Despite playing the sort of eye-catching football, at least in the first half, that was a feature of their play in August, the Griffin-less Foxes were never able to pose sufficient threat upfront to unduly worry the expensively assembled Newquay outfit who will surely never have a better chance than this season of actually winning something, albeit against mainly village sides with a fraction of their budget. The match was therefore effectively won inside two minutes, when some pretty ordinary defending allowed Squires to march through unchallenged from inside his own half to finish easily, and the second seven minutes later from a suspiciously offside looking Arscott served merely to confirm the inevitable destination of the points.

Squires may have helped himself to an early hat-trick had he better directed two headers from centres from strike partner Weldhen before he turned provider after outmuscling Thomas but Weldhen was similarly profligate. It hardly mattered as Ludlam converted Trott's thirty-fourth minute cross after Thomas' inexperience was again cruelly exposed, to emphasise the difference between their own attacks and those of the home team, which habitually petered out in the final third long before the latest striking duo Trudgian and Rundle could test Blackler. Stephen, soon to be booked for fouling Trott, was having a tough time against Weldhen, who cleverly set up Ludlam for another squandered chance moments before the break, and there was also apparently a caution for Kemp, although your correspondent is blaming the thick Goverseth mist as his excuse for missing it.

Other than a couple of long range efforts from Hazeldine, Foxhole never looked capable of even a consolation in a desperately disappointing second-half showing, enlivened for the home faithful only by the entertaining site of Squires wasting chance after chance, particularly following his fortuitous second goal on sixty-seven minutes when his drive bounced over the hand of the diving Holland. Likewise substitute Westgarth appeared also to have left his shooting boots at home, ensuring the well-beaten Foxes at least avoided being massacred. It seemed Hazeldine was destined for his second successive red card when his caution for fouling Harris was superseded by the type of tasty challenges that may have resulted in a more competitive match had they arrived over an hour earlier, but he was withdrawn just in time, arguably one of few positives from another hugely frustrating afternoon.

Foxhole (4-4-2): Ryan Holland; Joe Stone (sub. Adam Fieldhouse), Ben Thomas, Ryan Stephen, Adam Holland; Jamie Coates, Jaydon Gotthardt (sub. Richard Faircloth), Lee Hazeldine (sub. Ryan Wilkins), Ben Spaul; Adam Trudgian, Aydan Rundle.

Newquay (4-4-2); Tom Blackler; Lewis Hilton (sub. Dan Carne), Dave Hollow, Dean Harris, Mike Arscott; Dave Trott, Johnny Ludlam, Paul Hampshire, Josh Kemp (sub. Ollie Deadman); Luke Weldhen (sub. Andrew Westgarth), Glen Squires.

Referee: Mr Chris Stevens (Fowey).