little awk question

Hi,

does anyone knows how in awk I can refer to a field that is after a
certain pattern ?
I don't know where the pattern will be so can't use $i, it needs to be
relative to the pattern I matched.
to be more specific:
/ .* route-map/
now I want the next field after "route-map"
NF is also not good, because there can be more stuff after the route-map
I know that perl regexp allows back reference to groups which could have
satisfy this scenario

Thanks