When Matthew Bowen won the ball on the edge of the penalty area on the hour, he curled in a cross which Sam Palmer failed to connect with properly, but in the process wrong-footed the goalkeeper to leave Ashley Ford a yard from an open goal under no pressure and with a chance to put Monmouth Town back in the game at three-two.

That the ball sailed perilously close to the River Monnow and a minute later sailed over Williams to make it four-one tells a small part of this story.

The big picture is that Town were thrashed.

Beaten very badly for their worst defeat at home since the dark days of the Gwent County Third division all those centuries ago when Andrew Lloyd donated his TV shelf to the club so that they could enjoy their new club house.