Welcome to Groundhog Week. The women today replayed a game that made it to eightysomething minutes a few weeks ago before being hastily abandoned, and on Tuesday the men will go to Whitehawk to replay a game that was deep into the second half when the lights went out.

For a while there, it looked like Exeter might have had another wasted trip, with a super-fussy referee initially declaring the damp but perfectly serviceable pitch unfit to play. Cue a Herculean effort from volunteers, staff and even the first-team manager Emma forking and rolling the pitch until Fussy McFusspot decided we could actually get a game on, an hour after the allotted kick-off time.

Talking of the officials, today saw the debut of something I very much approve of: Hip-Hop Linesman, or L.I.N.O. as he’s known on the streets.

Wearing a hoodie and a back-to-front baseball cap, he was of course running the line on the West Side of the ground. Respect.

Amazingly, the Lino’s straight-out-of-the-Bronx garb wasn’t the worst attire on the pitch. Whoever decided that Exeter’s white shirts should be adorned with impossible-to-see white numbers isn’t troubling MENSA’s selection committee.

The referee booked three of their players in their first half. I bet he still doesn’t know which ones.

The first game at The Pan was a tight 1-1 when it was controversially abandoned. This one was a much more one-sided affair.

The Rooks were largely on top before they took the lead on the half hour. Olivia Carpenter capitalised on a shoddy pass out from the back to slot the Rooks in front, and they never looked back.

Leah Lane made it two shortly afterwards. Seaby got to the byline and dragged the ball back into the six-yard box for Lane to bundle it home.

Goals three and four were Paula Howells specials. The first was trademark Paula, nipping the ball off the toes of a defender before lashing a Thunderbastard into the top corner. The second-half fourth was more measured, bursting away down the left before sliding the ball into the bottom corner.

She was subbed off before she could nab a hat-trick, much to the relief of supporter Joe who promised to buy her a pint of Guinness for every goal scored, and was last seen crying at the bar.

The only downside for the Rooks was Rebecca Trewhitt seeing red, collecting two yellow cards for two rash lunges, one in each half. Memo for the Rooks’ kit manager: get our numbers printed in red. The ref won’t know who they’ve booked then…

Lewes: Moore, Brant, Schreimaier, Banaras, Godfrey, Carpenter, Seaby, Trewhitt, Howells, Priest, Lane

Subs: Woods, Ginger, Ferguson, Rowe, Roche, Gilligan, Edwards

Supporters Club player of the match: Olivia Carpenter was superb, but Paula edges it for costing Joe a tenner.