Stutter at the end   Southbank closed out their 2006-2007 season commitments with a result that summed up their season and final 5th place finish for the season. Despite the prospect of a 4th place finish, disappearing several weeks back the form of the recent games had been excellent with 3 wins and a draw. However, they were unable to sign off with a victory as they went down 1-2 at Coley Park to a battling Trentionians. Coley Park is without doubt been a major disaster for the team this year with just 2 victories from their 8 all season. Probably the fact that the surface has been nothing but a joke since the start of the season has not helped but the young team have somehow played better away from home. The probably reason for this is the fact that many of the opposition pitches are wide and expansive and this suits many of the players who either have good engines or pass the ball excellently. The search is on for 2007-2008 to see if an alternative pitch can be secured because as the results show Coley Park is not an environment likely to help the club’s promotion cause. Again, the hard pitch was better mastered by the opposition and didn’t really allow for the team to get into its stride apart from the first 20 minutes when there was no score on the board. Trentionians scored first, a simple ball through the centre of the defence found Olly and Hightower slow to react and despite several chances to clear, Trent found the net after hitting the bar. Southbank reacted well to equalise, top scorer Benji Williams securing his position of top scorer with his 13 goal of the season to bring them back level. However, Trent secured all 3 points with the second and final goal of the game 10 minutes before half-time. The second half bought nothing except a fine save by Cook in goal as the game and the season dissolved away under the baking hot April sun, a season so rich in promise somehow slipped away with the odd sloppy result but providing the 1st squad sticks together hope springs eternal for 2007-2008   Team: Cook, Haimes, Bradbury, Price, Bellman, Roughnegn (Wagner (Holton)), Woodrow, Tully (Derman), Allen, McKie, Williams