THERE only seemed to be one dissatisfield voice of the 800 people at Salisbury after Friday night's 3-1 win over Yate Town kept Whites top of the Southern League table - that of manager Nick Holmes!

Holmes said: "Yate didn't bring many supporters so I think most of the fabulous crowd of 800 went home happy, knowing that for a couple of weeks they will see their team at the top of the league.

"But if the players want to stay there they will have to do a lot better than they did tonight.

"They must learn that when they are in that position, every team will have a go, no matter what their own position - we did the same to Yeading last season.

"We started against Yate with the wrong attitude and we have got an awful lot of work to do to stay on top of the league."

Newly-promoted Yate survived a first half of missed Whites chances after taking a shock sixth-minute lead with a tremendous strike from Adam Sims.

Salisbury had a further scare shortly afterwards when keeper Kevin Sawyer was forced to parry a fierce Paul Chenoweth drive.

But the Whites then responded with an equaliser on 14 minutes, Craig Davis delivering a corner into the box where Simon Browne bagged his first goal for the club with a powerful header.

Two minutes later Paul Sales saw a 30-yard effort crash against the bar with Wayne Turk being unable to take advantage of a simple follow-up, as Yate keeper Tony Court began a string of fine saves to keep his side in the match.

Court denied Browne on 24 minutes and also Sales 15 minutes later.

But on 50 minutes Sims was unlucky at the other end when his shot hit the inside of the post and went to safety.

Matt Tubbs got Salisbury's second on 55 minutes when a superb through ball from Turk set him free to coolly aim his finish across Court into the corner.

On 83 minutes Tubbs was again through, only to be denied once more by the keeper.

But Salisbury made it 3-1 with four minutes remaining with a Davis spot kick after the assistant referee had flagged for a hand-ball in the visitors' area.