Jake Robinson is ready to make the most of his last teenage year and cause a stir in first-team football.

At the age of 19 and getting on for three years since his first senior goal, he reckons it is time he really made a name for himself.

Four goals in his first 94 minutes of pre-season playing time is not a bad way to start.

The popular striker followed his double at Worthing with two well-taken efforts at scorching Nyewood Lane on Saturday as a youthful Seagulls line-up saw off Conference south opponents.

It was by no means a perfect team performance, as Mark McGhee was pretty quick to point out, but the sight of goals flying in was one of the plusses for the manager.

And so was the fact his strikers were getting them.

Joe Gatting scored one and made another and there was a nice late effort by trialist Liam Marum, though that was not enough to earn him a place on the training trip to France.

Robinson's first was a well-controlled volley from a deep cross by Dan Severino and the second was a calmly converted one-on-one after nice work by Dean Cox and Gatting to open a 3-1 lead right on half-time.

"I'm 19 now, I'm not the youngster everybody probably thinks I am," Robinson said as he explained his urgency to succeed in League One.

That might seem a strange quote but Robinson has been the next big thing for a while now and the time has come to take the next big step.

He added: "Everything has been going really well for me this pre-season in training and matches. I've felt really sharp.

"Obviously the goals are important for me because that's where I've struggled and fortunately they have been going in.

"I've had a long look at myself over the summer, not because I was disappointed.

"I just thought to myself I know I've got the ability and I've got good coaching and there is no reason for me not be playing well'."

McGhee would love to see his little striker produce the kind of display which terrorised Taribo West in a win over Plymouth almost a year ago.

The Albion boss said: "I've known Jake's potential for a long time and we've seen it often but he needs to put it together over a season.

"We need Jake to be the man. This is a division where he should be able to get goals with his pace and movement and he has shown the right signs so far."

Maybe it was because of the young line-up but McGhee's assistant Dean Wilkins, formerly coach of the under-18s, was very active on the touchline on Saturday.

His eye for detail and comments to the players were an education, be it urging Cox to look his opponent in the eye when he closed him down, admonishment for bits of slack play or asking how Bognor managed to cross for Dan Beck's nicely taken volley six minutes from time.

Rookie striker Alex Revell was given constructive advice from both Wilkins and McGhee after his 25-minute run out, which was taken in good heart.

Revell's participation was always meant to be short-lived but Joel Lynch made a premature departure as he continues to be hindered by a thigh strain.

A defensive breakdown on seven minutes allowed Ben Watson room to cancel out Robinson's second-minute opener.

Cox twice went close before Gatting's great header restored Albion's lead on 37 minutes.

Chris Breach tapped in the 49th-minute fourth when Gatting's initial effort hit the post.

Dean Harris, the hosts' substitute keeper, made four great saves but was beaten by Marum's crisp 20-yard drive after a strong run before Beck replied. Severino was pinging passes around by then but it was a bit too late. The left-sided trialist did little noticeably bad but nothing eyecatchingly good and blew his big chance.

Happily though for Albion, their kids are all right. Even the ones who are getting on a bit.