MALVERN Town's last Express and Star West Midlands League Premier Division defeat was at Gornal during the last week of September.

MALVERN TOWN 6, GORNAL ATHLETIC 0

Since then Town have remained undefeated in the league and they exacted maximum revenge on the Black Country outfit with a superb display at a rain swept Langland Stadium on Saturday.

Ricky Halion opened the scoring for Town after just 10 minutes when he drilled the ball home from the edge of the box. Immediately prior to this Town almost took the lead, when Dean Roberts seemingly goalbound header came back off the post.

A second goal was not long in arriving and when Pete Roberts and Des Cox combined to pick out Nathan Owen at the far post, the midfielder slotted home to grab Town's second after 25 minutes.

With Town now totally in control a third goal seemed inevitable, and it duly arrived after 37 minutes, when Rob Graham threaded a superb through ball into the path of Cox. The Town striker kept his cool to round the visiting 'keeper and fire home to register his 10th goal of the season and give his side an unassailable 3-0 interval lead.

Unlike the previous Saturday, when Town sat back on a 4-0 half time lead against Walsall Wood, Malvern kept the momentum going and Owen registered his second strike when his shot took a slight deflection to register his side's fourth goal after 55 minutes.

Owen then hit the outside of the post and immediately afterwards, the Gornal keeper made a superb save from an excellent strike from substitute Peter Rose, who had replaced first half injury victim Lee Goodman.

But a fifth goal for Town was not long in arriving and when Halion's corner was only half cleared, Town skipper Dean Roberts fired the loose ball into the roof of the net, to also put his season's goal tally into double figures.

Cox then finished tamely from a good position and then fired against an upright, but Malvern made it 6-0 in the 86th minute, when new signing Paul Edwards cut in from the left and drilled an excellent strike inside the Gornal keeper's left hand post.

After the game town coach Neil Hunt said: "This was definitely our best display of the season so far, we have been threatening this sort of performance for a few weeks now, and today everything came right.

"We really do believe we can get in amongst the leading teams and already have a number of games in hand on most of the other competing sides."