Ward and Mellor, Nelson and Bremner, Byrne and Small and, for a short period, Knight and Iwelumo.

Albion have a healthy tradition for goalscoring partnerships. Now add to the list Robinson and Revell.

The latest double act have notched 20 goals between them, with more than half the season remaining.

That is pretty impressive but it is not just the front pair finding the net with regularity.

Captain Dean Hammond is leading by example with six goals from midfield, one behind winger Dean Cox.

The little man did not score this time but he made sure Robinson did with a slide-rule pass in the last minute.

Robinson and Revell offer different options, the former pace and movement, the latter lung-bursting runs and aerial prowess.

That is one of the good things about Dean Wilkins' squad. He has a lot of variety and, on this evidence, a fair degree of depth as well.

Wilkins, his defence disrupted by the absences of Guy Butters and Andrew Whing, handed Sam Rents his first start since the end of September.

He set up a goal then for on-loan Aston Villa striker Sam Williams against Chesterfield and he celebrated his return by doing the same for Revell.

Wilkins said: "Sam has done well when he has come in and played for us. He's been training well so I had no hesitation in putting him in.

"He has had two assists in the appearances he's made. He has got quality with his left foot but he's got a great attitude as well."

Albion's attitude was spot-on, as it needed to be to avoid the risk of an FA Cup upset.

There was no evidence of complacency after the 8-0 annihalation of one of Stafford's Conference rivals, Northwich Victoria, in the previous round.

The Seagulls were 2-0 up in 18 minutes that day, this time they had to wait until the 18th minute for a breakthrough.

Northwich contributed to their own emphatic downfall by standing off and giving Albion room to play.

Stafford made the same mistake when Wayne Daniel's headed clearance fell to Hammond 20 yards out.

Exploiting time and space, he curved a right-foot shot past diving keeper Danny Alcock with precision placement.

All the while it was 1-0 Albion could not afford to relax against hard-working but limited opposition.

Revell effectively settled the issue midway through the second half, climbing between two defenders to head in his eighth of the season from Rents' diagonal cross.

Robinson's 12th of the campaign, and eighth in as many matches, was window dressing, a confident finish after Cox delivered a through ball into his path.

Robinson said: "It was a similar situation to Tuesday (at Millwall). We were just lacking in that final ball at times and it wasn't falling for me.

"I always had confidence that I'd get one but I had to wait a long time for it again.

"At times I was a little bit disappointed with my touch and passing. At the end of the day it's about goals, although I've got to do those things better."

Albion were not at their best. They looked a little weary after defeat on a heavy pitch at Doncaster and the heroic effort at Millwall with ten men.

It was still too good for Stafford's mixture of full and part-time players, including a dustman, law student and trainee minister.

His prayers were not answered. For all their honest endeavour, the visitors did not manage a single shot on goal.

The Seagulls were at their most fluent in the later stages of the first half, when Wilkins switched to 4-3-3 in search of more possession.

During that period Robinson, shifted out to the right, ran Rangers' left-back Nathan Talbott ragged.

He still frustrates Wilkins at times. "I think his play in the middle third of the field has dipped slightly," said the manager. "But obviously he is still a real goal threat for us."

So too, for that matter, are Revell, Hammond and Cox., which is encouraging as the fight proceeds on three fronts.

The FA Cup and Johnstone's Paint Trophy can be put to bed until January.

There are half-a-dozen fixtures between now and then, beginning with the quest for an elusive first League victory at home since mid-September against Swansea tomorrow night.

ALBION (4-4-2): Wayne Henderson (GK), Kerry Mayo (RB), Adam Hinshelwood (CB), Joel Lynch (CB), Sam Rents (LB), Alex Frutos (RM), Tommy Fraser (CM), Dean Hammond (CM), Dean Cox (LM), Alex Revell (CF), Jake Robinson (CF). Subs: Joe Gatting (for Revell 84), Alistair John (for Frutos 67), Richard Carpenter (for Fraser 72), Georges Santos, Michel Kuipers.

STAFFORD RANGERS (4-4-2): Danny Alcock (GK), Richie Sutton (RB), Wayne Daniel (CB), Liam Murray (CB), Nathan Talbott (LB), Kevin Street (RM), Craig Lovatt (CM), Ged Murphy (CM), Danny Edwards (LM), Guy Madjo (CF), Neil Grayson (CF). Subs: Robin Gibson (for Street 58), Dolapo Olaoye (for Madjo 71), Chris Basham (for Lovatt 82), Matt Barlow, Brian Quailey.