A HAT-TRICK from Jason Milhench ensured that Fairford Town were not rocked off the top of the Hellenic League Division One West table.

Gareth Davies’ side ran out comfortable 6-0 winners away to Tytherington Rocks, with five of those goals coming in the first half.

Davies took nothing for granted heading into the tie against third-from-bottom Tytherington, but praised his side’s most complete performance of the season following their success.

“Yesterday I think, on a bad pitch, it was some of the best football we have played for a long time,” he said.

“We were very good and the score could have been a few more. It was a joy to watch.

“We did say it had the potential to be a banana skin. I know their form hasn’t been the best but it is teams like that, if you are going to challenge for something, those are the teams you need to dispatch.

“It doesn’t matter how you do it, you just need to go and get the three points.

“We did say about getting an early goal and then their heads will drop and we can play our game and it went to plan.

“They were all at the races and I don’t think anybody had a bad game. When it got to six we had full-backs making runs they wouldn’t normally do because everybody wants to score goals."

Jack Ellis scored his first goal for the club to open the scoring six minutes in as he headed home a Milhench corner.

Milhench then got his name on the score-sheet for the first time as he dribbled past two before rounding the keeper and slotting home in the 21st minute.

Ellis then turned provider three minutes later as he broke through the Tytherington backline before passing to Nathan Gambling to score.

The visitors were four up two minutes before the break when Milhench finished off a well-worked team goal, before Ellis was brought down in the box on the stroke of half time and Milhench completed his hat-trick from the spot.

With the result all but confirmed at the break, Fairford didn’t let up as they hit the crossbar three times before captain Matt Boucher completed the scoring in the 66th minute, with Daniel Ogden shown a late red card for the hosts.

“It is about winning football matches now,” added Davies.

“Every game that comes our way we have just got to try and stay in the race and put points on the board.

“It doesn’t matter who we play or where we play, we can only do what we can do at our end.

“We go into the big game next week (against Cheltenham Saracens) with a bit of confidence.”