A patched up Uxbridge side suffered their heaviest defeat for two years at Division One leaders Thame United. Already missing the suspended Dean Clark and Kevin Cleary, the Reds were also without Mark Weedon, Danny Jordan and Michael Fredriksen for various reasons and consequently gave debuts to Alan Hamlet and Carl Leverne, both on loan from Boreham Wood. Windmill Road is not the ideal place to arrive at with a weakened side this season as Thame are unbeaten in the league since the opening day. They had also scored twenty-two goals in their previous four games and Uxbridge were understandably under the cosh almost from the off. Reds goalkeeper Sean Dawson made three useful saves in the opening stages, denying Wayne Cort, Justin Merritt and Mark Jones whilst Mark West also headed over from six yards with the goal at his mercy. Dawson though was helpless on twenty minutes when Cort, brother of Newcastle’s Carl, headed in from Justin Lee’s corner to open the scoring. Uxbridge had problems trying find a way through the well marshalled and solid home defence all afternoon and it was no surprise when Thame went further ahead just after the half hour when Chris Fontaine’s seemingly innocuous shot slipped under Dawson. The Reds had created some half chances themselves as the half hour approached. Steve Walters was almost put through by Mark Gill but took two touches when one would have done and ran the ball out of play whilst Chris Moore sent over a cross that flashed across the six yard box before slicing a shot wide. Indeed, three minutes before the break Moore almost pulled one back for the Reds but his deflected shot was pushed out by Ian Moores and the loose ball was cleared by a defender. Uxbridge then went on to enjoy their best spell of the match in the twenty minutes after half time with Lee Tunnell shooting narrowly wide and the Reds putting Thame on the defensive for the first time in the game. However, midway through the half the home side benefited from some good fortune when Lee’s cross was miss hit by Cort straight into the path of substitute Jefferson Louis who finished in style. Shortly afterwards Merritt exchanged passes with Cort before shooting wide and six minutes after the third goal had effectively killed the contest Stuart Bamford lost possession to Louis and his cross was finished off by Chris Potter’s shot. That wasn’t to be the end of the scoring though and eleven minutes from time Fontaine curled a superb effort past Dawson to make it five. Louis nearly added another deep into injury time when his powerful drive cannoned back off a post before the referee finally blew his whistle to end a miserable afternoon for Uxbridge.

THAME UNITED: Moores, Jones (Potter 59), Lee (Williams 73), Brown, Williams, Avery, Merritt, West ( Louis 65), Cort, Perna, Fontaine.

UXBRIDGE: Dawson, Mills, S.Bamford, Granville, Hamlet, Walters, Ryder, Gill, Tunnell, Moore, Leverne.

Subs not used: Greaves, Flanagan.