They conceded five tries in 19 minutes at Wood Terrace, including a hat-trick from Westoe's impressive fly-half Charlie Rayner, who finished with a personal haul of 28 points.

That left the Woodlands side 36-9 down at half-time and there was no way back, even though their second-half performance did restore some pride.

Things had started promisingly for the visitors, whose tactic of containing the Westoe attacks appeared to be paying off as they played up the slope in the first half.

Rayner did give his side a first-minute lead with a penalty but this was cancelled out by Fylde fly-half Tom Barlow, who edged his side ahead on 17 minutes with his second penalty.

But two minutes later, Rayner skipped through the Fylde midfield to score a neat try which he converted himself – the overture to 19 minutes of mayhem for the Fylde defence.

On 25 minutes, Fylde were penalised for crossing in their own half and Westoe winger Chris Clarktook a tap-penalty and raced through the empty ranks of a hapless defence for the try. Rayner converted and suddenly Westoe had a 17-6 lead.

Barlow third penalty on 29 minutes merely delayed the inevitable as Westoe were now running around and through the Fylde defence at will.
On 31 minutes, Rayner scored his second try, quickly followed up by one from the other Clark twin, centre James.

Both Chris and James have hurt Fylde in past seasons, when playing for Darlington Mowden Park, and here they wreaked havoc.

Rayner, another former DMP man, was having the time of his life. In the 38th minute, he scored his hat-trick try, adding his fifth goal to make it 36-9 at half-time.

The Fylde pack actually played well throughout and began to step up the pressure after the break. Four minutes into the second half they set up a driving maul and lock Nick King powered over for Fylde's opening try, which Barlow converted.

King was replaced by Grant Ferguson, who could only look on helpless three minutes later, when Westoe winger Peter Phelan raced in for an interception try, converted by Rayner.

The Fylde pack continued to press the home eight and force penalties, one of which saw flanker Aaron Myers sinbinned on 53 minutes. He was followed nine minutes later by centre James Clark.

Just before the second yellow card was waved by referee Rob Sheard, the Fylde backline discovered some coherence and a neat move put winger Matt Gargett over in the right corner.

Barlow was unable to make the conversion but at least this was better stuff from the visitors.

With Westoe on the back foot and a man down, there was a glimpse of a bonus point for Fylde but their challenge ran out of steam and the final quarter brought no further scoring.

The result saw Fylde slip three places to ninth and anxious to return to winning ways at home to Harrogate on Saturday.