Sole and Sam-Yorke.

Mitchell Bryant, who had been the visitors’ first substitute, barely troubled Harrison with a tame shot that the Weymouth keeper collected low down to his right.

Reid felt aggrieved not to have had the chance to net the winner with seven minutes left when he ran free on goal and was flagged offside.

Unfortunately the assistant was on the far side of the pitch and may have thought that Llewellyn, who was in an offside pitch, was interfering with play even though Reid was onside.

Harrison then had to make an outstanding stop from Moone, pushing the substitute Woking striker’s effort on to the woodwork. The assistant’s flag went up so it would not have counted but the Terras’ stopper would not have been aware of that at the time of his block.

The Wessex Stadium nearly erupted in the final minute when Cards’ skipper John Boardman left a high bouncing ball and Rose nipped in, beat Worner to the bounce and shoot, only to see Tony Sinclair slide in and clear the ball away just inches from the goal-line.

Two corners followed as did an extra four minutes full of Terras pressure but the grandstand finish did not quite happen as Weymouth picked up a very creditable point.