Paulton gave a convincing promotion-chasing display, hitting seven against old rivals, Clevedon, on a bittterly cold Monday night this week.

Brandon Barnes made it 1–0 on 26 minutes when a long free kick by Kyle Phillips was flicked on by Klein-Davies to Barnes to shoot home. Two minutes later, Lacey won a tackle on the halfway line and sent Barnes on his way to slip past an onrushing Oli Barton in the Clevedon goal to make it 2–0.

Rovers continues to press and on the stroke of half-time, Barnes completed his hat-trick. Lacey started the move, found Klein-Davies, whose inch-perfect ball to Barnes who cut in from the right wing to beat Barton. At 3–0, more goals seemed likely, but in a rare attack it was Clevedon that pulled one back after a foul on Ross McNab. Full back, Sam Teale, hit a superb 25-yard shot that beat Phillips. The advantage was restored eight minutes later when Barnes hit a superb free kick after Klein-Davies had been fouled. The wing man curled the ball low around the Clevedon wall, beating Barton to make it 4–1. On seventy minutes, a speedy attack out of defence saw Jeffries race down the right, lay the ball to Klein-Davies, whose throughball to Lacey allowed his strike partner to make it 5–1.

Five minutes later, Jeffries put the ball through to Barnes, who turned and cheekily back-heeled the ball into the net from twelve yards out to make it 6–1 to Paulton. As Clevedon lost their discipline, they had Matt Thorne sent off for a second yellow and then Connor McCormack dismissed for a two-footed tackle on Marcus Mapstone to finish the game with nine men.

There was just time with five minutes remaining for the tireless Klein-Davies to score as he received the ball from Barnes to tuck home to make it 7–1 for Rovers. Paulton have now scored 54 goals in sixteen league games to retain third place, with close rivals, Wimborne, the visitors to Winterfield Road this Saturday, kick-off at 3 p.m.