Wimbledon supporters will be hoping that the Dons can finish their forthcoming campaign as well as they have started their preparations for it - with skipper Danny Kedwell putting on the ultimate marksman’s display and more silverware in the Fans’ Stadium trophy cabinet.

Kedwell netted four times as the Dons took their goalscoring tally for the week to ten in this first-ever meeting for the Phil Ledger Memorial Cup against Woking of the Blue Square Bet South. This was nearly a Blue Square Bet Premier fixture, but the Cards lost out to Bath in last season’s play-off final, and having lost Tony Sinclair and Harry Arter to Football League clubs they are still very much in the process of rebuilding. One notable absentee from their line-up was recently signed centre-back Alan Inns.

The man who gave his name to the trophy served Woking loyally for many years both on and off the pitch, and was also Wimbledon’s goalkeeper when they won the Isthmian League Championship in 1959.

Manager Terry Brown named his side after Friday training, opting for a more established starting eleven than the team that took to the field and set up the 6-2 mauling of Corinthian-Casuals on Tuesday. Versatile Christian Jolley started where he had finished up in mid-week, at left-back, Sam Moore took over the holding midfield role in a 4-3-3 formation, while Lee Minshull and Ricky Wellard returned from injury to join him in the middle. Ryan Jackson also proved how adaptable he can be by moving forward to wide right.

Among those on the bench were central defenders Ed Harris and Fraser Franks. Also included as substitutes were goalkeeper Jack Turner plus Jordaan Brown, Elton Gjoni and former Woking player Delano Sam-Yorke, now a Dons trialist, all of whom played in a Dons reserve squad that lost 3-0 to a full-strength team put out by Southern League champions Farnborough the previous evening.

Wimbledon quickly set about asserting their dominance, with Minshull looking to take control of midfield. After three minutes Jolley tried to set Main away down the left, and a minute later the Dons were one up. After good passing and quick and incisive play, again down the left through Jolley, Main crossed for Kedwell in the six-yard area to apply the finishing touch.

Craig Faulconbridge got in a header which Seb Brown took easily after five minutes, but Brown later had to scramble to get to grips with a Takumi Ake cross. Minshull strode through and shot low and just wide after eight minutes, and soon afterwards Kedwell also came close to the target. Wimbledon moved up a gear with their second, on 24 minutes. Jolley had the beating of Ryan Watts, and Sam Moore was also involved in the build-up before the ball came to Minshull, who got it down for Kedwell to fire a low left-footed shot from range past Ross Worner.

The best opportunity that fell to the hosts came on the half-hour, but Mark Ricketts failed in his attempt to beat Brown. For the Dons, Wellard forced Worner into action after good work from Jackson after 27 minutes, Main struck the upright low and from outside the box after Wellard initially forged a way through five minutes later, and then Wellard had an attempt himself before the ball fell to Main, who acrobatically fired high and just over. Main was looking sharp and determined to get in on the act and add to his midweek double against Casuals.

But this was to be Kedwell’s day. Two minutes before the break he secured his first-half hat-trick with a towering header inside the six-yard box from a Jackson cross. Wimbledon finished the half on top in every department, and Main continued to be a threat down the left, causing havoc just before the whistle.

This may still be pre-season, but Terry Brown still wanted his senior players to remain switched on in the second half despite their considerable advantage, and not give the opposition any sniff of a way back in, as they did in midweek.

And he wasn’t disappointed, for the Dons continued to dominate play after the break. Kedwell was denied another after 46 minutes with offside given, Brett Johnson headed just wide from a corner three minutes later, and just after that Kedwell set the effective Jackson away in a promising move down the right.

Substitutions made by Dons over the course of the half didn’t lessen their grip on the game. Kedwell made a chance seemingly out of nothing after 54 minutes, and a minute later Rashid Yussuff, on as a substitute, followed up and and fired just wide after another Main attempt.

On the hour Jackson went off, Jolley switched to wide right and young Jordaan Brown took over from Jolley at left-back slot. Jolley grasped what his manager wanted from him and delivered a high cross onto the head of Kedwell for the captain’s and Wimbledon’s fourth goal of the afternoon.

Substitute Franks was alert to deny Woking a consolation with a quarter of a hour to go. Reece Jones, introduced earlier in the half, produced a great one-handed save from Cards substitute keeper Will Viner four minutes from the end.

An hour before kick-off Terry Brown had sat in a near-empty stand quietly mapping out his game plan for the day. At the end he was left delighted as Kedwell stepped forward to receive the cup, having delivered an outstanding performance on the day that non-League football remembered an outstanding individual.