Wealdstone emphatically put a smile back on their fans’ faces as they ended a sequence of back-to-back defeats with a convincing 4-1 win over Margate on Saturday.

Gordon Bartlett’s side showed no mercy on the Kent outfit and inflicted a sixth straight defeat on their visitors and leapfrogged them in the league table.

Wes Parker set them on their way to the win, smashing the ball high into the roof of the net from a Scott Davies corner to open the scoring.

But the visitors refused to submit and, with the swirling wind making it difficult for both sides, they threatened with their pace and movement on the counter attack.

Wealdstone did not heed the warning signs and the visitors duly silenced the vast majority of the 750-strong Easter crowd inside the FreeBets.co.uk Stadium when Danny Green provided the equaliser after the home defence had obligingly opened up for him.

That goal lifted the seasiders, but the Stones refused to buckle under the pressure and with Scott McGleish leading from the front and centre-half Tom Cadmore playing in an unfamiliar midfield berth, they made sure that was the best the afternoon got for the visitors.

The Stones got their noses back in front when Davies showed great vision to pick out Johnny Wright’s clever run into the box and Wright did the rest by planting the ball beyond Chris Lewington to re-establish the home side’s lead.

The hosts knew they needed another goal and got it with their third and best of the afternoon.

Keeper Lewington did well to save twice but could do nothing when the ball popped out to Bradley Hudson-Odoi who drilled home to make it 3-1 and put the men in blue firmly in the driving seat.

With the cushion of a two-goal lead, the shackles were off and Wealdstone relaxed and dominated proceedings for the rest of the afternoon. Much-travelled striker Jefferson Louis had a good penalty shout rejected by the officials when he went tumbling inside the box but it did not matter.

The three points were duly wrapped up and sealed on 82 minutes when Tom Hamblin planted a header into the back of the net after a corner from man-of-the-match Davies had picked him out.

The win lifted Stones up to 13th in the Vanarama National League South table but they didn’t have the chance to build on that on Easter Monday when Bishop’s Stortford’s waterlogged pitch put paid to their hopes of climbing up the table further with successive Easter wins.

That will now have to wait until Saturday when they host Havant and Waterlooville. Meanwhile, the Bishop’s Stortford game has been re-arranged for Tuesday, April 19.

Elsewhere, the club have confirmed there has been considerable interest – both internal and external – in the role of becoming the new chairman.