Return to Winning Ways   Southbank returned to winning ways with a 5-1 victory over Black Boy on Sunday at Coley Park. After several weeks off due to the bad weather the players welcomed the opportunity for a run out, although the pitch was a little frozen at kick off and did put some doubt in the mind of the referee. Despite missing a number of key players including Ollie, Mig, Gale, Luke and Raph the Bank were able to field a strong team with plenty of attacking options. These attacking options paid dividends early on, the Bank set about their opponents down the flanks and using the pace which is becoming a trade mark of this year’s team. With Donal and Jason occupying the central midfield berths, Tully, Woodrow, Benji and Archie were able to exploit the space provided by the Black Boy to good effect. Charlie Cook also made his first team debut in goal and produced an assured display with plenty of communication and good handling when called into action. It didn’t take long for the opening goal to come, a number of raids had failed to deliver the goal but then a simple through ball enabled Benji to race on and slot past the keeper to provide a perfect start for the bank. The pitch was providing a challenge as the weather of the past weeks had provided a difficult surface for both teams to get the ball down and pass. This is probably the only defence for Hightower who was slow to react to a simple ball over the top and ended up in a one on one race with the Black Boy striker. The end result both players ended up on the floor, 30 yards from goal. Hightower was lucky to stay on the pitch as the referee took leniency and only produced a yellow when a red card may have been more appropriate. Apart from this the Bank continued to pour forward and three other goals came in the first half, Benji profiting from a mistake by their keeper to register his second, Archie opening his account for the year and Donal lobbing home from 25 yards to give the Bank a commanding lead. The Bank was even able to hit the crossbar through Wayne Tully’s shot and allow Archie the opportunity to produce a Ronny Rosenthal moment. Still the Bank came into the half-time break happy with the 45 minutes work and ready to relax and play football. However the second half was a rather dull affair as the pitch and the reality that the game was dead and buried inevitably lead to a non-eventful half. There were two goals in this half mind, the first a consolation for the Black Boy after the hour, a simple ball over the top, again the defence a little slow to read the ball and the striker nipping in and finishing from an acute angle off the cross bar. However just as they thought there was a way back, the Bank stepped up and a ball found itself to Jason who drilled home from the edge of the area to finish the game as a contest. A number of substitutions followed, as Hightower made full use of his resources and a number of chances came and went, the best two falling to Tully making the Black Boy keeper produce an exceptional save and Towner, rolling back the years as a second half sub blasting over when well placed to open his account for the season in the 1st team. Still no more goals came and the game petered out. However, the Bank had done their job, recording a victory; something a distant memory since the autumn and setting themselves up for the visit of Theale next week, their last game of 2006.   Team: Cook, Haimes, Allen, Bellman, Price (Towner), Tully (Ragabool), Wagner, Roughnean, Archer, Woodrow, Williams (A.MacArhtur)