A heavily depleted Southbank had a miserable day as error after error were penalised by a Caversham Albion side who took great pleasure in the flattering scoreline.

Despite Southbank debuts for Lee Didcock, Mark Broomfield, Andrew Hyslop and substitute Seamus Smith the Southbank squad was stretch to the limits with no less than 6 players missing (Kemp, Bradbury, Brown, Towner, Thurgood, Price, Rodgers and Fitzpatrick) from recent weeks.  This produced a disjointed performance that was littered with defensive mistakes and misplaced passes.

The game seemed all but dead as last weeks man of the match James Spokes gifted Albion the first goal when he dropped a soft shot into the path of the Albion forward after 5 minutes.  A second was added when a cross from the Albion left picked out the same forward to beat Bryce Bellman in the air and loop a header over Spokes who got tried to get to the cross but couldn't get there.  A 3-0 lead soon followed as another cross from the left back looped into the top corner for fluke third.

Southbank battled back through Ricky Gales first of the day and two further goalkeeping errors at the other end.  A Gale free kick from the right went in off the keepers chest at the near post before Lee Didcock capped a good performance on his debut by firing the equaliser past a well out of position goalkeeper following a ball over the top of a very static Albion defence.  

A fourth Albion goal before half time should have served as a warning for Southbank as an Albion goal fest followed the half time break.

With Albion always a threat from set pieces Southbank struggled to defend as a team and Spokes was left picking the ball out of the net a further 6 times during a half that everyone will be looking to forget in a hurry.

Team: Spokes, Booth, Hyslop (Smith), Madden, Bellman, Holloway (Hands), Broomfield, Gale, Smalley, Holton, Didcock