Banbury Bulls returned to Bodicote Park still searching for form, but it would be another case of an opportunity spurned as they once again gave up a first half lead against Kidderminster Carolians.
Banbury started brightly and for the first quarter of the match held sway, with sharp backs moves and good supporting running repeatedly taking them into the visitors half. Winger Dave Taylor came within inches of opening the scoring before being bundled into touch, following a dangerous break by centre James Heywood. Whilst the Bulls were not destined to cross the whitewash on that occasion, they did take the lead 3-0 shortly after when full-back Andrew Joubert was on target with a difficult penalty goal attempt. Banbury continued to put pressure on, but were too often unable to convert this into points.

Despite being under the cosh, Kidderminster defended stoutly and were often able to use their powerful forwards to drive their way out of their own territory. As the half progressed, the visitors started to build momentum and the Bulls were to find themselves on the back foot. Repelling several close range drives from their own try-line, Kidderminster were finally able to get over the Bulls tryline when fly-half McLellan forced his way over from close range, under the posts. With an easy conversion to follow, Banbury found themselves trailling 7-3.

The visitors however, continually frustrated the Banbury attempts to wrestle back control, and increasingly the referee deemed that these were illegal. Joubert was off target with another difficult penalty attempt and eventually the number of offences grew too much and visiting prop, Turner, was shown a yellow card. As the half-time whistle approached, Banbury needed to make the most of this extra man. Another good break by Heywood and Taylor down the left wing put Banbury in a great attacking position, from which fly-half Jed Boyle was able to follow up a kick through and touch down to score. Joubert was however wide with the simple conversion, but Banbury had the lead at the break 8-7.

The Bulls continued where they left off as second half began and accurate kicking by Boyle, Joubert and skipper Ed Phillips, kept Kidderminster pinned back in their own territory. Pressure turned into points fior the Bulls as Joubert slotted another penalty to go 11-7 up. Kidderminster continued to struggle at the breakdown and no sooner were they back to 15 players, but another yellow card came out, this time to the scrum-half Pinner. However, this time Banbury failed to capitalise on the extra man, in fact it seemed to buoy up the visitors instead. When a promising cross-field kick by Phillips came to naught, Kidderminster booted the ball clear and down into the Banbury 22, where Joubert could do nothing but put the ball into touch. The resulting passage of play saw the strength of Kidderminster's pack come to the fore, and after a number of spirited driving mauls, they were rewarded with a try to Number 8, Wilkinson. The conversion was wide, but Banbury were now behind 11-12.

And worse was to follow over the following ten minutes as Banbury yet again seemed to be unable to respond to their opposition stepping up the pressure. Wilkinson scored again to stretch the visitor's lead to 11-19 and immediately from the kick off, the Bulls defensive organisation fell apart, with Pinner scoring Kidderminster's bonus point try in the corner. This was to be the final score of the match, and Banbury fell to yet another avoidable defeat 11-24.