The previous week the Spartans had clinched a surprise victory over Brighton, to record their first win of the season.
But Jennings knows it will take an impressive display from any team now to knock his players out of their stride as they head the South East Division 1 West table.
And they are likely to face just that this weekend, when they travel to take on Sunbury & Walton Hawks, who are their nearest challengers.
“It will take a very good team to get a result against us now,” Jennings admitted.
“We are playing at a different level – but we will continue to take it one game at a time.
“Last weekend’s results proved other teams in this league will take points off each other, but we aren’t going to rely on that and will continue to push forward.
“For this weekend’s game, although Sunbury are second and we are expecting a tough game, we will approach it with the same mentality – and hopefully it will be another step closer to our main goal of winning the league.
“I don’t think Surrey posed a vastly different challenge from when we met them earlier this season.
“They were a little bit better organised compared to the first game, where they were more adventurous and that left a lot of holes at the back we could exploit.
“In this second game they knew what they were facing and went into the game with a damage-limitation attitude.
“They didn’t expect to win but wanted to make it more difficult for us.
“It’s always tough when an opposition plays with 11 players behind the ball, but it was only a matter of time until our superior fitness and technical ability caused them problems.
“I thought we showed great patience throughout the game. Our meandering waves of attack are pleasing to watch, as is the improvement.
“Since the one or two games before Christmas, we have just been getting better and better at being patient and sticking to our flowing style.
“Had it been the first half of season and we found ourselves locked at 0-0 after 25 minutes, we would have panicked and strayed from the process.
“That didn’t happen this time as a result of our patience, which was the most pleasing aspect of the performance.”
The Shots went into the game at Heath End School keen to consolidate their strong league standing after slips-up by some of their closest rivals last week – and had prepared well, using their Wednesday training session for a practice game against the RAF hockey team.
A&F performed well in that game, going toe to toe with a well-drilled side before wearing them down and eventually coming out on top.
This meant confidence was sky high within the squad when Saturday eventually rolled around.
Jennings used his pre-match briefing to highlight the importance of the overall performance and not the final score, asking for patterns to be lifted from the training ground into the match scenario.
However, an errant ball from the Spartans warm-up threatened to derail A&F before the game even began as it connected with the head of a prone Will Giltrow, who has made the left half position his own in his first season with the team.
With Giltrow out of the game, the defence reshuffled, and the game got under way.
A&F immediately settled into their work. The reshuffle at the back didn’t seem to affect them and they squashed any attacks quickly, playing out the majority of the first half in Spartans territory.
Chris Boot and James Treadwell combined regularly in the midfield to allow A&F to cut through Spartans and create chances on goal.
The only thing lacking was a ruthless finishing touch. Scott Perry put an inviting ball across the face of goal but couldn’t find a willing recipient.
The Spartans goalkeeper was also frustrating the A&F forward line as he made a handful of decent saves to keep them at bay.
Most surprising of all was the home side’s penalty corner attack unit, normally so potent, but it too had been unable to break the deadlock.
With ten first-half minutes remaining, it looked as though Spartans might make the safety of the break unscathed. However, the introduction of Jake Combes from the A&F bench ensured this would not be the case.
A flowing move found Perry again out in space on the left-hand side and another good ball into the danger area was this time met by Combes. The opposition keeper made a good reaction stop to keep out the first-time deflection, but Combes finished the rebound, cheekily nutmegging the keeper to break the deadlock.
A&F quickly doubled their lead as the short corner attack found its rhythm and Perry powerfully despatched a drag flick into the bottom left corner.
Only a goal-line clearance prevented a carbon copy from finding the net moments later and kept Spartans close as the half-time whistle went.
Calls for patience dominated the half-time talk as the free-flowing A&F offence was beginning to wear down the Spartans.
More of the same would surely continue to sap the energy from Surrey and create more space for A&F to work in.
A&F, to a man, stuck dutifully to their roles and continued to carry out their game plan which has been so successful across the season.
Their organised and methodical approach was beginning to reap the rewards of the hard work put in during the first half.
Jamie Weston capitalised on the extra space he was afforded at right half to turn in a man-of-the-match performance, distributing the ball effectively to Boot and Treadwell in the screens as well as forward to Stu Morhall, whose aggressive running was allowing him to drive along the baseline effectively to keep building the pressure on the Spartans back line.
As a result, Surrey were struggling to get any sort of foothold in the game and hopes of a comeback were hampered by a number of cards in short succession.
Perry was benefiting from the mounting short-corner count as he was able to finish off a further three in the second half, taking his tally to four for the game and giving A&F a commanding 5-0 lead.
The cheers from the Spartans defence each time a short corner was cleared acted as a testament to his drag-flicking ability.
Only the Surrey goalkeeper seemed determined to keep the score at 5-0 with some strong saves denying A&F from stretching their lead beyond the five goals.
Such was A&F’s dominance that it took until the dying minutes for their own goalkeeper Hamish Hall to be called into action.
Surrey capitalised on some slack passing in the A&F half leading to their first meaningful foray into A&F’s D.
Hall was alert to the danger and made sure of a second consecutive clean sheet and a 5-0 win for the Shots, who remain clear at the summit of the table.
By Kevin McCafferty