Well, what a tonic that was. After a rough few weeks of results for both the women and the men, how nice to see a proper thumping at The Pan.

This victory owed almost everything to the pace of our front line, which the visitors from across the border simply couldn’t cope with. Leah Lane, Paula Howells and Liv Carpenter were running the Gwalia back line ragged well before we took the lead midway through the first half.

A lovely ball (sorry, I didn’t see by whom) was slipped through the middle for Liv Carpenter, who slotted it home with supreme calmness.

It was a similar move that notched the second a few minutes later. This time it was Leah Lane who was set free, and she too didn’t give the keeper a sniff as she raced through and planted it past her.

Having already set a high bar, the third was the best of the lot. A lovely sweeping move down the left was centred and a shot was smacked against the foot of the post. It dinked clear to Rebekah Trewhitt, who gave the move the polish it deserved with a calm finish from a tight angle.

So, 3-0 up at half-time and nobody could complain about the entertainment. And it threatened to get even more entertaining for a moment there, as Supporters Club stalwarts Terry and Sinclair fetched the ladders to try and retrieve a hoofed-off ball from the locked tennis courts. Sinclair was swiftly nominated to go over the top, but when he saw the 20ft drop from the top of the wall to the courts below, he swiftly declined the role of Fireman Sam.

Terry reappeared ten minutes later with two ladders and a football under his arm. Apparently his military training led him to sniff out a shorter section of fence, but if you read about vandals digging a tunnel into the tennis courts in the newspaper this week, you’ll know why.

Back on the pitch, the Rooks weren’t letting up either. A fourth was added when Hannah Godfrey attempted a looping header at the back post, and it dropped in (seemingly five minutes later) at the opposite stick.

It says everything about the dominance of the performance that stand-in keeper Silvana Marshall – in for the minorly crocked Emily Moore – didn’t have a serious save to make.

The result puts the Rooks back in the top half and back into the black in the goal difference column.

Lewes: Marshall, Brant, Schreimaier, Banaras, Godfrey, Carpenter, Trewhitt, Howells, Roche, Edwards, Lane

Subs: Teale, Ferguson, Rowe, Harvey, Bell, Gilligan, Priest

Supporters Club man of the match: As lethal as the front line was, Layla Banaras was exceptional in the middle of the park, making everything look effortlessly simple.